Marching Into The Peace Corps – Part One
by Everyone at one time or another considers joining the Peace Corps, but of all the sites on the web, no one talks about their journey to enlist. Follow this writer’s journey through the process of mental and physical transformation in pursuit of a goal.
I was about to apply at a local grocery store chain when I read in the newspaper how they’re doing credit checks as well as personality testing. It’s hard trying to get someone to trust you with bad credit, but I’ve got to tell you, I’ve flunked every single personality test I’ve ever taken for Texas companies. I’m not sure what that really means to an employer, but it’s like flunking an opinion or urine test in my book! I will confess to having flunked an opinion test in college, but I was a screaming Republican during the 1996 takeover of Congress, while my professor was a Socialist from England. That I could understand, but flunking out at a grocery store? How much lower can you go! I couldn’t bring myself to go through that kind of humiliation.
My circumstances came about from being outsourced twice. I watched helplessly as my jobs were shipped to India. In both cases, I worked hard and didn’t fraternize, and observed with dismay as the incompetent kiss ups kept their jobs. Sometimes I wish I had the kiss up gene, but I wasn’t born with it. As time has gone by, I have heard from friends most of the kiss ups have since been fired and the companies are in trouble as a result of their bad policies. One such company I worked at had the ethics of a termite infested tree stump; they are under investigation by the state regulating entity and have lost at least 30% of their business.
Whenever I was lucky enough to land an interview, I made a point to ask the interviewer about the response to the posting. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the average response was 160 applicants per job; post Katrina it skyrocketed as high as 600 applicants for two positions! Even those with perfect credit have found the job market to be a tough row to hoe.
The million dollar question is obvious: how do you land a job with bad credit so you can pay your bills when no one will hire you because you’re a theft risk? I don’t have the answer, but I do have God on my side. I have to trust what He’s allowing to happen has a purpose that will bring glory to His name. Just because I can’t see it doesn’t mean greater things aren’t coming my way. God has turned around the circumstances of those much worse off than me.
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