exercise caution in your business, for the world is full of trickery Well, due to the comings and goings and basic craziness that is markham middle school, I still have yet to receive my Mohawk. I feel like a poser already, with kids asking me “Mr. G, when are you gonna get your Mohawk?” I can only say, “I dunno, soon”.

I guess companies that you don’t want to work for still get to reject you. After telling company X that I would only work for X amount money and benefits, I pretty much told them I wasn’t interested. One week later, I get an email saying “….great candidate, but we can’t find a match for you skillset…bla..bla..bla” I almost wanted to write her back, saying, “isn’t it unfortunate that your company is willing to not pay me what I deserve, knowing that I can pretty much kick ass at the job?”

But, their decision makes sense. Why hire someone with some experience, but a total lack of blind devotion to a company when you can hire a well educated, green, yes-man or woman?
I understand that they want that. Hell, I did Teach for America, it’s a corporate job in a non-profits skin. Of course, their mission is superb, but the environment, if you took away the contextual situation of our mission, it would be just like GM, or IBM.
You need smart kids who can think for themselves, but not too much. I still have a lot of respect for company X, and I’m a bit sad that I won’t work for them, but living in LA is hard enough on the measly teacher salary I make.

This was my first experience with the for-profit sector. I have a feeling it won’t be my last, but I’m happy to know that I won’t sell my self short. Well, at least not too short.  ¶ 12/02/2005 05:16:00 PM