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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 03:21 PM Jun 2013

I can feel for the spy in 'Burn Notice'.

If unfamiliar with the show, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Notice

I feel like I have an academic burn notice. First the start of the Great Rescission making it hard to do full payments all the time, then the Tornado wiping me out and taking me out of circulation, as well as taking my transcripts, I am finding it hard to get a job that they can take the money from without placing me back on the street.

They will not send me my transcripts till I start paying them. I can not find a job that I can afford to pay them without it.

The Stanford Loan guys have "repoed" my transcripts till I can pay them or till I get SS so they can take that.

Now the transcript thing would not be so much a problem if I was still in the old Joplin. People knew me and I knew them. But most every I knew are gone, some dead. Add to it I am in Tucson. I have no contacts in Tucson.

Oh, and when a place does a Background Check, my education comes up, so I have to add it the the application ( if I don't and they see it, it looks bad). So many places know that if and when a good job comes up, I'm bailing. They need people, even the Fast Food guys, that will be there for a while.

I try to tell them I will be due to all the work I have to do to get back what I lost. But they just don't seem to want to chance it.

Other places where I can work ( and make decent pay) needs the transcripts.

It is no wonder we have a huge Student Debt problem in this country. First with the stunts Bush pulled to hurt the economy, now with the Loans guys (in my words) 'repoing' what people need to get the type of paying jobs to pay them back.

The Loan guys don't care what happened to cause you problems, they want their money (understandably). But they can't get their money till I (and other I am sure are in very similar boats) get the jobs we need to afford to again!

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I can feel for the spy in 'Burn Notice'. (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 OP
Not even as simple production help? Knightraven Jun 2013 #1
I am fighting with the kids at the U of A for those spots. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #3
I suggest you leave off your education if it's hurting you to include it. pnwmom Jun 2013 #2
Tried that. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #4
It didn't work with one employer but that doesn't mean it won't with others. pnwmom Jun 2013 #5
It wasn't just one. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #6

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
3. I am fighting with the kids at the U of A for those spots.
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 03:40 PM
Jun 2013

I know you know this, but it is not what you know, but WHO you know.

Those kids have professors that know people. So I need to go for a full time so my experience can outshine the newbies.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
2. I suggest you leave off your education if it's hurting you to include it.
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 03:37 PM
Jun 2013

Most background checks won't uncover it. If they do and it "looks bad" you're no worse off than if they didn't hire you because they thought you were over-educated.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
5. It didn't work with one employer but that doesn't mean it won't with others.
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:13 PM
Jun 2013

And they're no worse off than if they didn't hire you in the first place because you had the credential.

My brother routinely leaves off his advanced degree, since it doesn't help him either.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
6. It wasn't just one.
Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:40 PM
Jun 2013

I left it off several applications. And some of them were nice enough to send e-mails back telling me that they found that I left out critical information. They let me know that I could redo the Application on line with all my education listed.

And I did that. Still now word.

So, I wait. I hope.

I am thinking of when the college get going again, even if a do land a part time. I may not have the paperwork but I do have the know how. There are people desperate enough for a tutor they can afford when it comes to such things as understanding English, literature, history, legal briefs, list goes on.

See, I took something MSSU called 'Mass Communications'. It had a lot of hours to complete. I learned Marketing, Journalism, Public Relations, Speech Writing, Advertising, Story Writing, Verbal & Non Verbal Communication, pretty much anything that has to do with people Communicating. Most courses would need 124 to graduate. for me to finish, I had to take 133 (not counting prerequisites). I also was able to keep my grade point average so to keep my membership in Phi Eta Sigma. I was able to get my my membership credentials back for that.

So if they want me on a "burn notice", I'll just find a way to use my skills in other ways.

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