How It All Happened

Here's my Story, and I'm sticking to it.

I have sold life insurance for the past two and a half years. If you think that sounds boring, I promise you its a lot worse than it sounds. I won't say which company I worked for, but I will say that they have a famous spokesperson and commercials that come on cable at weird hours. 

I never liked my job, it was a paycheck. I had incompetent bosses, and frankly the intellectual level of the management was quite shockingly low. E-mails from supervisors were full of spelling mistakes and grammar errors, and my manager (the boss' boss) spelled the word hire "hier". The only upsides were the precious few of my colleagues who I could have intelligent conversations with. Those people know who they are because I've talked to them after leaving. That and one of my best friends works there too. He's jealous that I got fired!!

My termination was a long time coming. I was on numerous write-ups for my call quality. Its hard to get good scores when you have no idea what they are scoring you on! So when they called me into HR, I was not surprised.

I've never been fired before. Every job I have left, I left on my own terms. I did not know what I was going to do with all my free time. Then I decided to fulfill a dream. I have always been a student of History, and had a special interest in the Holocaust. I found out that Gratz College out of Melrose Park, PA has a mostly-online M.A. program in Holocaust in Genocide Studies. I decided to apply. As I was writing that past sentence, I got my acceptance letter!! YAY!! So I am going back to school and job searching. The point of this blog is to take a look at the modern-day job search and life of an unemployed over-educated, gay, white, Jewish man, in the City of Brotherly Love (Philly for those who don't know). I'll try to update often!

What am I doing now? Well I am taking 3 courses this summer. The first is a full summer online course entitled "Popes, Jews, and Blood" the other 2 are week-long courses. One is on Jewish Art, the other is on "Teaching the Holocaust" those occur in July.

Right now I'm writing a 5-7 page paper comparing and contrasting 3 trial transcripts from the Spanish Inquisition. Fun right?

I hope you enjoy reading this!