Before i incur the wrath of the "pick yourself up by your own bootstraps" crowd, my goal was not to say "poor me", even though that might have been how it came out. I'm not trying to get advice, or someone to offer me a job. All i was trying to say was that there are more people like me out there, loads of people that are still pretty darn intelligent but look horrible on paper.
Personally i'm sick of the whole process and all of the fakeness involved in trying to land a job. If you're unconventional, you better be good at faking looking conventional so you can get a job, otherwise you're out of luck. Not for me.
If a business is having trouble finding qualified candidates for a position, maybe they should spend a little more time considering that it might not be that there's a lack of people that can do a good job in that position, but that their conception of what makes a "qualified candidate" is overly restrictive and broken.
Personally i'm sick of the whole process and all of the fakeness involved in trying to land a job. If you're unconventional, you better be good at faking looking conventional so you can get a job, otherwise you're out of luck. Not for me.
If a business is having trouble finding qualified candidates for a position, maybe they should spend a little more time considering that it might not be that there's a lack of people that can do a good job in that position, but that their conception of what makes a "qualified candidate" is overly restrictive and broken.