Shared this on the blog tonight and will share it here also... I have never talked about what happened to me at my only other professional job that Iāve held after graduating with my Masterās degree because it was a very painful experience that had to do with my weight. I graduated in May 2007 and then was hired at this job in January 2008 and worked there until September 2009. But it is also an experience that pushed me to finally do something about my weight and pursue weight loss surgery. I worked at a place for about a year and a half, during this time I reached my heaviest weight ever of 418 pounds and I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 26. After working there for awhile my boss started to treat me differently and would constantly tell me that I had a horrible odor coming from me, one that only her and one of my co-workers ever commented about. I went to doctor after doctor to see if there was a reason I had an odor but every time they said they didnāt notice anything. One day she told me that it wasnāt working out (after a year and a half) and that my smell had become too much, she suggested that I mutually agree to terminate my employment. I was so upset and cried like crazy. I tried to get unemployment but was denied. I was already depressed during this job having recently been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder in 2009. I didnāt find out until 2011 that was not the case. All that happened to me at once and it was the final push I needed to try to change my life so it March 2010 I meet with my surgeon for the first time. Since this event I havenāt even really tired to get another professional job even though I am qualified for so much more than I have done. Iāve been scared and have been hiding behind jobs that are considered unemployed to me. You would never know by my work history that I have to degrees in community health education and that I was president of Kent Stateās health education honorary one year. You would never know about my internship at a local health department in college. I donāt talk about these things because I donāt think they matter since no one has ever hired me for anything. That was the one job I got offered and you saw what happened. After being let go from there I never tired to look for a professional job again because I was afraid of history repeating itself. But starting today I will never hide again. I will go into every interview with my head held high, I will speak of all my amazing qualities, I will show them who I truly am. No more hiding!
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:13:45 +0000
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