Living next to D.C., I’ve applied for jobs in the federal government and met with nothing but total failure.
For a long time I thought that I was the problem, that I was the total loser, notwithstanding outstanding grades and other qualifications.
Eventually I realized that I was not the problem, that people like me simply are rarely hired. There is not a blacklist of individual persons, but there is a blacklist of sorts of types of persons.
Now, in one sense, I was the problem — I was stupid enough to put my experience with pro-life groups and other conservative groups on my resume. Then I was stupid enough to put in my church-related experience. But had I not, then there would be a big hole in my work experience.
There is a cost to maintaining one’s principles and to acting on them.
