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Old 03-24-2013, 09:43 PM
 
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To me, that survey was risibly shocking and ridiculous. If there is an explanation, it is because the slow Midwestern pace of life is agreeable to some people, and that extends to the workplace. That is not my preference.
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Old 03-25-2013, 11:00 PM
 
Location: East Dayton, OH
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Thanks for the kind comment about my post. I can definitely see how people become disenfranchised with the place they've lived the longest. I was born in New York, left, and returned, and judged it harshly. I was and am aware of that. But it's also true that the job I acquired in Dayton is my very first in the health care industry, aside from making much less than is even believable on a number of published essays on various behavioral health topics. While I am continuing my education in psych so I can work in the capacity I want to (Sinclair is quite close, which is a great way to get requirements for a doctoral degree done at a low cost!), I feel lucky to have even acquired work in a field I previously had no "formal" experience in (or, rather, have the type of "formal" experience that doesn't typically lead to jobs in mental health, so to speak!). You really need to make a case for yourself anywhere, but it seems tenable in Dayton that you'll have the opportunity to do so with someone closer to or actually in the position to hire you. That was my experience anyway. After ages of unemployment. It's hard everywhere. I won't deny it. Some of it's luck; right place/right time. But some of it is really, really, really not backing down, no matter what. It feels more possible here, I suppose.

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