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Originally Posted by Jesse69
Do you think your Resume is being ignored?
I got great 5.75 years experience doing CAD, some engineering, and technical writing. I graduated from the 6th best college in the nation for Mechanical Engineering. I last worked at NASA on the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and Lunar Lander - at the BEST aerospace company you can work for - Jacobs ESCG.
I am being ignored for jobs by companies and recruiters in Chicago... I'm hurting and wondering why? ... Is it because of my felony or am I being blacklisted too?
How are you doing? Feeling the same as me?
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I know of some good employees who had minor run-in's with the law. Their employment lives were made totally miserable. I'm not convinced that the fine print on an application, "... Answering YES does not necessarily disqualify you from employment", is worth the ink used to print it.
NASA? CAD? 5.75 Years? I'd pay money for that kind of background! That kind of experience should keep the cash flowing for some time.
What's worse, if you even tried to exercise any of your "rights" against an employer, you can be black-listed for life. Employers talk to employers, and companies today are vicious and vindictive as ever! Those commercials you see on TV by law offices telling you that you have rights are total bunk. I am sooooo sorry that I filed a complaint against a former company. I should have just let them have their way with me, and moved on. I go on one interview after another, and never hear from the interviewing employer again - this happens shortly after they ask me who my former supervisor was.
The takeaway: think about the possible consequences before you do *anything*. If you get in trouble with the law, you get screwed. If you sue a former employer for harassment or something, you had better be darn well make sure that you are going to win and get enough compensation so that you won't ever have to work again - because the chances of getting employed again are going to be slim and none. Our rights in general have been eroded over the past few decades, and employment rights are not exempt. This advice is probably too late for anybody reading this post, but I thought it was worth posting.
This world isn't reality anyway. It can't be...