http://savannahkestrel.livejournal.com/ (
savannahkestrel.livejournal.com) wrote in
trans2005-10-15 12:46 am
Eyeheh.
Heya, this is
sekoumoja /
zeldakestrel.. New journal now.
I've recently been thrust onto the job market and want to enter my next job more as myself.. I'm just really nervous / unsure how to bring something up with any future employer.. Should I fill out the application as per normal? Show up looking the opposite they expected? I have had times in the past where I'm on the phone and I give them my name and they keep calling me Miss or Ma'am.. And a few times at the bank where they didn't accept my ID, thought I was my sister trying to pull a stupid ruse; That was an interesting day. But I'm just not sure what the best / smartest way to bring this up with an employer who very well may need to educated on the sheer definition of "transgender" let alone any implications it may have with me as an employee? When I got my job at Vons I was pretty normal looking.. but now it's sometimes difficult for me to pass as a guy at all, so I would think it'd be easier to show an employer that I am not so strange in appearance as one might sterotypically assume.. Maybe it would be better not to even bring it up? I don't know..
Thanks for any tips you can give.
Go CSI.
"Arrive as a couple, leave as a couple.
No videos or photos.
No affairs.
And the kids must never know." x_
I've recently been thrust onto the job market and want to enter my next job more as myself.. I'm just really nervous / unsure how to bring something up with any future employer.. Should I fill out the application as per normal? Show up looking the opposite they expected? I have had times in the past where I'm on the phone and I give them my name and they keep calling me Miss or Ma'am.. And a few times at the bank where they didn't accept my ID, thought I was my sister trying to pull a stupid ruse; That was an interesting day. But I'm just not sure what the best / smartest way to bring this up with an employer who very well may need to educated on the sheer definition of "transgender" let alone any implications it may have with me as an employee? When I got my job at Vons I was pretty normal looking.. but now it's sometimes difficult for me to pass as a guy at all, so I would think it'd be easier to show an employer that I am not so strange in appearance as one might sterotypically assume.. Maybe it would be better not to even bring it up? I don't know..
Thanks for any tips you can give.
Go CSI.
"Arrive as a couple, leave as a couple.
No videos or photos.
No affairs.
And the kids must never know." x_