I don't really know what to think any more. All these people who've spent 10, 20 even 30 years in the Co$, and to think I woke up and got out in two years.
Perhaps I had the benefit of having broken another religious shackle before encountering Scn.
For those who've lost their youth to this unseemly practical joke, I can only express sorrow.
I guess it's just like jail in a sense--if you've spent all your life inside, and manage to get out at 40+, how do you recover the lost living skills? How do you start a new life when all the foundation has just been ripped from under you?
How do you go about getting a job when your résumé consists solely of the "Sea Org"?
"Um, yeah, I know how to stand still while you yell inane profanities at me. Is that a skill I can use in a new job?"
or
"I've spent years eating beans and rice. Maybe I could open a restaurant?"
Good question, you could try something like this, or simply say who you worked for and what posts you held and experience you have:
Additional work experience:
Beginning 1997 – beginning of 2003 I worked in the UK and Copenhagen (Denmark) on renovating/restoring houses.
Beginning 1986 – end 1996, After I graduated school in Germany in 1986 I lived in Copenhagen, sharing accommodation with friends, and from there I went to stay in different countries, several months at a time, to do different types of office work, work experience and temp jobs in countries like the USA, UK, South Africa, South America and several European countries. That way, I got a very good working knowledge and experience with office/secretarial work over this 10 year period. This work included: basic administration, reception and switchboard handling, doing filing, laminations, photocopies, lots of typing, arranging couriers, logging of deliveries and stocktaking, handling the mail, etc.; collection of information and reports from different departments to do end of the week reports, etc.
During that time, for example, I worked in a company which dealt with providing a service to offices to store information in the computer (about clients etc.) rather than on paper. While doing the same type of reception and office work there several times as a temp job, I was also asked to train new staff after a while, which included to grove them in on the actual use of the computer data storage system and to train them on taking calls and doing basic administration work. I had to supervise about 4-6 staff at a time. I also arranged conferences for executives, took minutes of meetings, typed up weekly reports and chased up reports of meetings for executives.
I know how to use Microsoft Windows, different computer data storage systems and several e-mail systems. I also did some practical and theory management, marketing and customer services courses (including trips to Los Angeles for those courses).
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so, What you think??
It worked for me.... I did get your point though, and I found it rather hard the first couple of years to adjust and kinda use the "converted" form of work that I had done and find the good in what I got out of it, and take it from there....