April 5, 2010

Another Attempt: Government jobs?

Posted in Update tagged , , , , at 11:04 pm by Kyle Kratky

This is a looking-ahead post, so updates regarding my First Attempt will not be found here.  Except for this sole bit: it is coming along, but interviewing family can be HARD.

I’m thinking about what I will do for my Second and Third Attempts, and tonight I met at a local diner with an old friend, where she recounted for me her attempts to get rehired with her old government job.  Her efforts have been, thus far, fruitless.  She left this job amicably some time ago, and the reason she can’t get rehired is because of a completely automated scoring system.  A computer somewhere has it out for her.

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February 26, 2010

Unwinding after initial interview

Posted in Progress, Research & Development tagged , , , at 12:21 pm by Kyle Kratky

This entry is probably going to read a bit like a journal, my friends, so if you are expecting something literary or polished, you won’t find it here.  I’m unwinding from last night.

I am looking into writing my Second Attempt about gay conversion therapy and attempts.  Last night I met with someone sound out this Second Attempt.

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February 22, 2010

My Second Attempt?

Posted in Research & Development tagged , at 1:31 pm by Kyle Kratky

This Thursday night I am meeting with a man who went through homosexual conversion therapy (that’s therapy where you are conditioned/treated/trained to go from having homosexual thoughts and desires to heterosexual thoughts and desires).  I’m nervous to speak with this total stranger about something so personal and powerful, but I really just want to go there and hear his story.  I want to know what life was like before his therapy and what made him decide to do it.  I want to know what the therapy was like and how he felt during it.  I want to know what life is like now and whether he feels like he is cured or if it is something he fights constantly.

If this goes well, I’d like this to be my Second Attempt.  We will see.

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