2015. április 21., kedd
Coming Out Professionally
So I’ve been out out for about 5 years now. Friends, family, classmates when it comes up. However as I’m about to finish my graduate program and attempt eke out a living doing policy work I wonder how to address my sexuality with employers and others in the field. I have the blessing (read: curse) of being masculine presenting, so I could “hide” it, but my time in leading a GSA just spits at the very concept of tacitly feigning heterosexuality. While I know being gay isn’t going to magically afford me some benefit, I’d hate to hide an important side of myself for the sake of getting along better with some people professionally, or perhaps I'm being too vain. I already took the (chicken-shit) step of changing my twitter bio so that it explicitly states that I’m gay, but I feel like I should do more, y’know?How have other people dealt with this situation in their lives? I’d hate to remain in the closet professionally, but with job hunting and entering the “real workforce” looming ever nearer I’d hate for my sexuality to be another thing to be anxious over.
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