Saturday, 14 March 2009

• Rejections: 3

  I can't believe I'm writing this!
  
  "Dear Recruit :
  We have currently identified enough candidates for our fire crew postitions this season. Unfortunately you have not been selected. However, due to our lower number of forecasted vacancies we have decided to create a small waiting list for lack of a better term. You have been selected to this list based on your efforts put forth throught the application process. The competition was very strong this season..."

  Well, yes I can believe this. As soon as I opened the letter, I knew that it would contain the word unfortunately. What does Fortune have to do with this? Honestly if it was Fortune, then I vote we roll the dice again. I missed three days of school, spent several days and hundreds of dollars recertifying first aid in stupid Calgary of all places, and my family flew me out to BC for my interview and fitness test. And so what? I suppose I am on a waiting list. Still, I am ashamed that I put so much into it, for nothing to come of it. Come to think of it, if the Fire Service was a man, they would be the worst boyfriend ever: expecting me to wait for months while they decide if they want me, not calling me back, breaking up with me in an email, then saying there may or may not be a chance in May for me, but I really shouldn't count on it...I should have ended it before it came to this.

  And I suppose that Dr Seuss, had he tried out for fire fighting, would have been rejected, and perhaps 28 times, before he was accepted. This is, after all, only my first year trying.

   

   

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