While I do understand the need for good credit working certain jobs, I can't understand it for some. If I were applying to be a loan officer or something, sure I could understand it but I'm not. There is a job opening for a 911 dispatcher in my county. It's a job which I know I would be good at. I know medical terminology and first aid, which would be an asset to that job. Others they hire do not have one bit of medical exp., and this I know to be fact. I know 2 dispatchers. One now works in a title loan shop and the other in a BP gas station. I can pass the criminal history check, the polygraph yet I can not pass their credit check. OK I have a chapter 7 now on my credit. Yes things happened to us, and it was our only way out at the time. It was one of those things where we were drowning, and could not see the top of the water. We did what needed to be done to stop 1/2 of my husbands check from going to some shady collector who has changed names a dozen times in 3 years.
I really wanted that job. I'd be working nights, but that's fine with me. It's making decent money(for a woman) and has good benefits, which I badly need right now. I guess it's just frustrating because I know that I'd be a damn hard workers who would be a positive asset to the county. I also wouldn't send the police to the wrong house, as I know my county like the back of my hand. I have lived here all of my life. I say that because a 911 dispatcher in another county close by sent the ambulance, fire truck and police to the wrong address and a woman died in the process.
OK well that's my gripe for the day. I guess I will look for a restaurant job somewhere, even though I can not be on my feet all day due to my rare medical condition that only gets worse with age.