By: himani

In reply to Holly. naturequeer-Erin & @hollycascade -- thanks so much for sharing this! I don't have experience working in either of your fields so I really appreciate your broadening the scope of this conversation and sharing your experiences. You both also brought up great points I didn't think about explicitly before, that having a good boss makes SUCH a difference. It does feel a little like finding a needle in a haystack, but if a person manage to find a job with a good one it can offer some much needed reprieve from the bull shit. To the point about getting an unarguable amount of experience or award -- I think you're right about this but it really does become a long game at that point. Personally, I haven't yet found that alone to be sufficient because people still probe about my title at previous positions or my degree or other nonsense instead of looking at my experience for what it is. But I also haven't been working for *that* long in the scheme of things. Same thing with objectively proving that one is more qualified.