<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Before I was able to support myself as a writer, I took a lot of temp jobs. Rather than do office work, I took a two-week class and earned a Fork Lifting License. It paid the same (sometimes better) than entry-level clerical work, was a lot of fun, and left me plenty of time to think about plotlines as I worked, since shifting boxes doesn’t require a lot of mental power. (Secretarial work, although excruciatingly dull, requires just enough thought to make other mental activity difficult.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On one job, I made the mistake of mentioning my college degree to my employer. I was fired the next day.</div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:46 AM, James Clement <<a href="mailto:clementlawyer@gmail.com" class="">clementlawyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Many organizations select against intelligence, saying that a more intelligent, experienced, or skilled person would probably only stay in the job temporarily until something else came along. Several decades ago I applied for various warehouse-type jobs as an experiment where in some applications I included and in others excluded my membership in MENSA, higher education, and job experiences which included running my own businesses and being a practicing lawyer. I received no interviews for menial jobs in which I'd listed my actual qualifications. The quickest positive response I experienced was related to an application where I simply left almost everything blank, indicating almost no education or experience. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Here's an article (among many) which describes how many police departments select against high IQ for their candidates:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-police-departments-refuse-hire-smart/" class="">http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-police-departments-refuse-hire-smart/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">James </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>