You Can Leave a Job If Your Boss Yells at You for Being a Buddhist
In college I held down a variety of mind numbing jobs. Waitress, receptionist, library clerk, quality control assistant, and eventually a job at American Family Insurance as an office assistant. This office was run by a married couple in Indiana. The husband was a robust evangelical Christian man and his wife was a nervous, meek, albeit neurotic woman. They had a frenetic energy that was hard to keep up with. The husband would generate the leads and his wife would make the follow up calls and lock people into their life insurance plans. I just put things in file cabinets and did some light data entry. I was putting my creative skills to very good use. From the beginning they made it clear to me that they were Christians and that they believed I should be as well. I was 20 years old and I really didn't have a religious upbringing, I told them. I was still exploring how I felt about religion. I told them about a bible camp I attended when I was 16 with a friend where our watches we