I will be getting my college degree (well it is a certificate, but I already have a 2-year degree) and this is to help me get a job. I have worked for my whole life and have excellent what-all (references, work history, health, skills, communication) to get a job, now that I have this training (almost) under my belt. I finish the college work at the end of this year, 2013. The jobs I had held in the past, have mostly gone away, so I got to retrain.
Also, my braces are scheduled to be removed at the same time as I finish my college work.
Here's the question of you young ones and older ones, and especially if any of you work in the hiring offices. Due to the road I have been on, I will be much more qualified for a position than most people. However, I am over age 60. I don't look it--people think I am younger and if I craft a good resume, the math won't give me away for age. Oh, the question: DO I KEEP MY BRACES ON?
My bookkeeper friend said to "keep the braces on" because I look "much younger" with them on, she said; so to keep them on until I get a job. I plan to dress nice for my job interviews, put on lots of hair dye, and leave the walker home. (No, I don't really have a walker. I am quite spry
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Would the braces actually give me some sort of psychological edge in getting a job? Would the orthodontist work with me and allow me to keep them on for a while when treatment is completed? If so, I would plan to ask for a couple of months....
Please if anyone can advise me. I've gotten really good grades and this has been a really good opportunity for me, the schooling. It was hard though. Incidentally, no I am not crazy to get private pay braces when I am unemployed, but I had already signed the contract FOR the braces, when the layoff notice came. I could have squirmed out of the contract but that's not genteel, it is not. I could barely afford them after wanting them for so long; and then to get laid off? Well, the die was cast.
So here I am and I do hope many of you will give me your remarks and advice. Braces ON until I am hired; or braces OFF and just look like a normal person BUT WITH STRAIGHT TEETH! I don't mean to be hogging up the labor pool at my advanced age, but I really don't have much choice.
Thank you so much!
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