i hope that your kid ends up unemployed because of me.

why would you expect me to show up to an interview as male-identifying?

i've been female identifying for twenty years.

of course i'm going to wear makeup.

i don't even have male clothes...

wanna hire me for a few weeks?

i really just don't want a full time job.

Jason/Jessica Parent

Windsor, Ontario

Postal Code:

Phone:

death.to.koalas@gmail.com

ODSP

Post-Traumatic Stress & Social Anxiety Disorder & Gender Dysphoria                                                  February, 2013 - Present

• Moved to Windsor in Aug, 2013.

Carleton University                                                                                          September, 2008  -  May, 2013

Computer Science & Law (BSc / BA) & Mathematics (Masters)

• 19.5/20 credits in Computer Science. Did not pursue further due to lack of interest.
• 15/20 credits in Law. Did not pursue further due to lack of interest.
• Did not formally apply to graduate, after completing more than five credits in mathematics at the graduate level from 2003-2013.

R.A. Malatest and Associates                                                                                                               April, 2008 - July, 2008

Survey Interviewer (Outbound/Survey) and General Office Worker                          

• Outbound cold calling, both business and residential.
• Contacted diverse individuals by phone and asked them to complete surveys over the phone.
• Faxing, typing, data entry, spreadsheet, proofreading, general quality control.
• Applications Used: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Mozilla Firefox, Windows XP, Google Docs

Hewlett-Packard                                                                                                                             September, 2007 – March, 2008

Help Desk Agent for AT&T Employees (Inbound/Support)

• Network Troubleshooting: VPN, ISP, Wireless, 3G, Cellular, Global Network Client.
• Software Troubleshooting:  Windows, Office, Acrobat, McAfee, Outlook. 
• Acting Active Directory Administrator on AT&T machines.
• Orchestrated the deployment of local technicians to solve issues related to large network outages.
• Applications used: Internet Explorer, Office Outlook, Notepad, Jabber, AT&T Global Network Client.

 Microsoft                                                                                                                                         November, 2006 – August, 2007

Windows Vista Level 2 Technical Support Agent (Outbound/Support/Research/Supervisory)

• Researched and solved escalated issues relating to the installation and use of Windows Vista.
• Contacted users to help them implement the determined solution.
• Provided resulting information for inclusion into the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
• Took some inbound calls when irate customers demanded to speak to Level 2 Techs.
• Supervisory: Assigned newly escalated cases to other Level 2 agents, rescheduled and reassigned missed or tardy callbacks, compiled nightly statistical reports.
• Applications used: Microsoft CAP, Office Outlook, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Excel, Windows Live (Search, Messenger, Hotmail), Sysinternals Tools, Various Microsoft Tools, Windows Vista, Microsoft Knowledge Base.

 Compaq                                                                                                                                       September, 2006 – November, 2006

Level 1 Technical Support Representative (Inbound/Support)

• Logical hardware troubleshooting.
• Ordered replacements for malfunctioning parts.
• Some software troubleshooting.
• Applications used: Clarify, Internet Explorer, Citrix, HP Knowledge Base.

Carleton University                                                                                       September, 2000  - August, 2006

B. Mathematics (Honours)

• Took some semesters off.
• Was also enrolled as a physics student, an english student & a gender studies student.

so, i think i'm better off trying something like this...

- i've been on odsp since 2013 for ptsd & sad.
- i'm going to try working, to see if i can handle it
- i'm going to not be able to handle it. at all.

that could help with the renewal when it comes up, too.

i'm not being dishonest, i'm just helping the process along. there's no value in forcing me to flip burgers when i could be making art.

actually, i should get fired instead of quitting.

if i can't find anything before august 1st, i'll take a part time job - like 10-20 hours a week..

that should increase my monthly income to over $1500, making it hard for anybody to deny me of a $700-800 apartment.

then, once i sign a lease for september or october, i'll quit the job.

i have to play the stupid game, and i didn't write the stupid rules.

yeah.

i can solve equations you've never heard of; i can't drive a car.

i don't think that's unusual, amongst people that can solve these kinds of equations.

if i had gotten my license normally like the other kids around me, i think there's a relatively high chance i'd have killed somebody by now.

you still don't get it.

and, i'll state this again, if you didn't get it the first twenty times.

i do not believe that i'm psychologically capable of safely operating a motorized vehicle.

that's not why i don't have a license; i made a moral choice to keep my carbon footprint down, and decided against it.

there is no legal reason that i couldn't learn how to drive.

but, i have never driven a car before. seriously....

...and i think that this is in the best interests of everybody.

it's a non-issue; i can't drive. deal with it.

if i end up in another situation where i'm surrounded by drug addicts and drunks, i'm just going to get into another fight and sue the landlord and have to move.

and, it really shouldn't be so fucking difficult to find a drug-free place to live, regardless of income.

i actually want to live in a very conservative building, with a very conservative landlord. no smoking. no drinking. no drugs. no parties. no music after 10:00. etc.

if i want to go to a party, i want to go out somewhere. i don't want it in my living space; i want my living space to be quiet, clean and free of intoxicants. somewhere to retreat to, to relax in, to think in, to create in - not somewhere to get fucked up in.

i think i've been crystal clear about that.

if you're just cluing in now, you weren't paying attention.

her business model is obviously on the brink of failure; the tenants she wants don't exist. instead, we've got units sitting empty forever, and homeless shelters at capacity.

stupid.

so, you've got city council changing the laws to try and ease the market. what they really need to do is go after marda.

eventually...

....but, i only have three months.

...and it even seems like i'm the only person that even wants to.

somebody that's working full time is going to want a nice apartment, and there's more than enough supply. i'm not looking at nice units here, i'm looking at old dilapidated dumps. the whole point of moving here was that there was an oversupply of substandard housing at below market rent. so, then this dumb wench shows up and starts buying up old units and jacking up the rent, so they end up sitting empty. and, she keeps buying more and more up.

i have not seen this woman's assets, but i suspect she's sitting on a bubble and that things will crash here once it finally bursts.

there's not an actual shortage of low-income housing, here - there's a problem with a specific management company buying up old units and keeping low income people out of them.

to an extent, it's supply side economics - instead of adjusting the rent to the market, they're trying to create some kind of idealized tenant to adhere to the prices they pull out of their asses. then, they make stupid arguments about percentages of income - and, to the extent that they have a point, misunderstand that the problem is that they're charging too much in rent.

if you want to make these arguments, the proper deduction is that these units should come down 25-30% to meet my income, not that i can't afford to live in them - because i can.

and, that's the point, right?

these units sit forever, because they're looking for tenants that don't want to live in them - and rejecting tenants that do want to live in them.

if i actually did make $2000/month, i wouldn't be looking for a run down place for $750, i'd be looking to spend $1800 on a really nice apartment.

or, looking to buy property....

because what the fuck else am i going to spend $2000/month on?

i need space.

& i need a certain level of security.

the options she'll provide me are simply not good enough.

as it is, if i have to wait until october to find something, so be it.

but, what am i going to do? get this woman on the phone and lecture her for an hour on anarchism?

i'd probably have this sorted out by now, if she wasn't ruining the market.

it will be a cold day in hell before i buy a pair of jeans in a store...

so, i mean, you could write me a check for $30,000 and tell me to spend it on clothes, and i'd still go to the second-hand store.

i buy clothes second hand for moral reasons - i won't support the labour put into creating new clothes.

honestly.

i'm not exaggerating.

i'd end up buying greyhound tickets to go to concerts in toronto, or something.

i have no use for that kind of spending money.

it would be one thing if the only thing i could afford was a room.

but, i can easily afford a nice two bedroom apartment - and they're telling me they won't rent to me because i won't have enough pocket change to waste on beer and popcorn. and, it's no doubt a consequence of some stupid concept of hierarchy.

it's the stupidity of it that i'm constantly enraged by.

i'd no doubt end up spending the money on concerts and gear.

but, i wouldn't have anywhere to put the gear. so, what's the point?

the reality is that i'm perfectly content to spend up to 80% of my income on rent, because i don't know what else to spend it on, anyways.

there's no listings today, so i'm stuck thinking about this stupid property management company again, and it's just really frustrating that they're putting through these income screening checks.

let's imagine i take a small apartment for something like $600/month.

this would be my budget:

rent: $600
food: $200
estrogen: $20
internet: $30
laundry: $20
============
$870

ok.

but, my income is $1215.

that would leave me with $345 a month to spend on....what, exactly?

i don't smoke.
i don't drink.
i don't have a driver's license (and don't want a car).
i don't watch tv.
i don't want a cell phone.
i don't have or want kids.
i don't want to date.
i'd rather make my own meals, thank you.

should i start donating money to charity? sponsor a kid from africa?

i honestly wouldn't know what to do with that money. and, if i'm stuck in a 300 square foot apartment, i wouldn't have space to buy things, anyways.

i don't need more spending money, i'm fine as i am, i need somewhere to stay that's big enough to put my stuff in and safe enough to keep it in. and, they have places that are acceptable, but i don't pass the screening, so they won't call me.

see, and this doesn't help them, either, because they end up with units sitting empty.

it's just an all around stupid way to manage property - by enforcing frankly absurd assumptions, they're actively preventing people from renting spaces they'd be happy in.

at least i'm awake, now.

this move has been a disaster. i am not going to record a single note here...

,....but if i can at least get all the writing in order, i will have accomplished something.

that needs to be my goal, for the next however long it takes to get out of here.