WORK

I'm having problems with my internet but hopefully be able to post a real blog later.  I'm headed off to work soon to fill in for someone who is sick, and Lord knows we need the money!  With my job and the type of work that it is, it can become very stressful.  The hardest part is not dealing with the inmates but in all actuallty dealing with my coworkers.  Being a small town in southern Alabama their is not only racism with "colored" people but for a "homosexual" as myself.  It seems I'm not based on my job performance but my sexuality instead. My first night/shift I heard "the N word, homo/queer, and half breed!"  And this was in the first few hours being there.  In the state of Florida their jobs would have been taken from them.  For the first few months I kept my "life" as a secret.  Doing my best to prove myself as a person that knows and loves her job.  My six months probation period is up so now I feel I can "be myself."  I dont run around waving rainbow flags and I am not ashamed of who I am.  People just fear what they can not understand and the "unknown."  Yet still as human beings we want and feel the need of being accepted.