My Rejections – Employment and Personal by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I just received another rejection on Zoosk. That made me think about the myriad rejections I have hand to face head on in my life. Here are some of my employment rejections:

  1. Auburn University – Multiple Rejections
  2. Columbus State University – Multiple Rejections
  3. Georgia Tech – Multiple Rejections
  4. LaGrange College – Multiple Rejections
  5. West Georgia Technical College – Multiple Rejections, but earned one job
  6. West Georgia University – Multiple Rejections
  7. Central Intelligence Agency – Multiple Rejections
  8. Federal Bureau of Investigation – One Rejection
  9. NASA – Multiple Rejections
  10. National Geological Survey – One Rejection
  11. National Institutes of Health – One Rejection
  12. National Patent and Trademark Office – Multiple Rejections
  13. National Security Agency – Three Live Interviews, Multiple Rejections
  14. Oakridge National Laboratory – One Rejection
  15. Civilian Air Force – Multiple Rejections
  16. Civilian Army – Multiple Rejections
  17. Civilian Navy – Multiple Rejections
  18. Etc.

My personal rejections are too numerous to fully enumerate but here goes:

  1. Failed to skip the second grade – One Rejection
  2. Female drug addicts – Multiple Rejections
  3. High school girlfriend – One Rejection
  4. LaGrange College Coeds – Multiple Rejections
  5. Match.com – Multiple Rejections
  6. Zoosk.com – Multiple Rejections
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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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