This is in response to the credit check entry.

When I started to read this entry, my eyes grew wide. Employers doing credit checks upon employment, I believe, is wrong. It's absurd, especially for college students. College graduates have years of debt from tuition, books, room/board, supplies, food, not to mention other bills, such as cell phone, car insurance/payments, and doctor bills.

Of course, when an employer looks at the credit history, it probably won't look that great, but there are a lot of people today, with and without a college education, that are also living paycheck to paycheck (unless the person is a graduate student who has already found a good paying job).

Maybe I just don't understand the definition of a credit check. I guess the check would be all right if the employer was looking to make sure the candidate didn't steal, etc. but on the other hand, it is an invasion of privacy. It makes me wonder what they are going to come up with next.

I shouldn't complain though. At my office job, my bosses are paying for my notary public commission. I don't have the money to pay for it and it's nice that I don't have to come up with money that I don't even have. I'm hoping that once my notary commission is ready for me to use and I add it to my resume, more employers will take notice. I'm trying to learn as much as I can being a legal secretary. I want to use that experience for future jobs.