I was so unqualified for this job that I didn’t even know to turn it down
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The mesivta I attended offered no formal general studies. No English no math no science. I graduated with some sort of diploma but without any idea of where my vocational interests might lie.
As long as I was safely ensconced within the yeshivah system this wasn’t a problem. I did the same thing all my peers did: continued from high school to beis medrash then to Eretz Yisrael then to a yeshivah in America.
Unlike most of my friends I did not have an easy time in shidduchim. As one year went by and then another keeping a positive frame of mind became increasingly difficult and my learning deteriorated significantly. I put a lot of thought into my situation and decided that I wanted to go to work.
This turned out to be a much more difficult step than I anticipated because my family and friends were opposed to the idea. “Who would date you?” they asked. And “How can you possibly leave yeshivah? You don’t understand the repercussions.” These were comments I heard over and over again.
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