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Dear (formerly) prospective employer:

Deal with your HR people posthaste.

Seriously, I graduated in the 80s! Why the hell would you REQUIRE me to show you a copy of my high school diploma in order to be hired? Especially when you've seen my military status(1) AND my college transcripts.

My high school diploma wasn't something I kept ahold of after I'd been out of high school for more than ten years.

(1) ... I don't know if they've changed it since I got out. When I went in; you had to either be a high school graduate, have a GED or be enrolled in a GED equivilency program through basic training.

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Things need to change.

I am starting those changes by starting to grow plants again.

No, I'm not rototilling my entire backyard. I'm starting small. Just a few pots of various peppers and maybe some tomatos and cukes along the porch trellis.

I've not grown anything in ages. Maybe this is the kick I need. SOMETHING has to change.

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Army is officialing allowing tattoos now.

Yeah, the recruiters must be having a SERIOUSLY hard time with getting meat for the grinder. Before this, tattoos on the back of your neck or hands would bar one from enlisting. Now, not only can one enlist with such, soldiers can get them done as long as they are not ... " extremist, indecent, sexist or racist ".