From job interviews to dating apps, things get awkward for “that uni lecturer chick stuck in Iran a few years back”.
Technically, I’m unemployed. Like the dating scene, job applications as somebody with a fairly distinctive name and a face which, for a time, would pop up in people’s newsfeeds … let’s just say, they’re not straightforward. Unlike the dating apps, I can’t just make up a pseudonym and a deliberately vague backstory, accompanied by a few blurry shots in sunglasses from 10 metres away.
“No, I didn’t take a few years off to have kids. No, it wasn’t further study or recovery from illness. I was um … in prison. In a foreign country. Convicted of espionage …” I am a 35-year-old childless divorcee with a criminal record. It was never meant to be this way, of course.These people expect you to be a crumpled mess quivering in the corner and appear disappointed, or even suspicious, when you assure them that you’re not. In both instances you can forget about getting the job. You’re either already a basket case, or are in danger of becoming one at any moment.I am a 35-year-old childless divorcee with a criminal record.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Iran before her arrest and, left, the cover of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison.The moment a group of plainclothesmen at Imam Khomeini airport approached me en route to passport control and manoeuvred me into an interrogation room, my ambition for myself radically changed.
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