HELLO WORLD

Cory Booker Should Probably Ask Me Out On A Date

naomi yoder
1 min readSep 29, 2018

Whats all this? To put it bluntly, i’m exhausted. For more than two years, i’ve been job searching, opening myself to possibility, change and challenge. Countless times, I’ve felt optimistic and enthusiastic about an opportunity, and then gotten a rejection notice (or worse: no notification at all, just silent rejection). The cycle of enthusiasm and discouragement is insidious. Pile on top of that the failures of recent romantic relationships, and optimism seems like a distant oasis.

I’m here to share about my experience with the hope that i will facilitate connection with someone else and create something helpful out of the painful muck.

I aim to answer the questions of how is it that i haven’t “made” it? Why shouldn’t i be somebody that an attractive successful person like Cory Booker would run into and take notice of? Job searching, online dating, meaning and spirituality in middle class 21st century America. Where’s the damn lotus?

Lotus at Jojakkuji temple, Arashiyama district, Kyoto ©naomi

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naomi yoder

Staff Scientist at Healthy Gulf. I work at the intersection of science, public health, policy, ecology and environmental justice. Based in Houston.