My complicated writing and editing work for the Human Resources company in Tampa required the most state-of-the-art computers available.
As a man, I had been working on computers since 1988, so it was easy for me to accumulate what I needed. In fact, as a male, I had been a writer and editor for major business magazines in the late Nineties.
However, the work I did from my home office for clients these days was peculiarly difficult because HR Inc. was a group of experts trying to solve dissimilar problems for organizations or government. That means the writing was academic and problematic.
What astonished me is that some of the men in the group flirted with me when I first appeared at our weekly staff meeting in Tampa. Since I am not attractive, they must have been trapped in the past. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That witticism is usually attributed to Albert Einstein. Never thought I would have THAT problem.
We also had monthly weekend conferences for our clients. Obviously, I had to appear in public on those weekends, but my self-confidence was elevated since my gender affirmation surgery had been so successful.
I basked in the gratification of finally being the woman I had always aspired to be.
