Susan Stanton voted Lake Worth City Manager
ABC Action News
April 7, 2009


http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Susan-Stanton-voted-Lake-Worth-City-Manager/-06JGKiX0E6ywFmLbMlcYQ.cspx


LAKE WORTH, FL -- Susan Stanton has just been announced to be the new Lake Worth City Manager.

Good for her. 

Janet

I think we should all move there.   


Kristi

I'm really happy for her. No, I don't want to move to Florida. I heard they have big spiders.

New Lake Worth city manager is transgender rights activist
Sun Sentinel
April 8, 2009


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-susan-stanton-city-manager-bn040809,0,5905111.story


"I thought she had the right temperament for our city and, truthfully, I learned a lot from her," Vice Mayor Jo-Ann Golden said.

Commissioner Cara Jennings said she favored Stanton because of her team-building approach to managing city staff.

"She's highly motivated," Jennings said. "Also, we need someone who wants to be here for a long time."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/04/07/0407lwmanager.html

Above link is to the article in todays Palm Beach Post.

The only thing I find trouble believing is the 150K a year salary. That could explain why Lake Worth is rather expensive to live in though.

Shiela, the spiders arent that big. However a few people I know have ended up in the hospital due to brown recluse spider bites.

Its about 70 and sunny today, paradise.

Michelle, that is what City Managers make. In Eugene, OR. they make just a little less but not much. It is over the 100,000 mark and we certainly don't have any high paying jobs and the housing isn't that expensive if you compare the two cities. I do like that sound-70 and sunny.

Says a huge amount about the value of a good education in a worthwhile field.   I think a lot of poverty in the trans community is caused by a lack of education and skills, and not overt discrimination.

It's great. I hope the community will be better for it. I am rather envious of the income.   Most big spiders are not venemous, it's the little ones that can kill.

I am really glad she has persevered and found a new job.

I congratulate her and hope she performs well.

Gennee

I don't think you need education, like college degree, to be successful and to get a job. Skills are handy but being patient in one job can make you become successful. There still is a lot of discrimination out there and yes, some of it could be because of being trans. There is also discrimination on how you dress for a job interview or just the plain old interview. People still discriminate for jobs. I always told my kids that you can become successful just by starting out flipping hamburgers for a living. There are so many ways you could go with that job. All jobs are real jobs.

Quote from: tekla on April 08, 2009, 01:45:20 PM
Says a huge amount about the value of a good education in a worthwhile field.   I think a lot of poverty in the trans community is caused by a lack of education and skills, and not overt discrimination.

True to an extent ... but discrimination, whether personal or institutional, often interferes with that education. For instance, consider sex discrimination: I notice the utter dearth of women in my field ... and that many that make it through the education process suffer years of people dismissing them and telling them they ought to do something else. Pretty much none of the guys ever deal with that. Coincidence?

Being transgendered often leads to a a whole host of similar impediments to getting a good education -- family problems, general difficulty in socialization, stress and cost of transition, etc. And most of that is linked to discrimination. If everyone thought that transgendered people were just peachy, those difficulties would be pretty much insignificant.