When you’re working in a company, this can be the difference between success and failure. From my experience working in corporate, I’ve often felt like I didn’t belong at some of the companies I worked at.

When you consider this, the queries you make are:

Are there people in my age group?

Will I see people in my culture who I identify with?

What do I if I can not finding any belonging?

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Don’t worry, I know what it’s like. I’ve also been in this situation where I’ve tried to find my identity at my company but couldn’t.

I’ve also found that this can also lead some employees to start looking for other jobs.

Being in a company where I didn’t feel like I belonged is tough. I’m looking for certain boxes to check to feel that emptiness. When I brought it up at a few companies, things didn’t make sense. Meet and greets for me would be socially awkward because I’m not married and I don’t have kids. I remember being at a meet and greet, and I was in a group with people who had recently gotten married and were starting a family or had kids already. I was so embarrassed because I wasn’t in that group. If you’re going to match people together but don’t match them by what they have in common in terms of life in going, then you don’t make me feel welcome.

Culture wise when working at a company that doesn’t have a clue what it means to be a Black professional and how your values may be different from the values on which their world is built on.

One of the easiest things to do is to accept or learn about my culture. I have friends who are not black and I have learned their culture so I know what it is. Being black is not enough that you are undervalued at most companies. Some companies will hire you just to say that they have diversity but they will never understand that you have the skills to do it but they will never hire you because of your skin color. You are already hurting because people don’t understand you and where your shoes are.

Everybody wants to be accepted in the workplace and treated fairly. I accept everybody for who they are no matter what. Show other’s that you can do the same thing in the workplace.