Dear

Abby

Dear Abby:

A bachelor wrote to say that whenever he applied for a job, as soon as they learned that he was over 30 and unmarried, they lost interest in him. He claimed that his single status

also made him suspect as a homosexual-which he is not.

Abby, as a personnel manager for many years, I have interviewed hundreds of job applicants, and if two equally qualified men apply for a job and one is married and the other is single, the married man usually gets the job.

Why? Not because the single man may be a homosexual, but because without a wife, family or "roots," a man is more apt to quit his job. Not so with a married man. His family obligations make it necessary for him to stick with his job.

Training employes is very expensive, so you can't fault businesses for giving preference to the applicant who is more likely to stay with the job.

Dear J.M.C.:

J.M.C.

Thank you for giving the other side of the picture.