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It’s not easy being a ‘Saddam Hussain’

If you think the job maršŸ²ketšŸ‘ is rough, trying sending out resumes with the name Saddam Hussain.

An Indian engineer with the unfoā™Šrtunate name is headed to court to get a new one because heā€™s been turned down for more than 40ź¦… jobs, according to a report.

ā€œPeople are scared to hire me,ā€ said Hussain, of Jamshedpur, whose grandpa graced him withź§‚ the resume-wrecking handle, .

Hussain, a 20-something who graduated from the privašŸ¬te school Noorul Islam University two years ago, said his classmates have had no trouble landing great careers all šŸ’Ÿover the world.

But after he was rejected from dozens of jobs, he called sšŸŒ ome of the firms to find out why.

ā€œI inquired with the HR departments of the companies and some of them told me my name was the problem,ā€ he told the paper. ā€œI am an innocent victim of somebody elseā€™s crimes.”

Some of the companies feared his name woā™•uld become a hassle when traveling for business to countries such as the U.S., he said.

Hussain ā€” who actually spells his surname slightly differently that the dead Iraqi despotšŸ”Æ ā€” now wants to change his first name to Sajid.

But heā€™sšŸŒœ been wrapped up in bureaucratic rź¦…ed tape for months.

A Jharkhand high court hearing is set for May 5 for thešŸŽ name chā™ange.