I saw a video from Sane Progressive on how 95 million people have nowhere to go when it comes to their place in the workforce ( Link here). And boy does she have it right. Many people in this country have, quite literally, nowhere to go when it comes to finding work or carving out a living for themselves. Virtually everything is gone. Yet so many people are still willing to play along with the lies about those great jobs numbers from the Obama Administration and are bitching about how Trumpy Boy and Pencildick are gonna erase those 'great' numbers.

People with disabilities have always been on the wrong end of the stick when it comes to employment. We're usually the first to go in a slump and are usually the lowest paid, and that's if we can even find jobs at all. Even when we do, most of the time it's low wage, sometimes below minimum if an employer can get away with it.

In any case, despite all the programs that are there to 'help' us, we've never had anywhere to go in society. That's why I've largely given up on 'real' employment. It didn't exist before I went to college and it still doesn't now. And I have no reason to believe it will anytime soon.

That's fine, I suppose. Doesn't change the fact that I have to humor my employment specialist who still thinks it's the fuckin' 90s and go out to every place we apply to and 'follow up' even when the only response we get is that the hiring process is online.

I've had people tell me that my attitude sucks and that's why I don't get hired. You know what, I probably do have a shitty attitude sometimes. Comes with the territory of having to deal with assholes like the hiring managers who automate the hiring process, or the executives who say they're happy to have disabled people in the workplace only to stab them in the back when the PR campaign is over.

So I'll just keep humoring people until I'm institutionalized or dead, which ever comes first. Besides the wife and the cats, it's all I've got left.

See ya around,

Aspie