Disability Caucus 1/28/2017: Not Worthy of an Office Job
May of this year will mark 5 years since graduating college. As of now I still have yet to find a stable job for one reason or another. Just last year I sent out resumes for over 200 postings and to make a long story short, no one was interested either because I didn't have experience or a license.
According to my employment specialist, there's yet another obstacle holding me back: I have no experience handling money. That's a load of crap, because many short term office jobs never required such a thing and to be honest, I'd rather not be involved in a job handling money anyway. She told me this as we were following up on a shipping clerk job at a lumber yard.
Of course I'd never actually get the job because public transit has no stops anywhere near their place of business, but from what I could gather from the brief conversation with the HR lady, I was certainly qualified to do it.
So now my employment specialist is suggesting becoming a ticket agent at the local zoo to get some experience handling money. Bah. They'll just tell me I'm overqualified and ask me why I don't have a job in my field.
Nobody needs us. Nobody wants us. I may as well throw the resume in the trash and strike out on my own somehow. Let's face it folks, it's all that's left now. Yet not one single person I work with in regards to disability services gets this.
Something has to give.
See ya around,
Aspie
Comments
Not "disability services", plain old employment services
Why do they call it a disability service, you are getting the same treatment everyone gets, dog eat dog. "That's the system." Some lame contractor or program robot goes through motions and gets paid doing nothing out of the ordinary, stigma remains firmly intact as does unemployment. That was my experience with social security, lots of "do as I say, not as I do" words. Ding! They get paid, goal achieved.
Thanks a lot for writing about being unemployed, it is really a drag. My mind rots without something to do every day, I have been working for free or for food when I can get it, but I'm totally alone no family no friends now penniless. Last thing I remember I was happily married owning a house and making good money, that was 1997, diagnosed in 2000 now trapped on fixed inadequate income, in overpriced rental of course.
Next week must give up my car can't afford to keep it. Already living in solitary confinement, days sometimes weeks go by without speaking and it is weird to hear my own voice out loud. Bear witness, that is why I signed up at dk and that is my focus here. If you don't stop the evil, one day it will reach you, that is the message. Wake up!
People should know what the system does for disabled, the safety net that isn't. Unless a
patientcustomer can borrow from the bank, then all is golden, otherwise it's just a bummer. Don't say racket say ticket, because best words. Insidious propaganda throughout.Thanks