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Anyone else with Autism, ADHD or both gotten into full time employment & got their life together at age 25 ?

Blue

Anyone else with Autism, ADHD or both gotten into full time employment & got their life together at age 25 ? I've had enough of these fake organisation that keep failing me or forcing me into work in some really unsuitable work environments or with extremely shady employers. So far I've done so much work experience, leisure & online learning and nothing has given me a little bit of direction. I wanted to go back to college but they do not do digital infrastructure or digital development for those over the age of 23. 

I've tried an apprenticeship which ended early because of the training provider or school going bankrupt, it wasn't something I was interested in anyway but i was willing to give it a chance and complete them, they where in horticulture and retail. Looking back they where probably a waste of time as because they where in dead end entry level subjects. 

I just want some direction or at least a fresh start in a job in a clean, well ventilated environment with routine hours but i keep being harassed into livestock, meat processing and elderly care assistant roles and the only reason i didn't stay at these jobs is because harassment and bullying by the staff was ruthless and became violently physical and dangerous.          

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  • Hi Blue, just sent you a personal message following your post on the other 'Work Support' thread.  Sorry to hear you're still experiencing harassment.

    illage2 said:
    I tried to get into apprenticeships for IT years ago but at the time they were only for 16-18 year olds
    Blue said:
    September is the first time that any college in Norfolk is providing programming and digital infrastructure but their all T levels and restricted to under 23 year olds

    Agreed its a pain when there are so many hoops to jump through with the courses likely to be most useful.  Some news articles have said there's a digital skills shortage but any job advert requires specific experience.

  • in reply to metalmickey

    What about on-line courses?   Surely they'll take anyone who can pay?

    What qualification levels do you think you need to get your foot in the door?

    Have you thought of slightly off the wall IT stuff like PLC or SCADA programming?

  • in reply to Plastic

    Its not just about the qualification, its about getting the skills and understanding behind it all which is needed to get into sector and hands on experience. Google and YouTube tutorials can only get you soo far with developing skills before you hit a wall. 

    I've been learning coding in my own time as well as how to use blender animation software, Unity Engine, sculpture and keep hitting brick walls because all the accessible tutorials are out of date and further software and updates has changed certain mechanics.

    PLC or SCADA programming ? I've never heard of them know looking into them.   

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  • in reply to Plastic

    Its not just about the qualification, its about getting the skills and understanding behind it all which is needed to get into sector and hands on experience. Google and YouTube tutorials can only get you soo far with developing skills before you hit a wall. 

    I've been learning coding in my own time as well as how to use blender animation software, Unity Engine, sculpture and keep hitting brick walls because all the accessible tutorials are out of date and further software and updates has changed certain mechanics.

    PLC or SCADA programming ? I've never heard of them know looking into them.   

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  • in reply to Blue

    cool - have a watch of some videos - like the Moeller Easy 4xx-series - to see how they are programmed - 4-step ladder logic.

    For a lighting circuit it might be:

    If switch = on

    If daylight sensor = night

    If movement sensor = active

    lamp output = on.

    All very simple stuff - but it can get a bit more complicated with timers and analogue inputs and outputs thrown in the mix - but all very logical if you get your head around it.  Smiley

  • in reply to Plastic

    Plastic, Thank you. you've actually given me some direction. I'm now googling and looking at ways of peruse this further. 

  • in reply to Blue

    It's industrial automation with man-machine interfaces - so instead of a computer living in it's own world, you're connecting it directly to equipment to make things happen.

    Simple ones are thing like Smart Switches (like the Moeller 'Easy' range) - little bricks that only have a few ins & outs to control things like lighting or maybe a swimming pool chlorine-dosing system - they are either stand-alone or linked to bigger systems.

    The bigger systems can be controlling the production line in a factory - all the conveyors or robots.

    Scada systems are usually for long-range control of systems - like remote pumping stations for the water companies - it displays lots of remote status info on a screen and controls basic plant - but there usually a human in the system somewhere.

    The whole area is niche enough to be able to make your own - and the companies involved find it hard to recruit because it's so specialised.     You could probably convince them to sponsor you if there's something in it for them.

    There's also a half-way house - working for control & automation companies as a 'go-fer' where you are in the production factory assembling the actual equipment and also programming the PLCs - usually part of a very small team doing complete turn-key installations - you soon become a Jack-of-all trades - programmer, fitter, electrician - all depends on your ability to pick skills up.

    If someone gave you the parts, plans and showed you what to do, do you think you put this together?

    Another off-shoot is BMS - Building Management Systems - usually looking after a huge premises monitoring and controlling all the air con, heating, water systems, security, general maintenance, organising repairs etc.    Normally comes with a nice office and comfy chair  Smiley    You are the point of contact between the building owners and the people leasing the space.