Employment

I am 25 years old and i have had many jobs and they typically don't last for long. I don't know about you but i am either get managed out, harassed, bullied, physically assaulted, Poisoned or scapegoated on and either have to quit because i have metal breakdown, My health becomes compromised or i get fired. I have done so much work experience at this point it has become a joke & i have completed every health and workplace programme operating in ten mile radius from where i now live. 

You have to remember that a lot of autistic individuals are not in employment. I think the statistic suggest that only fourteen percent of autistic individuals where in work before the pandemic. A significant amount of that statistic showed that most of them where in part time work and about 2 percent where in a specialised field of their choosing.

Firstly you have to figure out if you want to work and secondly figure out what you want to do for employment. Once you decided this ask for the help. Job centre in the UK have disability employment advisor. Theirs are multiple employment schemes i highly recommend avoiding the Shawtrust they are awful organisation. 

You may be able to access college if You have PIP and still claim universal credit if your over the age of 21. you may be able to access employment based internship. 

If your Job searching I recommend using Linkedin over indeed and other job searching website. Linkedin is more complex and is more of a social network for finding employment and contains far less dodgy job posting than indeed and Cv library. You can also use the government website to find disability friendly jobs. 

You also may not be ready for employment, take a break, deal and process stuff and discover what you want to do and work on getting better and improving your health.    

Blue said:

i am either get managed out, harassed, bullied, physically assaulted, Poisoned or scapegoated on and either have to quit because i have metal breakdown, My health becomes compromised or i get fired.

Sadly familiar to me. Hence I am now self employed. I had a career change at 43 after never really getting on in a job for 20+ years.

Blue said:

i am either get managed out, harassed, bullied, physically assaulted, Poisoned or scapegoated on and either have to quit because i have metal breakdown, My health becomes compromised or i get fired.

Sadly familiar to me. Hence I am now self employed. I had a career change at 43 after never really getting on in a job for 20+ years.

Thanks

Well done - radical change really!

My final job was as a facilities manager at J&J for a service provider. I initially left to set up as a handyman. Then I got offered a trainee role with a local builder and worked for them for nearly 2 years. One of the owners was a qualified electrician, so I got to do electrical work with him. Then I left them and decided to put myself through the course. I finally got signed off in November last year.

How/when/why did you switch corporate → sparks?

I’m not great at the promotion bit a potential customers house to do quotes makes me very nervous. Also I’m not motivated by money in the same way other electricians seem to be, so for really easy jobs i get embarrassed to ask to get paid for it.

I’ve said in previous post responses though, that a few nerves to do a job that I really enjoy and am in full control of is worth it. I could never go back into a corporate environment now, and in many respects can’t believe I ever did, but it was just what you did when you finished college.

I was thinking of self employment but am rubbish at self promoting. Sometimes I just think of giving up on a career but not doing anything makes me feel poop.

Katy x