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Paid Work Woes

Pandoren

I'll start the thread by saying I'm skint. I still live with my parents and I'm sort of in debt to them now...

I picked up an application form today for a Sunday job at the local supermarket... but she said it was working the tills and I think having to interact with the public for six hours a week is my idea of hell. I already work three voluntary jobs where I don't really interact with the public but also don't really interact with my own coworkers! When I did work experience at a shop when I was at school, I did my best to avoid everybody.

There's also the awkward question "Please account for any periods of non-employment" and other than the voluntary stuff, I've never been employed- I left college at 18 and have spent 7 useless years at home. Frown

Sometimes I think I'll never be employed. Frown

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  • I think you've raised one important issue - small town, middle of nowhere.

    A lot of your contemporaries have probably had to look for opportunities elsewhere, by moving to the nearest big town or city. This may not be so easy for you if you live with your parents on account of needing their support.

    The range of jobs in even a small village used to be quite large, but everyone nowadays drives to a bigger centre, or a shopping mall. Many villages have no shop or petrol station. Some small towns have no bank, or they might have a restricted times bank and no cash point.Gradually even in small towns the services migrate to the bigger centres.

    So the range of opportunities can be small to start with, and the policy to cut back bus services in recent years has left quite a few villages a mile from a bus stop, as a minimum requirement, and small towns may not have buses every day. If the jobs available aren't good ones for someone on the spectrum then you are stuck.

    Is there a relative or someone connected to your family with whom you would be happy to stay weeknights, so as to be able to go to a bigger town to find work? Or is there a lifts scheme that would enable you to work away, or is your town lucky enough to have decent bus connections?  Could your parents give you a lift to a regular bus route or train station? Or would you be adversely affected by the travelling?

    Are there things you can do well that would be valued in a local community, like working with engines, helping the elderly, horticultural work, or local authority work maintaining local services.

    It probably needs a bit of standing back and having a fresh look at what your town offers, or asking people to give some fresh thought to it for you.

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  • I think you've raised one important issue - small town, middle of nowhere.

    A lot of your contemporaries have probably had to look for opportunities elsewhere, by moving to the nearest big town or city. This may not be so easy for you if you live with your parents on account of needing their support.

    The range of jobs in even a small village used to be quite large, but everyone nowadays drives to a bigger centre, or a shopping mall. Many villages have no shop or petrol station. Some small towns have no bank, or they might have a restricted times bank and no cash point.Gradually even in small towns the services migrate to the bigger centres.

    So the range of opportunities can be small to start with, and the policy to cut back bus services in recent years has left quite a few villages a mile from a bus stop, as a minimum requirement, and small towns may not have buses every day. If the jobs available aren't good ones for someone on the spectrum then you are stuck.

    Is there a relative or someone connected to your family with whom you would be happy to stay weeknights, so as to be able to go to a bigger town to find work? Or is there a lifts scheme that would enable you to work away, or is your town lucky enough to have decent bus connections?  Could your parents give you a lift to a regular bus route or train station? Or would you be adversely affected by the travelling?

    Are there things you can do well that would be valued in a local community, like working with engines, helping the elderly, horticultural work, or local authority work maintaining local services.

    It probably needs a bit of standing back and having a fresh look at what your town offers, or asking people to give some fresh thought to it for you.

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