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Looking for a job

LavenderPiano

This is mainly a rant about my job searching situation and a bit of background.

I've been looking for a stable job for a few years now, since graduating from uni, but it's such a struggle. I managed to work as a barista for a few months and my confidence improved a lot, but I just couldn't communicate that well with others, and I still can't. I basically got fired from the job but the manager said that it was a 'temporary' job and that it was in my contract even though it was blank. I should have really asked about it at the time but I didn't think it was that important. I was kind of sad from it but also a bit relieved because I hated most customers lol.

I got another job after that as a technician on a casual contract at a theatre, as I thought I wanted to work in the music industry. However, I only ever worked one shift in a year and I hated it. As a short, skinny girl in her early 20's I wasn't really built for it lol.

Anyway, I decided it wasn't for me and I did a short office admin course, because I like making schedules and to-do lists, and thought a career in admin might suit me well. Turns out you have to have experience working as an admin assistant and you have to have 'excellent communication skills', yay (sarcastic). I'm not even sure if I would enjoy it, but I'm sick of not having a stable job. I'm worried about my future and I need to get out of the house.

In an ideal world, I'd love to have a stable, remote job where I can travel the world and learn different languages in my spare time, while feeling comfortable enough to live on my own. When I look anything up about this, it says about being a freelancer but I don't really want a heavily creative job, or it says about going into education, but I feel like I've been in education enough and now I'm just ready to be stable. 

I also worry about not being able to do the job properly and misunderstanding what I'm supposed to do, as I have made many mistakes in my previous jobs. 

I'd love to hear about other people's experience with looking for a job or some advice.

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  • I'm 28 and struggling to find full-time work. I also have Semantic Pragmatic Disorder (SPD), which basically means that I process information slower than others and I struggle to communicate at times. I mainly have experience in Animal Care but it's mostly been zero hour contract jobs. I used to have 2 jobs, one at a kennel and cattery and another at a dog daycare. I got fired from the dog daycare suddenly and I'm still to this day technically employed at the kennel but they rarely give me shifts anymore. I then took and passed a dog grooming course earlier this year and got a job in a high-profile dog grooming salon but my employment got terminated at the end of the probation period.

    This incident led to the conclusion that my disability may have played a part in me losing all of these jobs. Up until that job, I had been told NOT to mention my disability in any job applications. However, now I'm being told to mention it (not in great detail but still) and I worry I'm not gonna get another job for a while if I keep mentioning my disability and even if I do, I might get treated differently from others (specifically special treatment that makes things easier for me that might make others resent me). I was quite self-concious about my disability when I was at school and always tried to keep it quiet. I don't know if mentioning my disability with potential jobs will mean that I might get an assistant to help me at the job (like I had in primary school) but if it does, I'm worried it will look weird to others even if I do need them. Needless to say, this past year and bad luck with my jobs has seriously knocked my confidence by a lot.

    Does anyone have any advice regarding where I can find autism-friendly jobs and job support? Both for Animal Care-related jobs and jobs in general? Also, interview techniques because I'm quite shy and I suck at them (I got my kennel and dog daycare jobs via job trials, which I feel I'm better at because I can demonstrate my abilities through actions instead of words)? I'll greatly appreciate it! Also, feel free to share your own stories too!

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  • I'm 28 and struggling to find full-time work. I also have Semantic Pragmatic Disorder (SPD), which basically means that I process information slower than others and I struggle to communicate at times. I mainly have experience in Animal Care but it's mostly been zero hour contract jobs. I used to have 2 jobs, one at a kennel and cattery and another at a dog daycare. I got fired from the dog daycare suddenly and I'm still to this day technically employed at the kennel but they rarely give me shifts anymore. I then took and passed a dog grooming course earlier this year and got a job in a high-profile dog grooming salon but my employment got terminated at the end of the probation period.

    This incident led to the conclusion that my disability may have played a part in me losing all of these jobs. Up until that job, I had been told NOT to mention my disability in any job applications. However, now I'm being told to mention it (not in great detail but still) and I worry I'm not gonna get another job for a while if I keep mentioning my disability and even if I do, I might get treated differently from others (specifically special treatment that makes things easier for me that might make others resent me). I was quite self-concious about my disability when I was at school and always tried to keep it quiet. I don't know if mentioning my disability with potential jobs will mean that I might get an assistant to help me at the job (like I had in primary school) but if it does, I'm worried it will look weird to others even if I do need them. Needless to say, this past year and bad luck with my jobs has seriously knocked my confidence by a lot.

    Does anyone have any advice regarding where I can find autism-friendly jobs and job support? Both for Animal Care-related jobs and jobs in general? Also, interview techniques because I'm quite shy and I suck at them (I got my kennel and dog daycare jobs via job trials, which I feel I'm better at because I can demonstrate my abilities through actions instead of words)? I'll greatly appreciate it! Also, feel free to share your own stories too!

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