Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello all,
So I've been unemployed now for basically a year (on December 15th). Throughout this whole year, I have been for countless interviews, completed various tasks for job applications, the lot. I was unsuccessful for all the roles, even having put in hours of hard work preparing for interviews and completing tasks, it still was not enough. I ask for feedback as to why I was unsuccessful, yet I just get no reply, so I don't really understand where it is I am falling short. I have been dealing with severe burnout as a result. I really want to give up and face the reality that no one may want to hire me, no matter how badly I want a job. I mean, a year is a long time to be out of work. Before my unemployment, I had graduated university in Maths with Economics, and got an internship at a market research agency. I was not successful in the internship, hence I was dismissed after the probation period of 3 months. It was due to a number of things such as my disability and not meeting "the standards of the Company" as quoted in the leaving letter. I did sense that my line manager was not my biggest fan, and they also part of the decision. Honestly I don't know what to do. It seems like with my disability, and I hate to bring it up, but my ethnic background, it is really difficult for me to break out of this cycle of unemployment.
Does anyone have any advice on how to gain employment, how to gain independence outside of the education system? Because that's all i've done in my life up until the last year.
Your experience sounds very familiar to me:
I've experienced all of these.
I wish you luck ️
Many businesses have quotas to fill now to make their workforce more accurately reflect the demographics of the country.
Being pearly white & born in England ain't a guarantee of an easy ride when it comes to getting work, and has not been for quite a long time now. Not that I am complaining, I live in a democracy, where the constitution of it's members has changed during my lifetime.
Work is much more of a "meritocracy" now that it used to be, the trick is finding an employer who prizes what you have to offer.
In my case across my entire employment history no-one has ever wanted to employ me based on my own efforts to write a job application and C.V. so except for the time (13 years or so) when I had someone who could do that for me.
I've been struggling with the basics of economic survival, and feelings of alienation and uselessness all my adult life.
Then in my sixties I find out that I have Autism as well as ADD, and suddenly I know WHY.
The dodgy trickcyclist (I looked him up on the internet) who gave me my formal diagnosis on the Autism told me that "there's no treatment for what you have" (although the reefers I like to consume seem to reduce the severity and frequency of meltdowns, and because they subdue my ADD seem fairly useful, with the added bonus that I don't actually go crazy if I have none unlike with the medicines that some people take for to help with their minds which you can never get off without careful supervision if at all. When things are actually going well for me I simply smoke a lot less dope...
I could get by on my intelligence and skill if I were living in a more P-P (person to person) society and have evidence to back that up from my travels, but in this society where everybody lies, and an adjustment factor is built in automatically for that when people view your "presentation", (cv and covering letter) then I'm screwed, unless someone ese does my presentation.
As a contractor with someone else doing my applications I was very successful, bought me a nice house and car really quickly, paid my way and largely pleased my employers, but the moment I was thrown back to doing my own applications despite having good pre-existing material to work with, I was back to being unemployable, except if I walk up to a place and talk my way in. But those jobs never pay much more than minimum wage, it costs an hour of work to pay for getting there in the first place, (assuming I start out with a serviceable vehicle) then the next hour and a half to two hours is done to pay my tax leaving me the rest to try and "pay my way". It can only work if I actually enjoy gong to work and am not being picked on on the workplace for being a bit odd..
So for me I've concluded, "work doesn't work". Except when it does. But that's no basis in this "regular payments on the dot" society any basis for making a life. So "credit" is simply useless to me, and my "credit score", an irrelevance.
I've started very late, but eventually I bought a small plot of land for £9K by selling & leveraging my main convertible assets, a plot of land (in the city centre) which is MINE, no rent or regular payments required, although I'm still on the hook for 4K worth of "loans" that were made to me by people who were sanguine about the possibility of never seeing their money again. It was six, but I got some hours of work during the pandemic.
I started building a 10x20ft concrete building to serve as a private workshop/ personal storage facility (AKA emergency temporary housing if I get made homeless again!) and FINALLY had a measure of "security" that cannot be snatched away if I can't make the payments.
Note that a temporary building (AKA compton garage) isn't "rateable" either and unless you live in it full time (and someone can prove that) or make money out of it (neither applies) it isn't going to require regular payments.
If it were not so the "Rich" would be crippled with rates or taxes on all their land.