Where in the UK can I get employment without competition?

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Local Aspie charity doesn't offer employment support or advice. I've been writing to them for years on and off, wait months and months for response, always the same form letter in response.

I've told you before how you afford a course, as have many other people. You must be surviving on benefits therefore you can get free or very heavily subsidised courses at local colleges (and many do distance learning). You say you have no savings. How is this possible? You'll tell me it's none of my business what you spend your money on but if in 6 years you haven't managed to save a few hundred for a course then you obviously need help in managing your money.

What have you done in the past 6 years?

Look, for the billionth time, if you have Level 3 qualifications (e.g. A-levels) or higher, even if you are on benefits you get NO FREE EDUCATION COURSES. Look at the DWP website or phone the DWP if you don't believe me. How simple is that to understand?

As for distance learning, I can't get a free or cut price Open University course. If you have a degree, even if you are on benefits, you don't get discounts from the OU.

Do you actually know how little you get on benefits, and how far you have to spread the money? And that even if you amass savings (god knows how), the DWP only allows individuals £6000 savings before starting clawbacks? (Not that I have anywhere near that money.) If you honestly believe that a benefits claimant will be rolling in excess money, put down your Daily Mail and tune into Reality FM.

I'm educated to Masters level. Since receiving that Masters I have attended a subsidised course at my local college. I don't need to call anyone to confirm that.



I haven't mentioned the OU.



Do I know? Yes, I'm living it right now. You have previously said you don't leave your residence, don't go shopping etc. So if you are claiming everything you can claim (and you probably aren't seeing as you won't converse with the JC) then I'm still not sure how you can be skint, and be that way for 6 years.

With a 2 ticks employer if you meet the criteria for the job you are guaranteed an interview if you tick the disability box. That is reducing if not eliminating the competition.

I kind of see how telling a boss about AS would be a disadvantage, especially if they know nothing about it... BUT if I was in that situation, I'd close the gap between telling them AND telling them how it has been an advantage for past employers, or without a past job, how it could in theory be an advantage.

Example: The people doing my last job before I took it over, worked in pairs. I took it over at a time they wanted someone to do it solo, and I did it alone better than they could together. I did it honestly without bludging, and while increasing my workload, freeing up other workers and workstations.

Why? Because AS gives me a desire for solo work, a well ordered workplace, control over my environment, and honesty born out of a desire to keep things clear and un-confusing.

We're all different. Do an audit on your particular traits. List the positive ones and how they'll contribute to a work environment. Talk it over in your head/run scenarios. Then when you next have an interview - be assertive (not aggressive) in showing the benefits of your traits to the job.

Who knows. Might help.

They only have to give you an interview, and for equality purposes, i.e. to cover their asses legally, to borrow an American phrase. I would have no chance even if hypothetically I got that far, and my AS is too bad to manage interviews. I had my interview for university essentially wavered, for example.

Kirsty_84 is lying and talking crap BTW, she is a cyber stalking out to taunt be into committing suicide.

I don't think so. I used to use BBC Ouch before it closed, and I used it before you came along. I have used this site for ages; I was registered long before you. So how can I be stalking YOU?

And anyway, I'm not even posting on the Student Room

The crux of the matter is - how are you going to get a job if you cannot leave the house unsupervised?

but you can literally get thousands of dollars every month working from home

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