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liz31
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26 Dec 2012, 6:47 pm

I got let go today after 6 hours from a temp job that I had been chasing for 4 months. It involved alphabetizing transcripts in a college admissions office. I'm sure the fact that I had to go off all my add meds for health related reasons didn't help AT ALL. I am 32 almost 33 years old-I have never managed to even get hired for a full time job. I am working with Voc Rehab but they don't know what to do with me and most other people in my life seem to feel similarly. I am just frustrated that I have above average intelligence but seem to lack the ability to do anything with it.



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26 Dec 2012, 7:00 pm

awwww!! Thats awful

There are loads of things you can do.

We are the same age actually.

I want to help you. Email me or PM me and I want to go over the details of this. To be let go so quick suggests its not about the actual work to me.



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26 Dec 2012, 7:04 pm

liz31 wrote:
I got let go today after 6 hours from a temp job that I had been chasing for 4 months. It involved alphabetizing transcripts in a college admissions office. I'm sure the fact that I had to go off all my add meds for health related reasons didn't help AT ALL. I am 32 almost 33 years old-I have never managed to even get hired for a full time job. I am working with Voc Rehab but they don't know what to do with me and most other people in my life seem to feel similarly. I am just frustrated that I have above average intelligence but seem to lack the ability to do anything with it.


I kinda know how you feel except I am only 23, but yeah I often feel frusterated that I have intelligence yet I can't seem to do anything useful with it. I am applying for SSI but I don't know if that will work or not...I hope so since I have no idea what to do otherwise. So yeah I have similar frustration but have not dealt with it as long.


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27 Dec 2012, 11:35 pm

The realization that intelligence, at least by itself, doesn't get you very far in the job market is a major part of growing up, I'm afraid.

Don't get me wrong...I wish intelligence/education (yes, I know they're not the same thing, but they're related) counted for more, but they don't.



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29 Dec 2012, 12:40 pm

Are there strategies that you have found helpful for dealing with the issues below?



"The realization that intelligence, at least by itself, doesn't get you very far in the job market is a major part of growing up, I'm afraid.

Don't get me wrong...I wish intelligence/education (yes, I know they're not the same thing, but they're related) counted for more, but they don't."



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29 Dec 2012, 6:58 pm

liz31 wrote:
Are there strategies that you have found helpful for dealing with the issues below?


Afraid not. I'm able to hold down a full-time job, but just a crappy one that doesn't pay enough to get me out of my folks' house.



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30 Dec 2012, 10:21 am

answeraspergers wrote:
awwww!! Thats awful

There are loads of things you can do.

We are the same age actually.

I want to help you. Email me or PM me and I want to go over the details of this. To be let go so quick suggests its not about the actual work to me.


I have similar problems to the OP only worse because I am 37 and have both a BA degree and an advanced degree (MS in Finance) but have a terrible work history. I have not held a full time since 2009 only scattered temp jobs that got let go from in a few weeks or months because of vague reasons.