08 Aug 2008, 6:36 pm
A job?!?! I don't know if it's the economy, or whatever, but I have fully-qualified, intelligent, capable, hardworking, muliple-degreed aspie friends who have been looking for a job for over two years!! Wonderful people. HOW are we supposed to survive? (Unless we get gov. handouts).......? 
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08 Aug 2008, 6:40 pm
Reflection wrote:
Haha, a job?! That's a joke. I don't know if it's the economy, or whatever, but I have fully-qualified, intelligent, capable, muliple-degreed aspie friends who have been looking for a job for over two years!! Wonderful people. HOW are we supposed to survive? (Unless we get gov. handouts).......?
It's the economy and the fact that people don't understand us. I graduated from college and now I am working at a retirement community as a housekeeper. College degrees don't count for anything if you have bad social skills basically. And I got that job as a housekeeper through vocational services which were indeed a government program.
However I'm not that unhappy about where I am, because I wanted to work in a retirement home and I am hoping to be a CNA and then a nurse eventually. So this gives me a heads up.
Do whatever you have to. Unfortunately you might have to depend on something from the government.
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09 Aug 2008, 10:33 am
DNForrest wrote:
Yeah, I'm feeling their same pain. I graduated in June 07 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, blown about 12 in-person interviews and many more phone interviews. It's getting a tad bit frustrating, to say the least, especially when I run into people with whom I graduated and the first question they ask is "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?"
They ask it in that manner? lol If someone would say "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?" I would feel like smacking them. That's so rude to ask you like that.
I didn't realize I might have AS until I had so much trouble getting a job either, and I hate having to kiss people's asses. Every manager I have ever had has been an ass and hasn't done any work themselves basically. I try to stay away from the one I have now as much as possible because I think she told people I came from a disability program and I had back problems. She reamed me out the first week I was there but I didn't quit, and I think she thought I had quit because I was crying in her office.
09 Aug 2008, 10:44 am
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DNForrest wrote:
Yeah, I'm feeling their same pain. I graduated in June 07 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, blown about 12 in-person interviews and many more phone interviews. It's getting a tad bit frustrating, to say the least, especially when I run into people with whom I graduated and the first question they ask is "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?"
They ask it in that manner? lol If someone would say "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?" I would feel like smacking them. That's so rude to ask you like that.
I didn't realize I might have AS until I had so much trouble getting a job either, and I hate having to kiss people's asses. Every manager I have ever had has been an ass and hasn't done any work themselves basically. I try to stay away from the one I have now as much as possible because I think she told people I came from a disability program and I had back problems. She reamed me out the first week I was there but I didn't quit, and I think she thought I had quit because I was crying in her office.
Trust me, a good smacking's come to mind on several occasions. Though to be fair, the main reason they ask is that it's both odd for a Chemical Engineer to not get a job easily, and they're more shocked than anything that I'm unable to get a job, with my level of intelligence (as arrogant as it may be to claim that). Admitedly, I have been given job offers, but I didn't get an engineering degree to sell property insurance (one company that I've never before contacted keeps on setting up interviews).
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09 Aug 2008, 10:49 am
Fossy wrote:
DNForrest wrote:
Yeah, I'm feeling their same pain. I graduated in June 07 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, blown about 12 in-person interviews and many more phone interviews. It's getting a tad bit frustrating, to say the least, especially when I run into people with whom I graduated and the first question they ask is "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?"
They ask it in that manner? lol If someone would say "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?" I would feel like smacking them. That's so rude to ask you like that.
I didn't realize I might have AS until I had so much trouble getting a job either, and I hate having to kiss people's asses. Every manager I have ever had has been an ass and hasn't done any work themselves basically. I try to stay away from the one I have now as much as possible because I think she told people I came from a disability program and I had back problems. She reamed me out the first week I was there but I didn't quit, and I think she thought I had quit because I was crying in her office.
That sounds like a former McDonald's manager I had worked with. I suggest you quit soon before she tries to get you fired for sexual harassment or some other invented or stretched charge. I wasn't fired because ALL my coworkers and other shift managers spoke up and said it was bologna, but you still need to leave while you are still employABLE.
People that hate you that much and have the power to ruin your life WILL DO SO eventually.
09 Aug 2008, 10:55 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Fossy wrote:
DNForrest wrote:
Yeah, I'm feeling their same pain. I graduated in June 07 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, blown about 12 in-person interviews and many more phone interviews. It's getting a tad bit frustrating, to say the least, especially when I run into people with whom I graduated and the first question they ask is "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?"
They ask it in that manner? lol If someone would say "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?" I would feel like smacking them. That's so rude to ask you like that.
I didn't realize I might have AS until I had so much trouble getting a job either, and I hate having to kiss people's asses. Every manager I have ever had has been an ass and hasn't done any work themselves basically. I try to stay away from the one I have now as much as possible because I think she told people I came from a disability program and I had back problems. She reamed me out the first week I was there but I didn't quit, and I think she thought I had quit because I was crying in her office.
That sounds like a former McDonald's manager I had worked with. I suggest you quit soon before she tries to get you fired for sexual harassment or some other invented or stretched charge. I wasn't fired because ALL my coworkers and other shift managers spoke up and said it was bologna, but you still need to leave while you are still employABLE.
People that hate you that much and have the power to ruin your life WILL DO SO eventually.
She won't make me quit and she can't. None of the other managers like her and they know me. I've been there since October and we've basically just stayed away from each other. I won't be in that department for that much longer anyway.
I'm also living with my parents and they won't let me quit. I don't think quitting is the answer anyway. Quitting something gets you nowhere. I know from past experiences.
I'm doing my job and the seniors like me. I am not going to sit at home and do nothing. It's really not wise to quit without a backup. I'm sorry for what happened to you but I don't think that's going to happen to me. My boss acts like that to everybody.
09 Aug 2008, 10:59 am
DNForrest wrote:
Fossy wrote:
DNForrest wrote:
Yeah, I'm feeling their same pain. I graduated in June 07 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, blown about 12 in-person interviews and many more phone interviews. It's getting a tad bit frustrating, to say the least, especially when I run into people with whom I graduated and the first question they ask is "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?"
They ask it in that manner? lol If someone would say "Why haven't you gotten a job yet?" I would feel like smacking them. That's so rude to ask you like that.
I didn't realize I might have AS until I had so much trouble getting a job either, and I hate having to kiss people's asses. Every manager I have ever had has been an ass and hasn't done any work themselves basically. I try to stay away from the one I have now as much as possible because I think she told people I came from a disability program and I had back problems. She reamed me out the first week I was there but I didn't quit, and I think she thought I had quit because I was crying in her office.
Trust me, a good smacking's come to mind on several occasions. Though to be fair, the main reason they ask is that it's both odd for a Chemical Engineer to not get a job easily, and they're more shocked than anything that I'm unable to get a job, with my level of intelligence (as arrogant as it may be to claim that). Admitedly, I have been given job offers, but I didn't get an engineering degree to sell property insurance (one company that I've never before contacted keeps on setting up interviews).
Yeah I don't drive, so that limits me. I know that they probably don't try to be rude, but I just feel like people in general need to think before they ask something. lol Sometimes I feel like I'm the only considerate person in the world or something. You know what I mean?
09 Aug 2008, 11:00 am
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