Vocational Rehab (states)

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I contacted the Voc Rehab place a couple of times over the last 2 weeks. No response, I just left a message and nobody gets back to me. Can someone tell me about their personal vocational rehab experience? What type of job did they find for you? If you had some experience and a post-secondary education, did they attempt to match you up with an appropriate position? Did they just find you a job washing pots and pans somewhere?

They paid my tuition to a vocational training program required in my state to obtain a license (which I already hold in another state). The operator of the training program continually discriminated against my autism during the entire process, finally blew up and screamed at me "Why can't you just be like everybody else!?" and refused to schedule my final test before a state inspector that would have completed the licensing process. The 'report card' statements sent to Vocational Rehab each month during the program contained clear evidence of the discrimination, yet when the operator breached the contract and refused to allow me to obtain my license, VR didn't even ask him for their money back. The very state agency supposedly designed to help those of us with disabilities just shrugged the whole thing off and left me to have to sue the training school by myself. I think they're worthless, spineless bureaucratic government employees paid to sit on their asses. They certainly are not the advocates for the disabled that they claim to be.

What a crappy experience. I actually had some "good jobs" but buckled under the social pressure. I was hoping that vocational rehab would help me find a job that would be a little more forgiving of my social awkwardness.

Geez, maybe I should get a job with the U.S. government and "pretend" to help people.

Gee , what a surprise. It is many yrs later and they still suck and are useless . You should see Cleveland's.. they never once answered the phones and then disconnected their number. Just shows that they can't 'handle' the problem, so shove it on to someone else. I know someone who had to move to FLA just to get decent diagnosis and REAL help. I was always willing to work and needed to work, while another person I know with another disability refused to work for '$2.20 an hour'. Parents should pay forever, for the life of their disabled child, which could be 60-70, 80 years. They had sex, they had children, it's on them. Not to mention how many parents totally ignored AS , autism, and/or denied it, leading to huge repercussions . No one is responsible for your kid, adult or otherwise. These 'programs' don't want the responsibility either. I told mine they should have thought of that when they were having sex, especially when these things are often genetic.

Usajobs.gov. Go for it. They sit and get raises each year and there are plenty of people with 'problems' who can only get a job in the govt.I should know, I worked for several govt. agencies.

. Parents should pay forever, for the life of their disabled child, which could be 60-70, 80 years. They had sex, they had children, it's on them. Not to mention how many parents totally ignored AS , autism, and/or denied it, leading to huge repercussions . No one is responsible for your kid, adult or otherwise. These 'programs' don't want the responsibility either. I told mine they should have thought of that when they were having sex, especially when these things are often genetic.[/quote]

You're kidding, right?
I hope so, if not, then thank you for making me feel like I have the most positive attitude EVER because I have worked very hard since I was 17 (now 52) and have continually tried to find the right situation, figure out how to adjust so things work out (still working on that) and not only supported myself, but raised three brilliant sons, but there were plenty of gliches along the way, not to mention evictions.
Life has ALWAYS been full of challenges and struggles, From the beginning of time, that is life. The living is in the trying, in the picking yourself up after you fall (or get knocked down). It's not fair, never was meant to be fair. To live by a label and blame or expect others to take responsibility only hurts you.

Be very clear you want help to find a living wage job. Most vocational programs will if you let them find you a job not a good paying job. Find out how much rent food car payment and so on are were you live and do the math. If they refuse to help with a proper paying job you will have to drop them and do it yourself. On a upbeat note they sometimes do pay for training if they think you can do it. Most will test and see if they can help. Some will drop you if do too well. Others will close 1 eye and refuse to help with jobs more than crap wages. And they move very slowly do not think it will take only a few months.
This was in the united states i hav no idea how it works in other places.