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[king_gravewater]

I have grown very tired of my present living environment, for a number of reasons.

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[couldbecousin]

Blecchhh, service agencies that don't do anything, you probably remember my own complaints from last April about the vocational rehab. Part of the trouble for me is that my mind tends to circle and circle my problems without actually landing in one spot long enough for me to get specific enough about what kind of help I need. It never occurred to me to ASK the vocational counselor if someone at the agency would sit with me and explain in detail all the possible jobs on the very long list generated by the aptitude test. That is the kind of help I needed but I just never thought to ask for it clearly enough. Of course, some people don't help you no matter how specific you are. *sigh* going to bed now, back to work tomorrow. Because NO career counseling firm, no matter how much they charge, will EVER do more for me than the state agency did! She said it, I damn well better believe it! *rolls eyes*

[king_gravewater]

Yes, I remember your litany of complaints about the vocational rehab people. And where they are concerned, blaming yourself for your problems with them is not going to help. They know you have autistic-like features, so they should have been able to incorporate ways of dealing with that into what they do. There would be no point in getting help in finding a job from such people if they cannot even figure out how to deal with communicative difficulties that you present. In fact, it is a pretty sad end that our species has come to, where people are literally unable to understand that just because we are both speaking English does not necessarily mean that we speak the same language

[couldbecousin]

*sigh* I would like to think that a private career-consuktation firm would at least, for the right amount of money, take the time to discuss several career options IN DEPTH and try to match one to my personality database...I never even had a database of all my traits at the rehab place, just files and test results and a counselor who would occasionally look up a few things online and then basically shrug and tell me I had to JUST DO IT!!!!! *rolls eyes* Anyway, my leaving that curt voicemail requesting termination of my case was one of the few instances in my life of my reacting with appropriate indignation to someone else's disrespect, so at least I have that to be proud of. :D

[king_gravewater]

Ah, but that is the problem. The people who are most in need of so-called career counselling are also those with the least amount of monehy to fund it. And I have a boatload of sources that your counsellor could read and learn that the myth that anyone does anything entirely on their only is exactly that: a myth. People live, work, play, and die in groups. The problem we as a society are having now stems from the fact that when you weaken one sector or member of the group, you do not merely weaken that one part. You weaken the whole group. I am actually getting ready to pack up and leave the city I am in because of the inability of people to recognise this.

[couldbecousin]

Yeah, I hate that whole up-by-your-bootstraps mentality that seems to be everywhere, the whole condescending attitude of "You can't expect people to hold your hand." I just needed more time and information than anyone there was willing or able to spare. Certainly if I had been a counselor there I would have made it my business to establish a database of everything the client told me about himself, so I could then match him to a career that looked suitable. It would not have been the only step, but at least I would have had all the client's information recorded in one place. When exact fit between client and job is the priority, one cannot afford to rely on one's jumbled memory. Ah well...

[king_gravewater]

One of the biggest problems is that rich people are always whining about how they are taxed too much, but when their taxes are cut we are the ones who end up paying for it in the form of less services or less adequate services. Even more irritating is the myth they have perpetuated that if they somehow get more money, it trickles down to the poorer 99% of society. Well, nice theory, but in practice the rich can enjoy exploding incomes and contribute even less to charity or other such services. If we could get the government to knuckle up and tax the rich at 1960s levels again, we could then fund programs that get training and jobs to every person who wants or needs them. And the first thing on the list would be to train social service people who understand the desperation their clients feel.