Sunday, June 2, 2013

Jobs

Unedited: i have recently relized that it is going to be hard for me to find any job that has writeing in it because i have a hard time with spelling and grammer. the problem is that if i want an internship or when im writeing books or research papers it takes a lot more to edit those papers then it does for someone else so why hire someone that it will be harder to hire. my aunt had a job opeaning and she offered it to my cousin its simmlar to a internship and she told me when i aked what the job was that it ws answering calls and responding to emails so i made the joke that i would be hoorible for thaat because i cant spell and thats when she said thats what made her pause is asking me because she couldent check all the emails for errors so i wouldent be the best person to hire she was nice about it and the fact that she doesnt want to hire me it was the relization that this wont be the first time this will happen that upsets me its frustrating that something i have little to no controll of can affect my future.

Edited: I have recently realized that it is going to be hard for me to find any job that has writing in it because I have a hard time with spelling and grammar. The problem is that if I want an internship or when i'm writing books or research papers, it takes a lot more for me to edit those papers then it does for someone else. So why hire someone that it will be harder to hire. My aunt had a job opening and she offered it to my cousin. It's similar to an internship and she told me when I asked what the job was that it was answering calls and responding to emails, so I made the joke that I would be horrible for that because I can't spell, and that's when she said that's what made her pause in asking me because she couldn't check all the emails for errors. So I wouldn't be the best person to hire. She was nice about it. The fact that she doesn't want to hire me, it was the realization that this won't be the first time this will happen that upsets me. It's frustrating that something I have little to no control of can affect my future.

2 comments:

  1. Hi there. I read your posts with thanks. You highlight many issues that I fear for my son. He is 15 in a weeks time, and has very bad dysgrapia. He is dyslexic and dyscalculic too and to a certain extent has problems with dyspraxia in general - walks into things, falls off bikes, skateboards more than the usual amount etc!
    We have come to the realisation that he won't even be able to take standard examinations because he has a short term memory issue too, so note taking is out of the question on a normal day to day situation, as is remembering what has gone on. Because of this he won't be able to complete 2 years worth of study and remember enough to make it through the exam… but I think this is a good thing.
    He wasn't diagnosed until April this year (2013) and although we knew there was something up, we carried on teaching him as we thought fit. He hasn't had any stigma, knocks to his confidence through bullying in school or other internal self image troubles and the first thing he said when we got the diagnosis was " You see??!!! I told you I couldn't write!!" and laughed! We were really relived.
    It has taken a lot of pressure off of us as his educators (we home school) and also from him worrying about exams or what he's going to do. He has immediately relaxed and chucked his geography, history and maths books in the bin.
    This doesnt mean that he doesn't have to learn stuff… oooooh no!! LOL
    He learns things from google, wikipedia and a lot of youtube. I set him on a 'handwriting' course of colouring pictures… quite detailed ones where I ask him to draw over the outlines of the picture and then colour between the lines and NOT go outside of them. This has helped him and he has got a little better and quicker at doing this so I am really glad.
    Also we got him to do maths with kahn academy online for free… his pace and with lots of videos as he is a visual learner more than anything else.

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  2. We also have him learning to play piano. I am a piano teacher and he never ever wanted to learn, but I thought it would maybe help his hand eye coordination and to be honest I am surprised how he is getting it together. Dyspraxic's often don't have great rhythm but this is starting to improve too. I am not sure we will make any major improvements and he still pretty much can't write his name legibly, but he is persevering and not giving up. I get him to use wizards spell too for spelling. These ideas might give you a hand too… I don't know, but I thought I would let you know you are not alone.
    Regarding jobs, my husband has a jewellers and we have a tablet linked up to a label printer so that he can type ion the customers name and details and then print it out to go on the order or repair bag… this works well. It looks like our company is actually really slick too and techno forward hee her!
    We are getting him to spend the morning once a week with our clockmaker too. This is something he can do and you don't need qualifications to run your own business. How about thinking about something like that? Its a dying art and a clock service is usually about £125 in our shop… thats a sweet amount of money for 20 minutes work!!! We get about 5 clocks in a week come into our shop for repair or servicing… but our clockmaker does work for 10 jewellers… this is pretty awesome! He has a nice house and a nice car and he started doing it as a hobby!!!
    There are ideas out there… jewellers are another job where you can learn your skills sitting next to a jobbing jeweller. They are jobs where the skills are passed from person to person rather than from a book and pen to an exam hall. have a think about jobs which don't need a lot of writing.. shop work obviously… building and construction or plumbing etc. Then rather than go to college or uni to learn your trade, ask a local tradesman to teach you. You will be surprised how many would be prepared to take you on.
    anyway, I wish you luck and keep writing the blog. Honestly you are a lone voice out there, but not alone in your struggle.
    x
    Bunny

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