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Finding employment
Sun, 02/10/2019 - 18:18Most of my seziures occur at night, but they are regarded as uncontrolled, so I can’t drive. As a result of a grand maul seziure as an infant, I suffer from short term memory impairment, and facial blindenes( being able to tell people apart, google it to find out more). I’m a slow learner as a result of my memory impairent, so I don’t pick up on new things quickly. As a dishwasher, it tool a good 7 months to remember where all the dishes in the cafeteria go, and after 5 years, I still have to have people remind me. I have difficulty remembering or recognizing people. I spent three weeks in paid training at the airport helping escort handicap passangers. However, I couldn’t remember all the differnt safety protocal and had trouble recognizing which passanger I was helping. I can’t go inot any job that requires driving, so I’m limited to what ever happens to be located along the city busline. I’ve been through multiple caseworkers over five years, but nobody has been able to help me find a job I would be capable of that would provid insurence, and pay a living wage. Employers and co-workers can also get frustrated with having to constantly remind you how to do things. I’m out of ideas of what insurence providing jobs to look at that I am capable of.
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For me, the biggest problem
Submitted by msanders21989 on Tue, 2019-02-12 - 06:52
For me, the biggest problem is pay rate ( would need to make about $13-15/ an hour at 40 hours a week, and insurence? Who has suggestions of places that offer both that suite what my needs being?
I understand all of your
Submitted by Misjoey101 on Fri, 2019-02-15 - 13:36
I understand all of your struggles. I was just fired from a position because I hadn't mastered their courses by month 2 and couldn't pick up the names of new kids within 5 minutes. I don't know where you live but, CA has a department that helps people with disabilities find jobs and the usajobs website will post advertisements when they need to hire someone with disabilities. I'd get apart of those programs(or whoever is in your state).
I completely understand how
Submitted by NeuroscienceLife on Sun, 2019-02-10 - 19:50
I completely understand how you are feeling. I have been looking for employment but nobody wants someone that cannot remember things or is having difficulty visually at times. I am out of possible ideas as well. I was thinking about taking a bus into my local city to do janitorial work, but my career plan of being a emt is flushed because they require all emergency medical personal in my area to have a drivers license. You are not alone on feeling sad and confused.