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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.

[foxydanish]

What higher mark can you get besides a Pass Plus? That sounds pretty high to me haha.

I HATE being forced to work in groups! HATE IT! That is one of the things I absolutely despised about graduate school (though honestly, in the end, it actually ended up helping me out). Regardless, though, I still hate being forced to work in groups. It SUCKS.

Ew the social service people will never get it through their heads. Ever. Perhaps there will be SOMEONE who will, but just as a general rule, most of them are actually rather clueless from my experience.

[king_gravewater]

Quite a lot, actually. There are six columns and four categories. From right to left, right being the absolute lowest you can go, the six marks are No Evidence (NE), Fail (F), Pass (P), Credit (C), Distinction (D), and High Distinction (HD