job market is a pain in the butt.

[eonbus]

applying to jobs is considerate discrimination of what the employees are looking for. its a shame. but you know what, they should of not denied. the job market is still gonna be corrupted until the end of time. thanks to our wonderful government.

 

[Crossbreed]

It is an inherent limitation in laissez faire capitalism. It is the same as how many of us were picked last for game teams in school. If there are more openings than people, we eventually get picked. If there are more people than openings, we do not.

 

[Judge]

Frankly I thought the job market changed for the worse around the turn of the century with the use of high technology to more effectively screen out most applicants whether one is referring to the public sector or the private sector.

Government policies and national economies inherently ebb and flow...enabling and prohibiting the process depending on a variety of circumstances. Otherwise you are left with present-day statistics reflecting aggregate unemployment between nations like the US (4.9%) and Britain (5.1%) as being relatively close in percentages. Yet they reflect somewhat different political and economic systems.

No matter how much unemployment may fall with economic prosperity, the technology used to filter people out so effectively won't likely be proportionately declining.

 

[Crossbreed]

That is why I limit the use of my real name on the internet. I only use it on pages that are professionally flattering.

 

[Robby]

It's largely because of unfair trade deals which were passed without any vote by the general public and which have outsourced all the steady good paying jobs overseas to Asia. That's why the only jobs available today are low paying non-union jobs that are basically crap.

 

[midlife aspie]

Don't forget 40 years of flat or declining wage growth, combined with increased productivity to better line the pockets of the slave drivers!

 

[Judge]

Don't forget 40 years of flat or declining wage growth, combined with increased productivity to better line the pockets of the slave drivers!

Well, with a persistent GDP hovering little more than two percent, there's not a lot of prosperity to go around. It's why some economists honestly feel that the nation never actually exited the Great Recession.

And then all those creative folks who some 30 years ago learned to downsize just to improve a bottom line- even if it wasn't warranted. Different times from 50s and early 60s prosperity. Then factor in all those manufacturing jobs lost that went overseas.

Pain in the butt? It's a catastrophe to me personally. Has been for many years.

 

[Andrew206]

The job market has been tough for me. For the last 8 years, I've only been able to work a low-paying food service utility job Monday through Friday. It's a lot of stress, and there's a lot of other people working there. Most of them aren't on the spectrum.

 

[wanderer03]

The job market has been tough for me. For the last 8 years, I've only been able to work a low-paying food service utility job Monday through Friday. It's a lot of stress, and there's a lot of other people working there. Most of them aren't on the spectrum.

Yes, it's very tough but at least you have regular work that you can do. I would not be able to tolerate the level of social interaction in the food service industry. My hat is off to you for being able to function in the environment that you're in. I lasted a week at a Sam's Club so I learned retail is definitely out. Before my big meltdown, I worked in IT. After my meltdown, I couldn't go back.

I work two part-time jobs: a bus driver and a train crew transporter. When I can get hours, the bus driving gig pays decently at 14.30 an hour and the stress is usually tolerable. The train crew gig pays horribly (8.43 per hour while waiting, 0.23 a mile while driving) but there is no stress and it is kind of fun to work around the trains. The paycheck from the train crew gig can be disheartening. At least as a driver, I am in command so I don't really have to give super good customer service. If I have an unruly passenger, I can give them the option of behaving themselves or kicking them off.

 

[wanderer03]

Well, with a persistent GDP hovering little more than two percent, there's not a lot of prosperity to go around. It's why some economists honestly feel that the nation never actually exited the Great Recession.

And then all those creative folks who some 30 years ago learned to downsize just to improve a bottom line- even if it wasn't warranted. Different times from 50s and early 60s prosperity. Then factor in all those manufacturing jobs lost that went overseas.

Pain in the butt? It's a catastrophe to me personally. Has been for many years.

When they say the nation exited the Great Recession, I definitely don't believe them. If anything, downward pressure on wages increased. It's made things already difficult for some people on the spectrum to near impossible. I'm working two part time jobs to barely make ends meet.

 

[Judge]

I've had to fend for myself since 2001. Never found employment again through another party over a series of unfortunate circumstances. It's a subject I seldom go into detail about. At my age, health insurance concerns of prospective employers have made it all much worse. No one is eager to hire people my age for anything on a full time basis.

Frustrating, humiliating...devastating.

Presently I find myself running out of both time and money.

 

[Bellatrix]

It doesn't help matters when almost every single position for which I am actually qualified, and could therefore apply for, requires the applicant to be someone who is "a team player with excellent communication skills", and who will end up basically running the entire office even though it is nothing more than a lousy, low-paid, low-grade administration position.

 

[wanderer03]

It doesn't help matters when almost every single position for which I am actually qualified, and could therefore apply for, requires the applicant to be someone who is "a team player with excellent communication skills", and who will end up basically running the entire office even though it is nothing more than a lousy, low-paid, low-grade administration position.

I don't understand the emphasis on teamwork in the workplace and I never will. I go to work for my own selfish reasons. I don't go there to help others get ahead.

 

[Crossbreed]

I don't understand the emphasis on teamwork in the workplace and I never will. I go to work for my own selfish reasons. I don't go there to help others get ahead.

You can do both...

(It IS in your best interest that your company succeeds.)

 

[midlife aspie]

The emphasis on teamwork is to promote increased productivity, which in turn increases profit, which in turn lines CEOs' already bulging pockets!

 

[Crossbreed]

The emphasis on teamwork is to promote increased productivity, which in turn increases profit, which in turn lines CEOs' already bulging pockets!

Is there a way to fill yours without lining his or hers? If you scuttle the business, you stop the latter, but you're not doing yourself any favors, either.

 

[wanderer03]

It's been my experience that teamwork has been a hinderance to my projects. I found myself waiting on others or having to cut through senseless red tape.

 

[wanderer03]

I've often found team members willing to dishonestly let others bare a disproportionate amount of the work and/or blame when things do not go as planned.

 

[Crossbreed]

Those are "teamwork in-name-only" and obstacles to true teamwork. If you make your company's known objectives to be your obsessions (at least, while on their clock), you can find workarounds. As an autie, don't expect your solutions to be intuitive to everyone else.

 

[wanderer03]

Those are "teamwork in-name-only" and obstacles to true teamwork. If you make your company's known objectives to be your obsessions (at least, while on their clock), you can find workarounds. As an autie, don't expect your solutions to be intuitive to everyone else.

Teamwork doesn't matter anymore. I left that life when I kicked corporate America to the curb. Now I drive for a living and much happier for it.