Aspies For Freedom

okay, I'm kinda grateful that the place I work gave me a chance, and this is my first
(semi-real) job, but hang it all, I've had the biscuit. ALL of my co-workers are NT's
and the head of the hotel is a NT+. I've worked there 7 years and I know it's gonna
be hard to find a part time job that pays $500 a month, but I'm on my way out to somewhere (another job or more education). Why? well, I'm sure you can guess.
I have a BA in psychology, and I'm a custodian. I do the same thing I've been doing
for 7 years, picking up stuff, and cleaning-scraping out the parkade, mopping the hallways and in summertime, sweeping around the front of the hotel and picking ciggy butts out of the rocks in the front garden. This boss (head of housekeeping) is a royal pain. She gives everyone headaches. Always moaning and complaining about this, that and the other. She always tells me that I'm wasting time, that I'm not doing my job. Well, then, give me something else to do. How about when you sit down with the Boss and play that Mexican Train game after lunch? Isn't that a waste of time? Looks like to me....I've been there 7 years and I'm up to $10 an hour, still doing the same thing as I did from the beginning. sorry if I sound super-grumpy, but I am.It's down to the wire, folks. One housekeeper is leaving, and I'll be next.
J B

Have you not thought about going back into further education? That way you could maybe keep on the part time job and feel like you're doing something with yourself thats more related to your skills...

$10 an hour is pretty pathetic pay - I'd have thought they'd pay more as you've been there for such a long time.

yeah, thanks for the reply-I'll probably be going back to university in the fall (missed spring deadline)- maybe for the 4th year of my psychology degree {got the 3 year degree, but then the applied psychology thing came out...with...work-related experience}
oh, and yeah, $10 isn't much (up till last week, I got 9.50 an hour, so...plus i'm on social assistance. Anything over $400 a month, say the next $100 after that, they take at least $50 off your benefits cheque. That may be changing. we have an election in March...it may go up...I'm not worried. This boss does everything on the cheap. She was kind enough to get me an xmas gift-a $5 gift card for Tim horton's... well, it's something
here's to better times to come for us all

J B

Ah, at least you have university to go back to. I'm looking at my postgrad courses - if I don't get a first in my undergrad I'm not going to get automatic phd funding, so I'm going to apply for teacher training, working in special needs schools. At least my fees get paid even though I'll be another £4500 in student loans *sigh*.

Yeah the entitlement thing sucks re income and welfare. Its a really unfair dichotomy for some people when you really are better off unemployed because being an unskilled worker means having a crap pay. One of the Cabinet here in the UK has came up with this idiotic plan to evict those in social housing if they don't get a job - even though local authorities in the UK are legally obliged to house all homeless UK residents who haven't brought their homelessness on themselves its a vote catcher in middle England and completely unworkable, just like the white paper on taking away incapacity benefit and forcing people to get jobs. I hate New Labour.