I get to work at the cash register next semester in school. We have a coffee shop run by special needs students at my school and I advocated for myself to get into a work program. So now I will be working in the coffee shop. I feel really happy and excited about this...hooray! We get extra help too from very nice non-condensending teachers so that we learn at our own pace to do basic real job skills (ex. count change, use a cash register, greet customers)
Wonderful! I hope you learn a lot and enjoy it. And be gentle with yourself.
Do you get free coffee too? :wink:
Hope you have fun :smile:
well done Cat :smile: and best wishes for the shop!
Stella
Congratulations and much success w/ your new adventure....keep us posted good and exhausting....
I remember my first job--the summer I turned 16. I worked in the office at an orphanage. They had about 10,000 index cards with the names and addresses of donors. This was 1966, and the USA had recently adopted the zip code system for mailings. So my job was to look up the zip code for all 10,000 donor cards, put them in zip code order and then, when new stencils got made, I had to re-alphebetize all the cards. Perfect job for an Aspie, now that I think about it.
I think that is great. I think that it important that they teach you how to greet customers and talk to them. Most jobs do not teach that. The training is often one day on cash register and how to stock the counters.
Most jobs, I would not know what to say to customers and just get "laid off" and be told "this just does not seem to be working out". No employers will not even hire me and their excuse if "you don't have any customer service experience."