Since it was requested by tenaciouscj, I will post a small update in my current job getting situation. Since the original post mysteriously dissapeared I will post a bit of backstory aswell. (This may take a few posts so bear with me)
After getting sacked from my previous job (working in a warehouse, extremely boring), I have been on the search for a job. I had some problems getting motivation to do it, possibly because of a fear of failure (whether I could first get and then carry out its duties)
After getting shouted at alot by my parents, on a shopping outing with my mum she took me to a youth centre thing, which helps the young look for jobs. They suggested I take a course which taught me interview skills and so on and guaranteed a job at the end. So two weeks later I turned up at a small interview thing with the guy who ran it and he said the course would start in January and that he would phone me the next week to confirm it.
This is where I left you.
He rang the next week but I wasn't in so my brother answered, he told me that the guy would ring back, but he never did (turned out his dad died so he wasn't working). I never heard anything from them again.
In the meantime I was diagnosed with AS.
Since my dad had started shouting again, on another shopping trip we went into the youth centre thing again, which directed us instead to the main office of the people who ran the course (which happened to be just around the corner), so we went there.
After climbing 6 flights of stairs we were in.
My mum asked the woman at the desk about the course and she said that it was fully booked for January and that I would have to wait until Febuary. She began to sort me out with that course when mum mention my being an aspie to her. She said that she had something that was alot better for me than that course, which would help me find a job with specific needs in mind and one that I would hopefully enjoy. I am now waiting on a phonecall.
Hmm, I hope they aren't just giving you the runaround and are going to give you some good training. Too bad your parents couldn't learn to stop shouting at you. Apart from it being very rude, it is a waste of time. If anybody shouts at me, they would live to regret it.
Well it is an organisation built solely for getting local people into local jobs, so I hope they aren't giving me the runaround (If I have guessed correctly what that means). I'm just hoping that they will live up to the promise that they will find a job I will enjoy.
As for my parents, that is just what my dad does. He has started to calm down a bit more recently.
I turned out I was going on that course, and it started today and will last 2 weeks.
It was ok, but I never realised how different aspie and NT brains are. Every single thing said by the guy doing the course for 4 hours applied to NTs only. It was even brought up by somebody, when the guy was discussing how NT brains process sensory and other information. All the guy said in reply was "we have names for those people", I don't know what he meant by that. I don't know whether this course will help me.
Oh dear! Seems as if the presenter isn't too well-versed in the different ways people process information. Apart from autism, there are several different sensory preferences for absorbing information and it is disappointing that he doesn't seem to realise this. Anyway, I hope the course will improve for you.