Can I start at the top please?

[mscleverclogs]

I don't know if this is just me or does anyone else relate to this.
I have had plenty of jobs and many where I have had an aim for a particular position. The problem with this is every time I go into a new job with no previous proof of any achievements as such, I find I have to start at the bottom and work my way up the ladder.
My Dilemma is the ladder is up side down. The position they put me in as to where I have to prove I can do this without any problem happens to be the place where I am not suited one bit at all.
I find that the job in which I am looking to do could be done with my eyes closed and hands tied behind my back yet I cannot reach this because this other position which is placed in front that people call the lower level tends to be all the wrong things for me to begin with.
I end up cocking up and the manager just has to tell me 'If you can't do this then you surely can't do that' wrong its the other way around for me. The problem is I have never been past first base to get to that position to be able to show them I could do it.
There was one job I did once and they actually put me on the higher position which to me was not actually higher but more suited to me.
I did this job with no problem and they were very impressed with how I picked things up so quickly.
later on down the line I moved to another branch where I was supposed to be doing the same roll but was moved into another position where everything started to go all wrong. I don't like been given multy tasking jobs and this is what happened.
I had to argue about my initial position and they said this one was already covered. This was not told to me beforehand. Obviously they thought, if I could do that job then I could do the other one much eaiser but this was not the case with me.
the job they wanted me to do was to deal with the public and do sales advising which I have a big problem with. The job I could do easily was to run a service operating machinery but kind of like a robot. I was good with the machinery but not with the people and sales.
Another job was merchandising as aposed to selling to customers. I told them I would like to be involved with merchandising as I had done it before and proved to do well.
In a previous job lots of products sold due to my eye catching displays but yet again I had to do more selling to prove I could make a display.
i am really sick of not being able to just work in the kind of work where it suits me.
I only recently found out I had symptoms of Dyspraxia and everything made so much sense to me.
Now I know I am Dyslexic, Dypraxic I have taken a course in massage to work for myself in the future and hope this is more me. I have proved to do so well and it is very rewarding as you have to consentrate in slowing right down and I find this so calming and my clients say I am confident and sympathetic.
Other jobs made my mind race too much. It is very theraputic for a dyslexic or Dyspraxic person to give and recieve massage and benefits them x

[Osymandus]

Sadly its teh old structire . You have to prove you can do teh hard job by doing the easy one ... duh do you not know we of ND status can do your so called hard job ha ha .
Its ho wteh old structure works and untill we get more recognition and understanding in the work place it will continuie to happen .
I also have Dyslexia and Dyspraxia as well so i know what you mean . Having worked in IT for 11 years it confused peopel i could do completcated stuff yet not the simply stuff

[mscleverclogs]

Yes that is exactly it. We can do the more technical and harder things yet simple things are difficult. Christ knows why. Could be because of a racing mind. It becomes so god damned boring that we switch off.
I used to take the machine apart and fix it when they had engineers who did that. I knew what was going wrong but when working with the public I found it difficult being verbal. All the wrong words come out and people constantly branded me as rude.
Sometimes people have to repeat everything to me as my processing skills are the worst.
I'd rather be outback working on machines or working on my own better still.
I get very uncomfortable working with others.

[Osymandus]

Snap we need teams of Austistic , Dyspraxic and Dyslexic people to work with . Then we would change teh world mwha ha ha !!!

[mscleverclogs]

Strange how more academic people seem to be in control of everything yet I think Dyslexics are more clever. I think we are less controling and not on a power trip like them.
I also have people getting jealous of me in jobs when I do my expertise.
They obviously cant have ago at doing something good themselves so they just stab people in the back. Those types always know how to do evil things to mess up your plans or work.
They don't know half of what I go through really.
As soon as someone appreciates me I always get another stab me in the back.

[Osymandus]

Pure academics , their not really in control . Plus Many of the worlds top mathematicians will have autism beyond normal levels . Aspergers certainly . Einstein was famously Dyslexic.
Its difficult to define what intelligence is . However being able to plan and co-ordinate and organise seems more a requirement to being hailed an intellectual these days and a leader .