Neurological Impaired/dyspraxic graduate's time wasted
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:14 pm
I am now 42 and graduated as a "mature" graduate with a first class honours degree in Politics aged 33.
In the intervening period I have either not worked or been underemployed. I am currently doing freelance research which is really a pittance.
(Although it supposedly promises to pay more at some point if they like you enough. I do not have unlimited reserves of patience.)
I have a neurological impairment which has some dyspraxic like facets which means that if I have too much multi tasking, have too little time to do things in or have to remember too many things for my short term memory to handle there can be problems. I was given things like extra time in examinations as my handwriting in these sort of conditions is not the best either.
My state school education was criminal in it's incompetence and my parents paid for me to go through university when I entered it 11 years later than I otherwise would have.
(After seeing a neuropsychologist in the early 90's and completing an Open University course to get into conventional university)
I thought that when I was doing a degree, as I am otherwise supposed to have above average ability, that I was doing something to extricate myself from places and situations that I do not like by getting into things that would play to my strengths that are only open to people with any degree.
So I thought this should mean that It should be easier to get into graduate recruitment but apparently you are supposed to provide evidence in the application forms of experiences that my neurocomplexity makes a hurdle such as tempting or doing unpaid internships (that can be far away with no guarantee of a position at the end of it?) which I thought I was doing a degree to avoid in the first place because the more generalised and automaton like the work the less likely I am to function well at it.
It could be said of course that I could do a very unskilled job but when you consider that both my parents had good jobs and I should take after them ,who acheived this without having degrees, the only reason why to date I have not equalled or surpassed them is because I was MADE neurodiverse by suspected asphyxiation of my brain during a difficult Ceasarian birth and considering in a local area my experience of "contempoaries" in my school years made me conclude they were totally malevolent (I have made a point of being no where near them in over 20 years) I am suspucious from pre university experience of the coarse redneck mentality to be found in the bottom ladder of the job market that is obnoxious towards anybody and anything that they dont really understand. (Which isnt very much.)
I am placed in this situation jobwise because a supposed Doctor when I was being born coudn't as far as I am concerned really do theirs.
(Although it would, even allowing for the passage of time, be difficult to prove legally.)
As with university the higher up the jobmarket you go the better the class of people you (or should) meet and work with :especially of course neurodiverse people.
A neurotypical person of similar ability just seems to get there as of almost natural right without being treated to the idiocies of people who "work" in jobcentres that are like seeing first aid officers instead of a top hospital consultant in how much they know and can really comprehend of things like this.
(I know when I'm getting a bog standard service compared to from something or somebody that is really switched on.)
There are enlightened graduate employers but the infrequency of vaccancies and their not involving uprooting present problems.
( If this condition did not exist I would have went to somewhere like America aeons ago!)
In the meantime you are supposed to have fall back positions.
( If your not part of some old boy network.)
Well I don't see myself being able to do particularly well in a graduate sales jobs or as a recruitment consultant for which there are a large number of vaccancies and in the absence of having the skills and knowledge provided by more vocational degrees such as law/medicine I do not understand how finding even suitable stopgap positions prior to getting what I would consider to be a real job with all that can come with it (A house/flat/car) nothing less than farcical.
DO NOT encourage neurodiverse people to go through the higher education system if this is going to happen.](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
In the intervening period I have either not worked or been underemployed. I am currently doing freelance research which is really a pittance.
(Although it supposedly promises to pay more at some point if they like you enough. I do not have unlimited reserves of patience.)
I have a neurological impairment which has some dyspraxic like facets which means that if I have too much multi tasking, have too little time to do things in or have to remember too many things for my short term memory to handle there can be problems. I was given things like extra time in examinations as my handwriting in these sort of conditions is not the best either.
My state school education was criminal in it's incompetence and my parents paid for me to go through university when I entered it 11 years later than I otherwise would have.
(After seeing a neuropsychologist in the early 90's and completing an Open University course to get into conventional university)
I thought that when I was doing a degree, as I am otherwise supposed to have above average ability, that I was doing something to extricate myself from places and situations that I do not like by getting into things that would play to my strengths that are only open to people with any degree.
So I thought this should mean that It should be easier to get into graduate recruitment but apparently you are supposed to provide evidence in the application forms of experiences that my neurocomplexity makes a hurdle such as tempting or doing unpaid internships (that can be far away with no guarantee of a position at the end of it?) which I thought I was doing a degree to avoid in the first place because the more generalised and automaton like the work the less likely I am to function well at it.
It could be said of course that I could do a very unskilled job but when you consider that both my parents had good jobs and I should take after them ,who acheived this without having degrees, the only reason why to date I have not equalled or surpassed them is because I was MADE neurodiverse by suspected asphyxiation of my brain during a difficult Ceasarian birth and considering in a local area my experience of "contempoaries" in my school years made me conclude they were totally malevolent (I have made a point of being no where near them in over 20 years) I am suspucious from pre university experience of the coarse redneck mentality to be found in the bottom ladder of the job market that is obnoxious towards anybody and anything that they dont really understand. (Which isnt very much.)
I am placed in this situation jobwise because a supposed Doctor when I was being born coudn't as far as I am concerned really do theirs.
(Although it would, even allowing for the passage of time, be difficult to prove legally.)
As with university the higher up the jobmarket you go the better the class of people you (or should) meet and work with :especially of course neurodiverse people.
A neurotypical person of similar ability just seems to get there as of almost natural right without being treated to the idiocies of people who "work" in jobcentres that are like seeing first aid officers instead of a top hospital consultant in how much they know and can really comprehend of things like this.
(I know when I'm getting a bog standard service compared to from something or somebody that is really switched on.)
There are enlightened graduate employers but the infrequency of vaccancies and their not involving uprooting present problems.
( If this condition did not exist I would have went to somewhere like America aeons ago!)
In the meantime you are supposed to have fall back positions.
( If your not part of some old boy network.)
Well I don't see myself being able to do particularly well in a graduate sales jobs or as a recruitment consultant for which there are a large number of vaccancies and in the absence of having the skills and knowledge provided by more vocational degrees such as law/medicine I do not understand how finding even suitable stopgap positions prior to getting what I would consider to be a real job with all that can come with it (A house/flat/car) nothing less than farcical.
DO NOT encourage neurodiverse people to go through the higher education system if this is going to happen.
