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Not practical?

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I've contacted a centre which specializes in Learning Disabilities. But the only help they can give is "teaching people skills to start their own business" like sewing/ handicraft and baking! I think it's not practical for 3 reasons
1)Nobody buys much handicraft nowadays.

2)I have to take a long time learning skills which is time consuming and the lessons probably aren't free which means I have to spend money instead of getting paid. I've already been unemployed for 11 years!

3)Baking?In the kitchen?! No way! I'd probably forget to turn off the gas or leave something on that might blow up the place sky high.

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Re: Not practical?

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I have to agree that those are pretty poor options to be given as self start career choices. They are better as hobbies, really. And I agree, even being careful, the baking option can be a problem for some of us, as forgetting to turn the heat off once can do some serious damage, so using an oven more often only increases the risk (although repetition does help you remember, so it might balance out if you took extra precautions, like using extra alarms to remind you to put the gas off.)

It's an odd set of choices. Not that I know the right set of choices, in all fairness.
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Some readers in the UK can take offence at the mention of 'Learning Disability' in a Dyspraxia forum
Dyspraxia is NOT a learning disability. Here the term learning disability is used to refer to someone with an IQ of less than 70. I believe this figure is very arbitrary and that folk with learning disabilities should be given the opprtunity and support to thrive and live independently, where possible.

Beyond the UK 'learning disability' is used as distinct from intellectual disability. Professionals in the UK coined Specific Learning Difficulty as a term to describe conditions such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia, where the individual affected, while intellectually capable is still experiencing difficulty functioning.
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Nowadays, only lazy people in the world do not earn, and it's a fact. You can make money everywhere, especially on the Internet.
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AKramer1983 wrote: Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:46 am Nowadays, only lazy people in the world do not earn, and it's a fact. You can make money everywhere, especially on the Internet.
Being a judgemental $%&@ is unacceptable

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Nowadays, only lazy people in the world do not earn, and it's a fact. You can make money everywhere, especially on the Internet. You look at how many online jobs are offered at various freelance sites. They also need to learn, starting with copywriters and ending with various web designers. You can look for something that is not heavy work, such as help for the disabled or something like that. Here's an example of such an organization . I think that you can always find a job everywhere; the main thing is to want it.

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Re: Not practical?

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As someone who was a copywriter/proofreader for a good few years, I can’t begin to explain how exasperated I get with ‘anyone can do copywriting on the internet’ statements.
No, not everyone can - you have to have a stable internet connection, be competent with a computer of a reasonably good spec, have the money to invest in programs like Word (or more specialised translation tools if you’re reading post-translation. And all that is before we get onto skills.

One in five people in the uk are living in poverty. Over 60% of those households have at least one adult in work (https://www.jrf.org.uk/data?f%5B0%5D=fi ... ator%3A918). Being out of work is not about laziness - it’s a systemic issue.

The lazy poor myth sustains because of personal bias. Books like Skint Estate by Cash Caraway, One in Five by Louisa Britain, Factfulness by Hans Rosling, and Utopia for Realists, all help to debunk this myth with statistical evidence and examples of personal experience. It’s probably worth reading at least one of these. If you’re really not a reader, the YouTube channel ‘Kurzgesacht’ does a video about UBI which covers why current support systems don’t work.
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And using the L word to suggest people with Dyspraxia are in any way lazy is just not acceptable
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Re: Not practical?

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Tom fod wrote: Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:58 pm And using the L word to suggest people with Dyspraxia are in any way lazy is just not acceptable
Exactly!
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