You’re in a new golden age of online learning. You can study anywhere from community college to an Ivy League university now wearing nothing but a Gimp suit and a rubber chicken on your head.
Let’s narrow down the question: what do you think you’d like to study/where do your talents and passions lie, what continent are you on usually, and what do your grades/resume look like (nothing specific, just a great/good/okay/bad will suffice)?
Yeah I’m sorry I lost track, I thought that other user was you.
I’ll need a second to work through this, but like I told them, check out you vocational rehabilitation services. They’ll give you financial resources, job coaching, work assistants you help you integrate into the job/job site, and a lot of other helpful things. You may have to ride them a bit depending on the office though, because quality can vary, but they legally have to give you these things and they are federally funded to do so. You also legally have to be accommodated at work, so don’t worry too much.
So I’m going to start out and say follow the thread of working in social work, but in an area without the need of being super people-facing. This might be in:
-patient advocacy in the likes of a resource nursing position (but not in the social worker’s office of a hospital, which can be rough) where you help people fight crappy bills, get services and yell at insurance companies if need be.
-Policy and/or law training could let you be an advocate or lobbyist for a nature stewardship organization, or work in the administrative sections on your choice of trade unions.
-Another is librarianship/library sciences, which is also starting to have a foot in community care, or maybe combined with another area like legal librarianship or as an archivist at a school or museum. Immersive learning work/research might also put your artistic skills to uses that don’t interferes with your hobbies.
-Another area is in higher education administration doing D&I/student rights or immersive learning, an area desperate for people with disability experience.
-And, the king of all hermit jobs, regulatory compliance. Compliance reviewers may have to get licensed a bit, but it shouldn’t be anything to bad.
-[And lastly the most pie-in-the-sky option if you’re willing to stick out the schooling would be as a labor or disability lawyer, wherein you’d just sue companies for illegally firing people all day and stick it to bosses — absolute dream job but I can’t provide you any online options for law school. Maybe in 2025 when the ABA changes requirements.]
These are all jobs that 1) need disabled representatives in them 2) don’t require too much physicality 3) have fairly procedural methods of communicating with other parties or providing solutions to problems 4) often have automated methods of referring to information and supervisory experts to rely on and 5) pay decently and have robust online decreeing methods to the graduate level.
The VR services should also help you do some career exploration before compiling your individual employment plan (which you can always amend), as well as career services at whatever school you choose to attend.
Run some question through your head and let’s sorta dowse ourselves a direction to take here; Do you like helping others or working alone? Are you good at interpreting written material? Are you skilled at math? Do you like problem solving or more rote activities? Can you code/want to code? Like working with your hands? Are a visuospatial learner? Like nature? What kinds of jobs and hobbies have you had? Etc., etc.
This can be tough and fun, but do it and then get back to us.
Also, are you disabled or of a historically underrepresented population?
no, yes, more than average not by "sell math ability for a wage" standards. no, i can script kiddie but don't know enough to contribute to actual useful projects and i don't want to become an alcoholic, no, idk, no, ones that make me want to die no hobbies i'd want to do the job form of.
probably disabled but not in a way that we're advanced enough to do accommodation for or that i can get a government pittance over
Well I have some good news before I delve into further ideation!
You’re obviously very depressed, which if you’re in the US qualifies your for vocational rehabilitation through your state department of labor office. That alone will pay for all your tuition, books, housing and services. You’ll have to reach out and get an assessment through them, however. If you’re outside the US your country should have some version of this akin to those programs, as they’re the last remaining vestige of the New Deal here and they were copied by a lot of other governments.
i'm not actively suicidal and don't have an attempt so i don't score "depressed" enough on the assessments i've been given over the years to get adequate care.
Haven't tried the department of labor, but they've got a bunch of shit on here about "if you want to work" and "goals" while i'm under duress / don't want things and have never done that neurotypical goals bullshit, so that's not off to a promising start.
it's been years and i'm still burnt out on intake but maybe i'll forget that pain eventually and look into this. thanks i guess.
They can also work with you if you are in crisis and help you back to stability. They can even possibly determine you are unemployable in the absolute worst cases and arrange you onto social security, housing and medical care (trust me, you aren’t this). I can tell you you are perfectly qualified for services. There are people here and everywhere who can and want to help.
Forgive me for jumping in here but assessments suck ass, my advice is to always lie or exaggerate your symptoms/struggles if you have to so you can get whatever score you need to get care. The rule of thumb I use is to fill out the assessment based on my absolute worst possible day that I am being affected by my disability and/or neurodivergence.
If you need the care and accommodation then you deserve it yanno? if a score is keeping you from getting your needs met then play the game.
You’re in a new golden age of online learning. You can study anywhere from community college to an Ivy League university now wearing nothing but a Gimp suit and a rubber chicken on your head.
Let’s narrow down the question: what do you think you’d like to study/where do your talents and passions lie, what continent are you on usually, and what do your grades/resume look like (nothing specific, just a great/good/okay/bad will suffice)?
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Yeah I’m sorry I lost track, I thought that other user was you.
I’ll need a second to work through this, but like I told them, check out you vocational rehabilitation services. They’ll give you financial resources, job coaching, work assistants you help you integrate into the job/job site, and a lot of other helpful things. You may have to ride them a bit depending on the office though, because quality can vary, but they legally have to give you these things and they are federally funded to do so. You also legally have to be accommodated at work, so don’t worry too much.
Get back to you in a sec.
I looked up that service you mentioned, thats a really good resource to have thanks a lot.
Also no rush! I really appreciate your input.
So I’m going to start out and say follow the thread of working in social work, but in an area without the need of being super people-facing. This might be in: -patient advocacy in the likes of a resource nursing position (but not in the social worker’s office of a hospital, which can be rough) where you help people fight crappy bills, get services and yell at insurance companies if need be.
-Policy and/or law training could let you be an advocate or lobbyist for a nature stewardship organization, or work in the administrative sections on your choice of trade unions.
-Another is librarianship/library sciences, which is also starting to have a foot in community care, or maybe combined with another area like legal librarianship or as an archivist at a school or museum. Immersive learning work/research might also put your artistic skills to uses that don’t interferes with your hobbies.
-Another area is in higher education administration doing D&I/student rights or immersive learning, an area desperate for people with disability experience.
-And, the king of all hermit jobs, regulatory compliance. Compliance reviewers may have to get licensed a bit, but it shouldn’t be anything to bad.
-[And lastly the most pie-in-the-sky option if you’re willing to stick out the schooling would be as a labor or disability lawyer, wherein you’d just sue companies for illegally firing people all day and stick it to bosses — absolute dream job but I can’t provide you any online options for law school. Maybe in 2025 when the ABA changes requirements.]
These are all jobs that 1) need disabled representatives in them 2) don’t require too much physicality 3) have fairly procedural methods of communicating with other parties or providing solutions to problems 4) often have automated methods of referring to information and supervisory experts to rely on and 5) pay decently and have robust online decreeing methods to the graduate level.
The VR services should also help you do some career exploration before compiling your individual employment plan (which you can always amend), as well as career services at whatever school you choose to attend.
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No prob!
no idea never had an idea/ no special talent no passion.
Boom, police officer.
No! In all seriousness, phooey.
Run some question through your head and let’s sorta dowse ourselves a direction to take here; Do you like helping others or working alone? Are you good at interpreting written material? Are you skilled at math? Do you like problem solving or more rote activities? Can you code/want to code? Like working with your hands? Are a visuospatial learner? Like nature? What kinds of jobs and hobbies have you had? Etc., etc.
This can be tough and fun, but do it and then get back to us.
Also, are you disabled or of a historically underrepresented population?
no, yes, more than average not by "sell math ability for a wage" standards. no, i can script kiddie but don't know enough to contribute to actual useful projects and i don't want to become an alcoholic, no, idk, no, ones that make me want to die no hobbies i'd want to do the job form of.
probably disabled but not in a way that we're advanced enough to do accommodation for or that i can get a government pittance over
Well I have some good news before I delve into further ideation!
You’re obviously very depressed, which if you’re in the US qualifies your for vocational rehabilitation through your state department of labor office. That alone will pay for all your tuition, books, housing and services. You’ll have to reach out and get an assessment through them, however. If you’re outside the US your country should have some version of this akin to those programs, as they’re the last remaining vestige of the New Deal here and they were copied by a lot of other governments.
i'm not actively suicidal and don't have an attempt so i don't score "depressed" enough on the assessments i've been given over the years to get adequate care.
Haven't tried the department of labor, but they've got a bunch of shit on here about "if you want to work" and "goals" while i'm under duress / don't want things and have never done that neurotypical goals bullshit, so that's not off to a promising start.
it's been years and i'm still burnt out on intake but maybe i'll forget that pain eventually and look into this. thanks i guess.
They can also work with you if you are in crisis and help you back to stability. They can even possibly determine you are unemployable in the absolute worst cases and arrange you onto social security, housing and medical care (trust me, you aren’t this). I can tell you you are perfectly qualified for services. There are people here and everywhere who can and want to help.
Forgive me for jumping in here but assessments suck ass, my advice is to always lie or exaggerate your symptoms/struggles if you have to so you can get whatever score you need to get care. The rule of thumb I use is to fill out the assessment based on my absolute worst possible day that I am being affected by my disability and/or neurodivergence.
If you need the care and accommodation then you deserve it yanno? if a score is keeping you from getting your needs met then play the game.
This is good advice. It’s not cheating or lying if you’re sick or disabled, it’s leveling the playing field.