Autism News Comments 2006-11-21
My first job was an under-the table labor trash-cleanup job at the Orange County Fair Speedway. I also got an under-the table program selling job, which I did pretty well at – i don’t seem to be bad at sales jobs that don’t require customer relationships or rapport. Initial demographics at the trash cleanup job were stupid/reckless kids, convicts, goverment-benefit cheaters, and borderline mentally-ill, but it transitioned to illegal immigrants because they work better. $4.25/hr (minimum wage in early 90s), cash, no benefits, no job security, no taxes. The program selling job was strictly commision, cash same night. The demographics wasn’t as bad. My mother’s friend, charlie (he was working illegaly while on disability to support 8+ childeren – neverending sex, restaurant job took up legal work hours), hooked me up with these jobs (3-6 hrs/wk trash mostly, 6-12hrs on a concert week, 12-18hrs during fair week, 2-4 hrs/wk program selling). Autistic people will never handle food service, floor-salesperson, or customer service. Either get canned for incompentancy or experience rapid and deep burnout. At least I don’t handle these well. I handle telemarketing ok. Best uneducated jobs for autistic people is probably unskilled labor (shopping carts, garbage cleanup, farm work, dirt/rock hauling), under-the-table or at a startup / small family owned+operated business.
Spam works well for post-college jobs. Pseudo-spam does too (posting resume at all jobs sites and cheating with javascript popups / redirects and keyword spamming). If one sucks at the interviews, one can just drive lots of traffic to the resume and brute-force through 3-4 interviews per week. Job will likely be at a startup that is ignorant of liability and the world of lawsuits (hey if it wern’t for the lawyers, it would be guns instead) and doesn’t have a lot of required teamwork or have a lot of politics and policies.
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Good! Whine Whine Whine. Lawsuits like this help make austistic people more unemployable (or raise taxes or prices if the government adds them to the forced-employabily list). I do remember cub scouts (I assume Tiger Cubs is similar to cub scouts) being less restrictive than boy scouts. My boy scout troop (Slate Hill NY) was casual enough to accept atheists (I was atheist at the time). Troop 223 is not a casual troop. They are like Shenendehowa’s soccer team – they are so good that, in 2001, some of the MetroStars players (now Red Bull NY) knew names of about a third of that year’s roster, and this is a high school. They don’t have and don’t want to create resources or patience to handle inferiors. Auties and Aspie’s special-talents that may create a non-charity practical desire to deal with the disability – if they have one or more of such talents (most don’t) – are rarely exploitable by boy-scouts – phoenominal knot tying maybe but thats it.
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The should lose even without the missed deadline if it was an employer or private school. A public or charter school would be different. I hate hacks, even it would benefit me so I would prefer to see an upgrade of the uniform policy rather than an exemption. A lot of uniforms are really cheap though, especially low-end employers. For a charter school, maybe adding a jersey-like shirt would be good. Ever since I had money to buy my own clothes I’ve worn only soccer jerseys or basketball shirts and shorts. Many uniformed charter schools in Phoenix AZ let kids wear button-shirts, polo-shirts, or a t-shirt on pants, skirts (girls), or shorts (some limit shorts to april-october). Still a fixed color and style though. Jersey-type shirts (microfiber, hates irons and don’t need em’, comfortable, stain resistant) and heavy non-collared non-fleece casual shirts both look better than t-shirts, and button-shirts too if the person is overweight. Havn’t seen any yet though, and might not ever because I don’t ride the bus anymore.
