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Skills
-Animal care
-Organization
-Cleaning
-Performing (Acting, impersonating characters)
-Driving
-Delivering
About
My name is Margery. I'm 32 years old and on the autism and adhd spectrum. Needless to say, it's very difficult for me to find stable work that I can also consider enjoyable. I got my start working at the Chop Shop, a former food preparation kitchen in Birmingham Michigan which has then been sold and closed down. I did that for a couple of years.
I have retail experience from working for Party City and as a cashier at a hospital cafeteria, but I would strongly like to not go through that again. Whether you worked a few weeks or a few years in it, retail jobs are always hell and I don't wish them on my worst enemies.
For five years, I've worked at a hospital as a food runner. It provided me with customer service skills and permanent trauma and I've been forced to put my life at risk and work through the pandemic because they didn't want to fire me. 0/10 do not recommend. Leaving that job vastly improved my health mentally.
The best job I can honestly say that I enjoyed was working as a scarer for Universals Halloween Horror Nights. Alas, there's no demand for that job year round so that only lasted me a couple of months.
Right now, I've been doing gig jobs that don't require me to fill out applications and be interviewed prior to working. The first is Lyft, where I drive people around town and the second is Rover, where I watch after peoples dogs for them.
The kinds of jobs I'm interested in are remote jobs, library jobs, museum jobs, theater jobs, and front desk jobs. When I'm working a job that I like, I can provide customers with the best service and not feel as drained at the end of the day. It's just very hard for me to reach out to jobs like these because often times they want somebody who is perky and bubbly and that is definitely not me. Regardless though, people like me also need to work so to deny us employment due to a lack of certain personality traits comes off as somewhat ableist.
Also, employers have got to stop with this whole 'You shouldn't be in this for the money mentality'. Sir, that's literally the only reason why anybody ever applies to work for you in the first place. We all need money to pay our bills. You think we're in this for the free water bottle with your company logo on it? I'm sorry to break this to you, but no.
I don't want to join anyones 'family', I just need a workplace where I clock in, work, then clock out, simple as that.
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