Zeno,
I assume you're 35 and been unemployed for 5 years? How many years have you actually been in work? I've been in work for over a decade, part-time (during studies) and full-time (after studies). I have my doubts that you have more experience than me. You certainly have more experience being unemployed than me, for what that's worth. Even if you do have more work experience, you obviously haven’t learnt to manage your shortcomings.
As I've mentioned before, I have struggled immensely with relationships at work, which affected other areas of my work, but as time has gone by I learned to develop strategies to cope. It is this learning experience during the earlier years, which helped me to wisely choose the career I have. If you had real work experience before/whilst studying would you have stuck with your chosen career path in finance? I doubt it. (actually, maybe you wouldn’t have acted on it, for obvious reasons). I think experience is invaluable and many who use this forum are really lucky to be getting advice from experienced aspies. Particularly users who spend an eternity studying, get straight A’s, but when it comes to the real world they get destroyed. If they listen to advice now they can save themselves a lot of heartache for the future. They’d still struggle now and then, but at least it’s not as hard as it could have been.
I was a bit annoyed at your previous response, but my reaction (previous post) was poor; it was in the heat of the moment and a bit over the top. But why do you say my reaction was ‘good’? What ‘resentment’?
I ask you how would you feel if you tried to offer good advice to someone, but they turned around and slapped you in the face? You have been spiteful, rude and ungrateful, and I’m wondering why I’m still responding to you....
24 Sep 2008, 2:18 pm
