Do you enjoy your job?

I think I would enjoy my job. I certainly enjoy my area of study that I hope and had planned would lead to a job. I am qualified enough for the job I want, but lack the experience.

When you have no experience in an area and are more complex for people to take on, in other words disabled.

They often find excuses not to take you. A small problem that was easily explained in my birth certificate, was given as the reason I didn’t get a job with an agency highering as students a few years ago. Later I realised this reasoning made no sense, and that they probably didn’t want to take me on because realistically it would be very difficult for them to find me any work.

I want to be able to work, and despite being overqualified for many jobs in my area those I have gone for often seem to critique me for this lack of experience. Jobs in other areas are still often reluctant to higher me, due to my general lack of work experience.

It is so important that as I disabled individuals I have to make sure that any work I would actually get would not put my benefits at risk, or increase my contribution to my own care. As these elements are important for now I live in my day to day lives.

If I were able to find work that I could do, whether the actual setting of the job and the work I would conduct, would only be the first level of inacessiblity that I need to consider. I would also have to consider how different jobs world impact me. For example, part time work for example may be inaccessible to me depending on how many hours I work, due to the effect it has on my overall income. But full time work may be to much for me to physically handle.

What is clear is the inacessiblity of work, and living on benefits as a disabled person in society, makes the task of finding work a lot more complex for me as a disabled person; as already part of a very complex system. This is all before I have even discussed the social value and status that is awarded to those who work, and often denied to those who are on benefits, particularly disabled individuals.

A lot of ignorant opinions view disabled people as looking for not having to work, when the reality is for various reasons they are not able. This makes up what can be seen as two very different sides of the same coin.

The truth is I really just want my own income, I want to be able to earn my own money, be responsible for my own income, and at least somewhat support myself.

Though I’m not sure if this will ever happen, I try to have hope, and on the good days it’s easy to believe that it will be true.