~Opinions~

I am actually getting a bit sick of unhelpful comments re: Possum and his work situation

What I find really aggravating is the trotting out of the same lines that may have applied to life 20 or 30 years ago

Even more interesting is the fact that everyone appears to have forgotten that Possum is not your 'off the shelf, same as every other' 20 year old 

It makes me crazy 

He has a brilliant mind

I found a report the other day from the school psychologist conducted when he was 8 year old - describing his 'superior' intelligence in almost all areas (except for tasks which required sustained attention/organisation.....no really?? haha!)


He is not particularly a 'people person', he likes the company of others, but seems equally happy without it.  
He doesn't do the 'super confident' walk in somewhere and ask if they have any work available, and just thinking about it sends him into near panic, because that's Possum - Possum is Possum - he is not you, not his father, not his brother, and not his mother or anyone else.


People just don't seem to get that even to be a cleaner these days you need a Cert III or 10 years experience - and you can't just pick up a few hours of 'bar work' or what have you without experience or a licence for this that or the other.  
It would also be a massive waste of time for him to go back to school and study for anything other than IT related courses.  
It is also the middle of the year. 
Pretty sure the school years starts in February, unless he wants to pay thousands to do a private course....oh but that's right he has NO INCOME...oh see I am just 'making excuses' for him now.

People don't seem to realise that I have helped Possum register for:
Seek, CareerOne, Skilled, Hays, JET, Searson Buck, Mycareer.......just to name a few. 
We get job alerts for suitable positions and he has been in to Hays recruitment for an interview.

He has applied for around 7 IT jobs in almost 5 months, has had 2 interviews, didn't get an interview for 2, and waiting on a response from the others.

We have also submitted his resume/applied online to: Hungry Jacks (x 2 different stores), Coles (he took his resume in to the store), Kmart, Domino's, the Country Club Casino, Village Cinemas...

While he needs to be doing something, putting him into the WRONG thing would destroy his confidence.

I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this??

I appreciate people asking if he has found a job etc, just don't need to comments that follow, or the assumption that it's laziness.
Lazy? The boy worked for the last few months of high school, and all the way through college, sometimes finishing college for the day and going straight to work until god knows what hour of the night.  He did this for 2.5 years.

Yes he does like to sleep in.  
Big deal.  
Get over it. 
He won't be doing it when he gets a job, so what of it? 
Getting up earlier isn't going to make a job available for him, and anyone that thinks he doesn't care or doesn't want to work doesn't know him too well.

The End.

G
xx