If you kill time, you’ll murder your future.
Up until the 1980’s it was common to put people with Down Syndrome into asylums. They never learned to read, talk, be toilet trained or do much of anything. They seemed to be content. They would sit in the corner and rock or wiggle their fingers in front of their eyes. Most died before the age of 21.
The singing cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans had a baby with Down Syndrome, which they refused to give up. Dale Evans wrote a book about the child’s two years of life. She began a revolution. Kids like my daughter Merrilee now learn to read to a fifth grade level, are toilet trained, and live to be at least 50.
Merrilee would sit in a corner and rock or wiggle her fingers in front of her face if she didn’t have something more interesting to do. Job seekers with down syndrome often end up doing something equivalent. They find an essentially useless, brainless task and concentrate on it. They don’t want to think. They just want to be doing SOMETHING.
Do you keep submitting the same resume online to hundreds of jobs with no result? Do you mail a resume to all the ads in the paper without getting an interview? Do you just watch TV because it is less painful than trying to get a job?
You really do have amazing potential. Sometimes discovering your talents is painful and difficult. Worse, trying to get paid for those talents the first time, before you have “experience”, can take the wind right out of your sails.
Try something new. Make a completely different resume and submit it a few places. Call a few companies and ask for the person who would be your new supervisor. Do some serious networking by having friends critique your resume for you. Study interviewing skills at the library. Read, “How To Win Friends and Influence People,” by Dale Carnegie. Read “Acres of Diamonds” by Russell Conwell (Google it)