At a few of my jobs I was considered one of the best workers. At other jobs I knew I was the worst. Some jobs I didn’t realize I was one of the worst until months or even years afterwards. At some of my jobs I could not learn some of the tasks though I was shown how to do them a half a dozen times. So jobs give you leeway some times.
When I worked at Kohl’s Department store for three years our crew often had to use hand-held computers to scan bar codes, print labels, and ticket items. I think I was the only person who couldn’t figure out how to set the computer up in the morning each time or how to boot it up. I think everybody else knew and I always had to ask someone else to do it for me. No one ever said anything but they sure noticed.
When I was working graveyard at Target for 8 months unloading trucks I was very confused by the stock numbers on each box we took off of the truck and I never knew which pallet to put it on out of 15 pallets. I was always asking for help from my co-workers. It was a complicated system but everybody else understood it but me. Eventually they took me off truck duty but they didn’t fire me, they just re-assigned me to work solely at stocking shelves. And even then my supervisor confided in me that the boss was probably going to fire me for being too slow.
So I made a conscious effort to work faster and it worked and I didn’t get fired. At my current job I pretty much understand everything and I do pretty good.
Really the only thing I can do is dishes/cleaning. I use to be a cashier at a bookstore but was pressured out cause I couldn’t get the numbers right. Was a stripper which I was not proud of but the money was nice and could handle the work ok. Everything else was kitchen work or cashier stuff.
Dish washing is not bad work. I’ve worked in 6 or 7 Department Stores unloading trucks or stocking shelves. A couple gas stations. Several restaurants.
I can hang on for a while delivering pizza as a job. The turn over in their work force is high, and they’ll usually hire just about anybody. They always need drivers. I too am slow on the uptake for a lot of things. I’ve done a little telemarketing, but I couldn’t make sales. That’s another one of those jobs that will hire just about anybody. I don’t know how it is now, after they passed a law restricting it. I’ve sacked groceries before. In high school I hauled hay in the summer. Back then hay bales were rectangular and weighed 66 lbs. It was hot, dirty work, but I enjoyed it.
I have had more jobs than I can count. When I was younger adult, I worked because I did not want to be homeless. But I would still take off and go far away or turn around and try to get another job.
My performance at work was ok, but I would freeze at home and would quit often. I did not have energy or support and I still had a deep loathing for myself.
As I have gotten older, I have left jobs for more reasonable reasons.
I like my current position. I work as a med tech for folks who have autism. When their up to it, we walk (for exercise) or work on photo contests.
Because of the sexual trauma I faced as a child (not by my aggressive father but an older cousin when I was five-eight), as a teen and as an adult, I suffer from intrusive thoughts often. The thoughts and tone are not mine; each one is harassing. Each one sneaks in and stuns me. I have to mentally coach myself not to dwell on them. I give myself feedback and tell myself to imagine thunderstorms from other parts of the world: what they would sound like or feel like. The sexually intrusive thoughts did not start until my last sexual trauma about 12 years ago. Before that I was a head-mess.
I still manage to work. Sometimes I think it’s because I have seen a lot of slackers. I also know my work routine.
I started washing dishes when I was 12 for a chinese restaurant…then went to mowing lawns for about four years until I was 18 and then I worked in an anode factory. I worked in the oil field after that for about 4 years and then went to college and got an architectural degree…I cooked myself through school and became a novice chef.
I worked in my profession almost 9 years before getting sick. Haven’t worked since.
I worked under chefs for about two years, learning the sautee station and preparing many types of food, the only thing that really stuck was making chicken alfredo. Learned many recipes I still use…thanks.
I had only work as a salesperson selling electrical appliances.Listened to my family advice but sometimes I am still defiant not wanting to concentrade and do my job well,I think I could have do other job well
