Last time I went to the job centre to try to get off incapacity
benefit they told me my two degrees were useless and tried to get me
working on a supermarket checkout. Luckily the supermarket concerned
didn't think I could manage and I'm now doing a PhD, but will that get
me anywhere? I'm lucky as they see that as training and haven't
bothered me in a while.
There aren't a lot of jobs I could do being visually impaired, hearing
impaired and having mobility problems, but if I can study there must
be something I could do? But I'm worried that if I can't find a job
straight away after finishing my PhD I'll be forced into a low paid
job I struggle to do and my qualifications will be ignored.
I know I'm in the minority being a disabled person with academic
qualifications, and I'm lucky to have got this far, but the future
looks bleak to me and these reforms don't help.
Emma
On 22/07/2008, Bryant, Helen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately, Windows Media Player says that the file for the Today Programme podcast is "damaged or corrupted". Shame, I'd have liked to have heard it. I'll see if I can find another way of listening to it when I get home.
>
> Is anyone else disturbed by this "revolution"? I certainly am. I'd be useless at graffiti-erasing, unless it was under 3 feet off the ground, and as for litter picking - that would certainly be a challenge for me and my back.
>
> OK, I'm being a bit flippant, here, but I'm genuinely concerned - surely the job must fit the ability. A "one size fits all" approach won't work here, any more than it does anywhere else.
>
> I'm glad I've already got a job.
>
> Helen
>
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> Subject: [danmail] Benefit shake-up 'revolutionary'
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> See BBC link:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7516551.stm You must listen to the podcasts from the Today Programe to hear what Jack Purnell says. Colin Revell
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