What planet are the Job Centre Advisers on?

dandelionclock30

Theres a world of difference between here and the Jobcentre.This is basically a chatroom and the Jobcentre is a Government agency which should as such behave in an accountable,professional and appropriate manner.

mumcoll

OP, do you live in social housing? Most of these have departments that help with becoming 'Digitally Included' - getting skills to help them into work and it's often free.

auldblerk

monkeychops wrote: »

I have just looked online about Dyscalculia (Dyslexia with numbers)

Also known as numerological dyslexia .. when I was in maths at school in the 70's, the maths teacher used to lose his rag with me in front of the rest of the class .. shouting and bawling things like ..'the rest of the class understand this so why can't you !' then I would go beetroot in the face. It was unheard of then and, to be honest, it's no good trying to explain this 'condition' to anybody who doesn't have it as they will not understand.

marybelle01

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Theres a world of difference between here and the Jobcentre.This is basically a chatroom and the Jobcentre is a Government agency which should as such behave in an accountable,professional and appropriate manner.

Fascinating. So people here should not, or need not, act in an accountable, professional or appropriate manner? Glad that has been confirmed.

John1993_2

BurnleyBob wrote: »

So the OP is being subjected to the proverbial thumb screws treatment after being a JSA claimant for just six weeks!

Proverbial thumbscrews?

I don't recall a proverb involving thumbscrews. You probably meant "metaphorical". Quite funny for a blowhard that likes to try to pick holes in others' English.

Welcome to my ignore list.

monkeychops

John1993 wrote: »

Oh, come on!

You understand that five is half of ten, don't you, and that eight is a third of 24?

If you can get your head round these sort of ideas, then the left just follow on, building logically from there.

3/4 of an hour is 45 minutes, half a day is 12 hours, and so on, and so forth. You can't give up so easily.

Yes, I can do those as they are pretty easy. I can't however do complicated fractions and certainly can't manage to do subtraction, multiplication etc with fractions.

auldblerk wrote: »

Also known as numerological dyslexia .. when I was in maths at school in the 70's, the maths teacher used to lose his rag with me in front of the rest of the class .. shouting and bawling things like ..'the rest of the class understand this so why can't you !' then I would go beetroot in the face. It was unheard of then and, to be honest, it's no good trying to explain this 'condition' to anybody who doesn't have it as they will not understand.

I was at school in the 60's when teachers could and did throw things at you including the wooden thing used to clean the blackboard. Our maths teacher was horrible anyway but he seemed to hate me and would always pick me out to ask for an answer, which of course I never had and would then shout at me, throw things at me and generally make me look stupid. I was a very shy, unconfident child and the teacher literally made my life a misery. I honestly thought about suicide because I was so miserable. Luckily I told my parents and they went to the school and the teacher was spoken to. He wasn't nasty to me after that, just tended to ignore me, but the year or so I suffered at his hands affected me. I also had to see a psychologist for a while so although other people may think I am pathetic or making excuses I know how maths makes me feel

Caroline_a

monkeychops wrote: »

Yes, I can do those as they are pretty easy. I can't however do complicated fractions and certainly can't manage to do subtraction, multiplication etc with fractions.



I was at school in the 60's when teachers could and did throw things at you including the wooden thing used to clean the blackboard. Our maths teacher was horrible anyway but he seemed to hate me and would always pick me out to ask for an answer, which of course I never had and would then shout at me, throw things at me and generally make me look stupid. I was a very shy, unconfident child and the teacher literally made my life a misery. I honestly thought about suicide because I was so miserable. Luckily I told my parents and they went to the school and the teacher was spoken to. He wasn't nasty to me after that, just tended to ignore me, but the year or so I suffered at his hands affected me. I also had to see a psychologist for a while so although other people may think I am pathetic or making excuses I know how maths makes me feel

This looks like your maths blindness is more about your teacher than your ability!

Dyscalculia is so much more than not being able to do maths... there are time elements and spacial elements (left/right, map reading) to it too.

iclayt

As suggested already... I was able to do an ECDL course for free at my local college, I just needed to prove I was claiming JSA and all fees were waived. I started the course in January so you could check to see if they have any sessions coming up in the new year.

If you've worked in retail have you been applying for Christmas vacancies?

Maths is my weakest subject, I barely passed a GCSE in it and can never work anything out without a calculator. But you don't need to be good at maths these days, everything is automated. My first job out of university, with an English degree, was in finance. If you can type numbers into a spreadsheet you're halfway there - don't rule out the payroll type jobs, you could learn another skillset there and add 'SAGE experience' to your CV.

I ended up asking - insisting - to be referred for the Employability scheme they offered at my JCP. I only found this by doing a bit of hunting myself otherwise I don't think I would have even been told about it. I ended up on a 6 month minimum wage placement in an office working for the local NHS Care Plus team. I had worked in offices before and had much more experience than they required, but a period of ill health after my last temporary job ended meant there was a significant gap on my CV, and with even basic office jobs requiring 'recent experience' I was getting nowhere. Working here bridged the gap and I now have a full time admin job elsewhere - I really don't think I could have managed it again without doing the placement, and I don't think the 'advisor' would ever have mentioned it if I hadn't had a bit of a Google for placements, etc.

My MiL was made redundant last year, is also nearly 60, and is struggling to find work as well after 20+ years working as support for the fire service, so you have my sympathies.

And my FiL is a JCP advisor...he's a lovely man, one you would want to sign on with, but he hates the job - so many targets, constant demands from his bosses to refer people to totally unsuitable jobs and training, so I imagine your own advisor is under the same pressure. No excuse to be rude and intimidating though, so don't put up with it.

monkeychops

Caroline_a wrote: »

This looks like your maths blindness is more about your teacher than your ability!

Dyscalculia is so much more than not being able to do maths... there are time elements and spacial elements (left/right, map reading) to it too.

Looking at the symptoms of Dyscalculia I do seem to have quite a few of them. Oh and I can't read a map to save my life and do often have left/right problems

John1993_2

monkeychops wrote: »

Looking at the symptoms of Dyscalculia I do seem to have quite a few of them. Oh and I can't read a map to save my life and do often have left/right problems

It makes no senses to write off your chances of learning like this, instead of giving it a try.

I genuinely find it unbelievable, the number of unemployed on here whose posts are filled with "I can't", or "It's not worth trying".

The ability to keep trying, even through knock-backs is probably the main difference between successful people and those who just drag along the bottom. Just about everyone at the top of their game has suffered far more defeats and failures than you ever will. The main difference between them and you is that they keep trying, even if they expect to fail.

The below quote is trite, but true,

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed." Michael Jordan