Is anyone else here a person who has a learning disability and difficulty with

@writersedge (22563)
United States
August 7, 2008 7:29am CST
work situations? At one point in my work career, I was sent on a lot of temporary service jobs. Most involved being sent somewhere, taught now to do something, and then you just do it: over and over again. Well that worked for everyone else except me. I would learn it and then have to figure out how I could do it with the added pressure of not being a very fast person so I had to figure out how to keep up. Like two places, you take with your left and place into something with your right. The hand position for the taking didn't work for me so I had to refigure the hand position. Then the hand off and other hand were two slow, so I grabbed two with both hands and put them in the container. One was a health bar repacking service and the other was a pen repacking service. Two at a time worked way better for me and way faster. But usually the foreman would complain or want me to do it the same way as everyone else. But I couldn't keep up that way, so I would get yelled at if I didn't keep up. So I would always learn something, isolate myself to figure it out, join the others, and try to work somewhere where the bosses seldom or never went. What has been your experience with being LD and trying to work for others?
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
11 Aug 08
To my knowledge I have no learning disabilities. I do think everyone has concerns when starting a new job and instructions are tossed at them in a short amount of time with the expectation that nothing needs to be repeated. I can't always absorb everything when training on a new job. Nerves play a role, in my case, as I'm concerned I can't learn what is expected to do a good job. I do work with two college students who have ADHD and they do a great job and are exceptionally pleasant and fun people.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
12 Aug 08
I know a lot of cooks and other vocational people who are ADHD, and they do great because anything where they're moving, they do great. School was a problem because people expected them to sit in a chair and read all day. I am the only one that doesn't get it. Everywhere I go, I am the only one. It's not that hard to stuff bars into boxes or pens into pouches, but I have to figure out how and then figure out how to keep up. Not only do I have coordination problems, I'm slower than everyone else. They demonstrate it two or three times and that does it for everyone else. For me, I have to go in a corner and figure out how I do it. Not how everyone else does it, how I do it. Thank you very, very much for taking this off the zero list. I guess I'm the only one here, too.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
12 Aug 08
Actually the student I work with has a GPA of 4.0. He is a little anxious but gets the job done. He's on his way to college this year and hope he does well. Glad I could remove this discussion from the zero list.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
12 Aug 08
I understood what you meant. You are welcome.