Last week I detailed the saga of my questioning the Choose Work Bot on Facebook.
This week I contacted the Vocational Rehabilitation Office.
I called vocational rehabilitation. I was told they probably would not be of help getting me a food handlers card so I can be on call for Drewid.
Why?
Because they have to enroll me first in an orientation. I will save the speculation about what this orientation from the Vocational Rehabilitation Office will entail. I did ask how long it was and was told about one hour. I told her my time sitting is supposed to be fifteen minutes. I was told I could sit in the back as to not disturb as I try and find a comfortable spot to stand after my back gets inflamed by chairs too low for my hip/knee geometry to not set off nerve pain.
This also conflicts with my propensity to get information overload. I was put at the front of the class for years in an attempt to reduce stimuli. And when I have that option I continue to do so. I'm there to learn about the subject presented. Not every clue the strangers in the room give about themselves in daily action too , that is just chaff to me. But absorption occurs anyway, and FSM forbid if I get bored. I usually do, a one hour session usually means one sheet of paper and not even full of information. My problem is once I've seen the text I've got it down. But other students need additional methods like discussion or visual aids. Hopefully I'll feel secure enough to doodle, sometimes those doodles are interesting. But, I might start interacting with the strangers in order to amuse myself. Still boring but less so.
So after the one hour orientation. I can then schedule to see a worker as one will be assigned to me. At the moment those appointments are two months away.
So not much help in getting my food card. And not much help in getting me glasses so I don't confuse the dish soap and sanitizer for instance. I should be able to fudge along with old glasses that still give me double vision* and fuzziness for most texts.
But the Choose Work saga continues after the first week in August.
I'm not happy about this because I have a book idea and I'd like to get it out for the college session as it should sell well in that age group. But I need advice and guidance in how to navigate the intentional merging of government and capitalist bureaucracy. So I will trudge through their drawn out schedule that really leaves me feeling like they don't care if I work or not. Or that they are hindering me from exploiting a marketing edge on the horizon.
Ho-hum
*I utterly flubbed a filmmakers name on the way back from NN because of v's looking like w's to my eyes.