wow, hello Rinfrance
That's quite allot of information.
Ok, I do actually use a spell and grammar checker on the computer but some stuff get's threw or i use the wrong grammatical word. it's improved a lot since my school days but it's now at a point where it's not really going to get any better sadly.
To be PERFECT I would need to use the programs I have for uni and that takes up far to much time to set up and use with the internet (you wouldn't think but dear gods above and below does it take an age) so I only use it for course work.
Here's an example of what my sentences look like when I'm not using the spell checker AT ALL provided by chrome (I think that's right, not sure what program it is that picks up the error)
it's not easy useing something like a spell cheker when your not upto stratch using a dicshonary is hard beecus i dont now what the write orda four letter in the spellng is. i somtimes can recanize a rong word buy the shap of the word butt its knot always that simpel four me.
But hard to read
The whole TESCO thing, I actually got blacklisted from there [I think they never actually said but I never got another job interview with them] and it wasn't for a lack of label misinterpretation. i have a pretty bad fit stacking shelves, tin's and injury follow shortly. I Felt so bad and was horrified . A load of tin's ended up injuring an old lady and a young man. this was way back when I was in my early 20's, I was fired of course, I was a liability.they couldn't risk me getting hurt or hurting someone else which I would never want to do.
so in the end it wasn't being somewhat 'illiterate' that got me fired, it was my brain trying to do me in
for a very long time I didn't think I was good for nothing more than cleaning rooms in the local holiday camp. (I had a partner so I was alone) but I have found over the year's that I am very good at Graphic Design. spelling, grammar and type face are very important but then so is learning to ask for help and not being afraid to take chances. This I have learned through the support of my tutor's (he had over 30 years of experience in the graphic design industry, has won several awards for his work and is quite frankly totally bonkers so we get along like a house on fire) the first thing he said to me was to always ask for help when stuck and to ALWAYS check your work or have someone else check your work and to keep everything you do. it's not uncommon, it doesn't make me unemployable in this industry it just means it's a little harder.
I hope this help's, here's some examples of my work at Uni. (all type was hand rendered, mis spelled and rectified....eventually) in fact everything you see here is hand rendered, no computers used what so ever. and I HAD to get help, I had to have someone check over my work, which I have been told is actually a normal thing in the industry, to look for errors etc before mock up's or final printing is approved.
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I'm not really sure where you're going with the statement's you have made.
I think you had some good idea's with regards to benefit fraud and how to deal with it. I do think that if you can afford drugs and alcohol and cigarettes that you're taking the micky. that money is for food and the household necessities and not for recreational escapism. I also think thing's need to change in the system to help make it easier to report, investigate and suspend people who abuse the system.
well I hope some of my answer's have not come across as too fractured with regards to some of your statements.
I will say this, I am not unemployable, I believe that now, it's an uphill struggle and I'm always having to check myself. I get angry, I get hurt, I get upset and my way of dealing with that is sometimes by screaming at the world, it's not going to change anything but it's good for getting over myself sometimes. I'm not un-open to new idea's and option's, in fact I've come across some insightful, thought provoking statements that have made me sit and think about this issue.
It's never going to be black and white sadly. no matter how much i wish it could be, it would make it easier to root out the bad guy's and help the good guy's but life is not a comic book or cartoon.
It just doesn't work that way.
being constructive, helpful and open to new idea's WILL help though, it's no good simply being down on people and pointing out all their faults and mistakes, telling them they are never going to be any better than what they are.
It doesn't help and it's hurtful, useless and just mean.
How can anyone believe in themselves, strive to achieve something more, something better if they are made to feel useless, broken.
It just doesn't help.