GiantHockeyFan wrote:
Well, I'm no expert but I know 2 people diagnosed (female) and 8 I suspect (1 I am 100% sure) equally male and female. None of them (myself included) are living up to their potential and are either underemployed or students into their 30s. This might be because where I live the job prospects are complete crap though.
I don't really put much stock into unemployment rates. I know my brother's hometown of Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) has a higher unemployment rate than where I live but if I were to move there looking for my current salary, I would literally have 10 offers within my first day. My job had 500 qualified applications but the identical job in an area with supposedly higher unemployment would get around 3-5.
Of course, that goes without saying that due to the high cost, the only people who can get it diagnosed for free through community mental health are the most severe. In other words, the unemployed!
I think what needs to happen is instead of focusing on bureaucratic public education programs, they need to find ways to get public funding for specialized vocational training programs which will help you to get really good jobs and a good living arrangement for yourself out there.
They should also give scholarships to people which can train them for good paying jobs. Whether skilled trades such as electricians, plumbers, carpenters and others could be cool to look into. Other things would be cool like web design, graphic design and IT work.
More stuff would include data entry. One other category which would be cool to look at would be acting for movies and clips, for instance.
Another cool thing to look into would be photography or animation. The sky's the limit, just as long as you know which direction you would like to go in live. Just make sure you never give up in life.