Life since school

Some time after A-One completed school, a family friend offered him some office work in the mailroom. He protested vigorously at the idea of working 5 days a week, even as I virtually pushed him out the door on the first day. By the time he came home, we didn't hear any more protests about that.

He enjoyed the daily company of working with people, however over time it became evident that even though he knew the work backwards, his productivity was low. That's when we began the journey of the supported wage scheme and disability pension. Yet the variability in his productivity proved too much of a strain for the workplace, and that job came to an end after 12 months.


A-One became unemployed. We wanted to give him some space to see what might interest him; to allow him to start taking charge of his own life. Pushing him had been tiring for all of us.

With both A-One's father and me working full-time, we found that little happened in job searching unless we sat beside him searching job sites and assisting him with applications - which were few.