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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 174122"><p>Side note: Personally, I think a young man with a substance abuse problem, a recent problem with panic disorder, concern about possible seizures and who has just started medication for: early onset bipolar and who might have borderline pd is not the best candidate for a job right now. I do think he needs to have a plan to get his substance abuse under control followed shortly with a plan for employment. I think with support he might be able to hold down a <em>part time job</em> <em>while </em>working on his substance abuse problem. Employment can only lead to increased self esteem and better job skills. However, it is a catch 22 if it leads to repeated failures. AND it seems that part time jobs are not often available. Sometimes what is advertised as a pt job is really a full time job in disguise...often with horrid hours and conditions. One of my pet peeves in this country is that so few decent part time jobs are available. People looks their noses down upon part time work, yet there are <strong>any number of reasons</strong> why a person would seek to work part time and it is far more noble to work a reduced number of hours per week than to 1) not work at all or to 2) repeatedly fail at full time work because you are not able to do this at the present time. So many of our kids, in my humble opinion, would benefit from taking the first step of pt work. A full time job can be emotionally a physically draining and many have anxiety and maturity issues and will find full time work blowing up in their faces rather quickly. For some, the repeated failures only make things a lot worse. There are also those that may not even be able to ever work full time. I just wish there was more availability for decent part time jobs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 174122"] Side note: Personally, I think a young man with a substance abuse problem, a recent problem with panic disorder, concern about possible seizures and who has just started medication for: early onset bipolar and who might have borderline pd is not the best candidate for a job right now. I do think he needs to have a plan to get his substance abuse under control followed shortly with a plan for employment. I think with support he might be able to hold down a [I]part time job[/I] [I]while [/I]working on his substance abuse problem. Employment can only lead to increased self esteem and better job skills. However, it is a catch 22 if it leads to repeated failures. AND it seems that part time jobs are not often available. Sometimes what is advertised as a pt job is really a full time job in disguise...often with horrid hours and conditions. One of my pet peeves in this country is that so few decent part time jobs are available. People looks their noses down upon part time work, yet there are [B]any number of reasons[/B] why a person would seek to work part time and it is far more noble to work a reduced number of hours per week than to 1) not work at all or to 2) repeatedly fail at full time work because you are not able to do this at the present time. So many of our kids, in my humble opinion, would benefit from taking the first step of pt work. A full time job can be emotionally a physically draining and many have anxiety and maturity issues and will find full time work blowing up in their faces rather quickly. For some, the repeated failures only make things a lot worse. There are also those that may not even be able to ever work full time. I just wish there was more availability for decent part time jobs. [/QUOTE]
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