Before I landed a job, I was too dependent in even finding my strength - especially in 2008 when I was under job training.

You may want to remember and express your strength briefly, if you are focusing too much on your week point to remember your strong point. What is my strong point? I'm interested in the root knowledge of information technologies, and I haven't given back blogging in foreign language, since I began ten years ago.

In 2008 I was under job training for people with disabilities. Co-trainees who had mental illness but not on the autism spectrum are more likely to find a job early, but ones who were on the spectrum like me have a hard time with finding a job.

I myself tried hard to raise the performance, speed and accuracy of data entry work outsourced to the training office I go to. I however didn't take any action by myself to find what work and what office are more likely to match my personality, my skills I've already acquired, and my interest. I totally depended on counselors, job trainers, and helpers there to find my strength and the place which I work at and help with my advantage. I was even beginning to turn my back from my vocational and intellectual capability.

"Why can't I be like those guys who find a job, even though I was on the side to teach and advise them frequently. Now they have a job and I haven't yet, how long do I have to stand this situation?" I complained to myself, and was thinking, "Is it because I'm totally flawed more than I'm capable?". Then I even got focused almost totally on my invisible flows and communication flaws I had made during the period of training, and even almost forgot about how fast and how accurately I was able to enter dater, and how I helped the technical staff by reading and translating technical document written in English.

I now look back on that period this way. "I didn't try to state my strength briefly, in a few words. This brought miserable states of my mind then."

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