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Today I went to Kennedy Scott to use their computers (even though I have one at home) 馃檮. Going through Indeed looking at all the jobs.. I have photographic memory so I'm scrolling through and there's thousands of jobs that I am either unqualified to do or have already applied for.

I was close to losing my temper.. It's been over a year now coming up to two. It's annoying because I'm not retarded (or maybe I am) but they don't give me a chance because I don't have much work history, I went to a rubbish school with a bad reputation (in fact I've learned more educating myself in my free time than I learnt there).. When I was at school they didn't even teach me the difference between 'there' 'they're' and 'their'.

It's like why do I even bother?
sogdianrock61-69, M
hi Prick4000
Photographic memory is very useful! You can develop it further and make it a really useful skill. Ask on here what jobs would use a photographic memory. All I can think of is card counting.
Good to be an autodidact and University is a state of mind.
Best wishes
:)
ps here found this on a google search:
Originally Posted by jtur88 View Post
I've personally known two people with photographic memories.

One of them worked his way through college by writing exams for people. He would read the relevant chapters in the text in a day, then go in and ace the final exam in a subject he knew nothing about, as a ringer for the paying student. He was in college for 15 years and couldn't graduate, because he refused to take mandatory ROTC. He's a geologist, with only a BS degree, became head of exploration for one of the multinational oil giants, and then co-founder of an oil and gas exploration company listed on the stock exchange. He could look at a newspaper page for 60 seconds, and answer any question about what was on the page.

Another started working for a newspaper, and would cover stories without taking notes, and worked up to radio and TV, where he aired 30-minute news broadcasts without a script. That gave him public exposure, that he used to go into politics, and finally became a well-known cabinet minister in the Canadian government. He never took a college course.

So, maybe what you can extract from these anecdotal examples, is that you can pursue any field that suits your fancy, rrom journalism to geology, and use your talents to outrun your competitors.

By the way, while my memory is by no means photographic, I have learned to structure things that need to be remembered, in ways that it is easier to remember them. For example, in a Chemistry class, we were required to memorize about 30 reaction formulas (a + b --> c + d) and apply them to an exam. I found it easier to rearrange them in a way that I could memorize the four columns top to bottom, rather than the 30 horizontal reactions, I turned my exam paper over and wrote them that way on the back . The prof questioned whether I had somehow cheated, and I had to demonstrate to him my memorization of the columns.

Do you assist your memory with similar devices? It takes me about ten minutes to memoriize, for example, an alphabetical list of counties in a state with 50-100 counties. Garrison Kiellor once got great applause by rattling off the alphabetical list of counties in Minnesota, on Prairie Home Companion (elegantly, it ends with "Yellow Medicine") but I had been doing it already for years.


Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/education/1291407-best-career-path-person-photographic-memory-2.html#ixzz4mdqAa3PW
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sogdianrock61-69, M
hi Prick4000 路
Memory is fascinating! I believe everyone remembers everything but the retrieval system is rubbish unless you train it. It is like just throwing papers into a room and then expecting to find one. Although I recently looked for a receipt from 3 years ago and found that first place I looked without a filing system. Anyway you can develop a good memory into something more.
Best wishes
:)
sogdianrock61-69, M
hi Prick4000 路 haha I am enthusiastic!
Best wishes
:)
hunkalove61-69, M
You can always work for the post office. Their usually hiring.
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Sarabee41-45
Yu should go to the police department they need people like yu
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Sarabee41-45
I had a friend that was a lawyer he had photographic memory too@Prick4000
SW-User
Don't worry son it only gets worse!馃檨
tynamite31-35, M
The unemployment rate in some british cities is over 53%. If you ask your parents, they'll tell you it was much easier for them to get a job when they were your age. Blame mass immigration for this.
seneca70-79, M
@tynamite It was so much easier to get a job in the 1960's once you'd had your first job, till then like today with no work history it was hard to get a job.
A lot of today's problem with getting a job is to do with immigration but also fact that government pays companies to hire foreign workers, at 拢3000 per worker no employers gonna turn their nose up at that.
Place I worked at till 3 yrs ago boss preferred foreign worker as said they worked harder than Brit workers, they did when he was around but not the same when not, plus he was getting the 拢3000 per worker 馃槓

 
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