12/28/2023 0 Comments Bbc iplayer download hack![]() So I learnt that I’m resilient.ĮMMA- I think that’s fine, people are used to that now. So I just used to ask customers to scan their own beers. ![]() Except for when there was a massive sporting event coming along and people bought crates of like 24 bottles of lager, and then I was like, ‘There’s no way I’ve got the strength to scan that through’. So checkout, fine, my arms were just about strong enough to sweep everything through. NIKKI- I mean I learnt in hindsight back then I probably should have said a few more things, but I was just insistent that I’d be able to do everything. But they were my first two proper jobs.ĮMMA-Ěnd what did you learn as a disabled person from doing those jobs? NIKKI-Ěnd then obviously it all went media-media-media. And it was a job that I loved because I love a good old chat, so I like talking to customers. So basically I just sat on the checkouts. Because I remember I got both jobs without an actual face-to-face interview, they were just so pleased that I’d applied, that I was fairly able to do the job, and I was disabled. It was a round about that time, this was getting late 90s now, where diversity ticks were coming in and companies were having to be a bit more aware of employing disabled people. My first job with a company was working for a supermarket. Walked to my post office, put a little card up saying ‘I’ll teach your kids, £5 an hour’, which actually was quite a lot really back then. NIKKI- When I was about 15, I’d just done my Grade 7 piano, so I sat up a little piano teaching business. ![]() I mean it’s just a bit of a minefield, isn’t it?ĮMMA- It is. It’s complex in many ways, you have to be more open. There are many more things to think about. ![]() NIKKI- If you do have a disability or mental health it can be even more daunting. The word – and this is a very media specific word - ‘networking’, feels me with absolute dread. I mean no matter when you start it can be a nerve-racking experience, it can be very daunting, particularly if you’ve got a disability as well. But one that I definitely remember, my very first actual job. NIKKI-Ğm, what are the most nerve-racking things in life? I mean there are a few. I’m Nikki Fox, and I’m in London.ĮMMA-Ěnd I’m Emma Tracey, and I am in Edinburgh. NIKKI- It’s Access All, our weekly disability and mental health podcast from the BBC. NIKKI- It’s funny, isn’t it, what makes someone as default say that.ĮMMA- I bet he wishes he said, “Ooh, it’s getting a bit chilly”. But also, my son has started taking my hand and showing me things a lot, and a couple of other people have asked him if he’s helping mummy since and I do worry that he now thinks that it’s his job.ĮMMA- So I’ve actually said in front of him, “Oh it’s not his job, it’s my job”, in a nice smiley kind of way. My Ted talk was over, I’d finished educating by then. And the man was like, “But surely you’re helping a little bit?”. He was being a lovely 4 year old, but he was not helping me.ĮMMA-Ěnd I was like, ‘Do I just let this pass?’, and I was like, ‘No actually, do you know what, I’d be letting my son down and I’d be letting myself down if I let this pass’, and I said, “Ha-ha, no I don’t think so”, and I said, “Are you helping mummy?”, and he said, “Er, no”.ĮMMA-Ěnd then so I took it one step further and I said, “Who helps who?”, and he said, “Mummy helps me”. And like I’d struggled to get him out of the house, he’d needed to go to the toilet at the last second. EMMA- I was walking up with the younger boy to school.ĮMMA- Yes my son, not my toyboy, to get the older boy, and a nice man rather than saying, “Nice weather today”, or, “Hello, how are you doing?”, he chose to say just as his passing comment, “Oh, you’re doing a great job there helping mummy”.
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