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How to succeed at work with autism is one of the most ignored topics in autism, and one of the most needed. After all, it is impossible to live independently if you can't generate an income.
For those of us with autism, this challenge is real, and we must face it.
Currently, adults with autism are all to often settling for one of the following:
- Living at home with their parents supporting them.
- Living in substandard conditions on disability/governmental or some other form of support.
- Choosing underemployment (a job below their abilities, reduced work hours, etc.).
A note: Folks in the third group often tell me they are more content than when they tried to run the 9 to 5 rat race. Good for them!
But what do you do if you find yourself in this group of struggling people? What if you want to break out of the stereotypes and move forward in a career? How do you do it?
Treat Everything Else
Many autistics weren't diagnosed with other disorders because they weren't tested for them. Because they weren't diagnosed with other disorders, they aren't treated for them. Yet, statistics tell us that lots of people with autism also have a "comorbid" disorder. A comorbid disorder is a disorder that comes with and is secondary to autism. You can read more about comorbid disorders in my post, "Comorbidity: Life With Autism and It's Closest 'Friends.'" (As if that weren't enough, right?)
This week, I communicated with several autistics who are dying in the workplace. By dying, I mean that they are living in one of the three categories listed above. They aren't able to reach their potential, and they know it.
And that hurts.
One of the key reasons they give for their struggles is anxiety. Have they been diagnosed with anxiety? Nope. Are they being treated for it? Of course not, they haven't been diagnosed with it.
But there are more comorbid disorders than just anxiety. ADD, ADHD, food allergies, depression, bipolar disorder, autoimmune issues, to name a few. These comorbid issues also trip you up in the workplace.
More importantly, we better understand these other disorders/conditions. Many of them are TREATABLE!!! And as you treat/manage them, symptoms go away, and life, and thus work, get easier. YES!
If you have read my post, "My Strategy for the 'Treatment' of Autism," you know that I "treat everything else." If you haven't read this post, I recommend you take a minute to do so now. It is relevant to what I am suggesting here.
If you are struggling at work seek help in determining whether there may be other issues tripping you up. If there are, put a plan in place to treat/manage them!
Treatment for other disorders may make your "AUTISM" "autism." While "AUTISM" at work may be too much, "autism" may not be!
Get a Mentor or a Coach
I know, I know, the last thing you may want is more people time. Consider, though, that people time that helps you cope with people time may be valuable.
I get it, there is a sort of stigma about mentoring programs. People often view them as being for "bad" employees or poor performers. And yet, companies often place top performers in mentoring and coaching programs. I used to work with top employees of an oil and gas company and guess what these top performers had? Mentors and coaches. In fact, they didn't wait for someone to tell them then needed a mentor or coach, they sought out mentors and coaches!
There is no shame in using resources that help you be successful!! If you don't believe me, check out my post, "Dear Autistics: Society's Message is Wrong and What You Can Do About It.")
A mentor doesn't have to be someone that works at your company. In fact, you may feel more comfortable using someone you don't work with and that's fine! Also, it doesn't have to be a formal arrangement, it can be informal. Usually, mentoring is free and coaching is a paid service. Depending on your finances or your situation, you may want to start with a mentor.
I tend to avoid using friends and family as a mentor. I feel it has the potential to change the relationship. Others I know have done so with success. It is a matter of personal preference, so you chose who you want to use!
Go To Counseling
Counseling may be something that comes into play in the first strategy I gave. It may also be useful even if you don't have other disorders. You may just need a place to vent or get some perspective as it relates to your autism, or frankly, you may just need to vent in a private setting.
Counseling may be something that takes a little pressure off and gives you some room to breathe. Knowing you have a counseling appointment coming up can make all the difference.
There have been times I was suuuuuper stressed, and I would go to counseling just to relieve it for a bit. Puking my issues on a counselor for an hour allowed me to get through some tough times. No, it's not the healthiest long-term strategy, but in the short term, it got me through.
There are lots of reasons to seek counseling, and lots of ways to use them in a strategy for success. Be creative! If you are not sure how they might fit, go to one and ask! Often companies have Employee Assistance Programs and the first hour or two are free! You can check your employee benefits.
If you've never been to counseling, and the thought of going causes you anxiety, let me assure you, it's no big deal.
Want to know what the other clients/patients at a counselor's office look like?
They look like you and me.
Want to know what their problems are like?
They are like yours and mine. And sometimes much worse!
I think if you try counseling, you'll see that it is not big deal. If I am wrong, shoot me a note and let me have it!
Outsource (Hire Help!)
One of the factors sometimes listed as making it tough to hold a job with autism is the lack of time to recover from work. Coming home from work and jumping into time with kids and chores may be what is sinking your ship.
Guess what?
There's a solution for that!
Outsourcing work can be a great way for you to get a few things off your plate. The relief of knowing that a few jobs are getting done can make all the difference! Sometimes the problem is not the job, it is everything else!
More than once I have found myself in a spot where I couldn't handle everything that was being thrown at me. What saved me during some of those times was hiring help! A babysitter, a lawnmower, a handyman, you name it, those wonderful souls can change the game for you. They have for me.
What Should I Outsource?
Areas to target may include:
- Tasks you can't stand to do or that cause tons of stress.
- Tasks that need to be done while you are at work.
- Tasks that are affordable to outsource.
- Tasks that take a tremendous amount of time.
- Tasks you don't know how to do and learning to do them doesn't make sense.
"I can't afford to hire others," you may be thinking. But can you afford to lose your job?
What if paying someone $50/week helped you keep a job that paid $500/week? That would leave you $450. That may be preferable to working fewer hours and making $300/week, right?
The more you earn, the more sense this strategy makes.
How Can I Make It Affordable?
But if you don't feel you can afford it, check out these ways to keep the cost down:
- Outsource the most affordable things that take the most time (yard care – yes, I mentioned that one above)
- Outsource on an "as needed" basis rather than on a regular basis. For example, only have the yard mowed when it's really shaggy rather than weekly. This strategy can cut the costs in half over the course of the summer.
- Or you can do it yourself most times, but hire someone when you feel like you have allen behind. Ha! All the sudden you are caught up! And that feels GREAT!
- Outsource those things that will free you up to earn more money!! If you gave up doing a few extra things could you be more successful at work in a way that helps you earn more??
- Add paid jobs you like so you can pay someone else to do work you don't like! Sometimes you can even trade with someone else!
- Check the budget and see if there is something you could cut that would free up some money for outsourcing. If you are stress shopping, would you give that up for a babysitter to allow some downtime? Do you grab a coffee on the way to work? Buy your lunch everyday? Find yourself buying things you don't need? Would you rather spend some of your spending money getting things done? Your call!
- Consider this: If you need some extra money to get started outsourcing, ask for help. Put together a strategy where you try to use outsourcing in a way that moves you forward. Maybe you need help getting started. That's okay. In the long term, outsourcing some work could get you to a place where you CAN afford it!
There are times when I had very little money, but I managed to outsource tasks and save my sanity. This is another place to be creative. It can be done!
Outsourcing comes with the side benefit of making you feel a little spoiled and pampered. This benefit can also serve to bring anxiety levels down. More than once, I found myself smiling as I watched someone else do work I wanted/needed to avoid! At first I thought this was horrible, then I let myself enjoy it! After all, we all deserve a little luxury from time to time!
Consider How You Use Your Vacation
Lots of employees like to use their vacation time to, well, go on vacation! They take their time off in week long increments. Historically, most people used this strategy.
Now, many employers will let you take your vacation time in increments of not just days, but in hours. If you think a half day off every couple weeks would help you, and your employer is good with that, do it!
If a day off every so often would allow you to work through your errands, awesome! You might forego a week long vacation, but this change may enable you to survive at work! Also, money saved by not traveling could help you pay to have some chores outsourced. BAM!
Ask Yourself If There Are Accommodations That Might Make Your Job More Doable
I try to avoid this strategy where possible, but it is a good one where needed. When I do use this strategy, I first like to try to find things that would make EVERYONE's life better. That way, I don't have to single myself out! (If you haven't yet told your employer about your autism, I caution you to think about whether you want to in my post, "Your Autism Diagnosis: Privacy Versus Secrecy and Why It Matters.")
If you need specific accommodations, check with a professional to see how to move forward. As I mention in the article I linked to above, once you've told an employer about your autism, you can't "untell" him/her.
Let your employer know that you want to be able to do your best job, and you think a change or two will help you get there.
Ask Yourself Whether a Different Job/Company Would Be A Better Fit
Changing jobs is the pits, but let's face it, sometimes it's necessary and, in the long run, can have great results. Oftentimes, the short-term work and discomfort of changing jobs is well worth it. If you are not sure this is a good strategy for you, check in with a mentor, coach, or counselor!
Start Your Own Business/Work Outside the Traditional 9-5 Job
There is the option of working for yourself or finding a non-traditional job. Working for yourself does have startup costs and it takes tons of time. It is not for the faint of heart, but many autistics are doing it successfully.
Is there something at which you excel that you could turn into a business? Awesome! Do you have some way you could earn money that does not involve the traditional 9 to 5 job?
I tell myself that to live independently, we have to generate revenue, not have a "job." This way of thinking has the way I think about employment (definitely a post for another day!).
Living independently is crazy important for those who can and want to do so. Generating an income is necessary to meet that goal. Before you quit your job, before you chose underemployment maybe try these tips to get you back on track.
You don't have to try them all at once, in fact, I would caution against that as it would be overwhelming. If you need help deciding which one(s) to try, start with the mentor/coach/counseling option to help you.
We don't have to be underemployed (unless we choose to do so). We don't have to be passed over for promotions. We shouldn't have to live with our parents.
Becoming successful may take a few more steps, but taking them is so worth it! Remember, you are enough. Just you. Take some time to decide what you want your life to look like and use those resources that will get you there!
I am going to be writing much more on this topic and each of the given points, but for now, I wanted to give you a starting place. Whatever you decide to pursue, however you decide to live, no judgment here! It is your life! Go get it!
I look forward to hearing your success stories!
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DVD REVIEW: Waltz with Bashir (in Hebrew) 115 mins 2008.
By ARTE France, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Channel 8, Israeli Film Fund. Producers Serge Laloy, Yael Nahlieli, Gerhard Meixner & Roman Paul. Written produced & directed by Ari Folman. [Some may object to listening to Hebrew for 115 minutes but this film will dispel any myths about the IDF being a 'super army'. You will see they're akin to the US Army in Iraq & just as prone to cowardice, failure and 'friendly fire'. RE].
Interview by David Stratton of ABC TV (Australia) At the Movies show with director Ari Folman:
"the film is entirely autobiographical. I did it as therapy for my time in Lebanon in 1982. I really did have total memory loss about that period. Then one day an old army buddy, Boaz Rein-Buskila, came to tell me of nightmares he'd had every night for the past 30 months. He asked: 'do you also have nightmares from that time?' 'No', I said. That made me wonder. That was in winter 2006. Then, that night, for the first time in 20 years I had a brief 'flashback' to the War. I began to question veteran of Lebanon they also had either partial memory loss or nightmares. But why?
That was the genesis for this film. The next day I went to see a psychiatrist friend, Ori Sivan. I asked: why would Boaz's memory trigger mine?" He answered: "memory is fascinating. We tried this experiment. A group of people are shown 10 various childhood images. Nine photos were really from their childhood but one was fake. Their portrait had been placed into a fairground they had never visited. 80% recognised themselves in the photo and said 'yes I remember that!' The other 20% were not sure.
When asked a second time they also 'remembered'. They would say 'what a wonderful day at the park with my parents!' They remembered a completely fabricated experience. How could this occur? Memory is dynamic; its alive. If some details are missing memory fills the holes with things that never happened".[Like those who claim they saw gas chambers in Dachau, Bergen-Belsen & Madianek KLs? If this is a recognised psychiatric disorder why are holohoax lies taken as 'evidence'? RE].
Ari visited fellow vet Carmi Cna'an in Holland where he has been living for the 20 years since Lebanon. Ari asked:
"How you become so rich? Everyone at school thought you'd become a nuclear physicist!" "No, I made money selling falafels to health-conscious Dutchwomen. In three years I'd made my fortune".[Another case of memory filling in factual gaps. RE].
"Carmi was in Ari's unit but has memories Ari does not. Carmi remembers them being landed in secret on a beach in Lebanon and shooting up the first Mercedes they saw drive past, killing a whole family. A war crime but Camri puts it down to "pure fear & anxiety. We began shooting like lunatics". "At what?" "I don't know! At everything. After two years training, the fear, the uncontrollable fear. We destroyed them & we didn't even know where we were".By checking their dates it turns out both Ari & Carmi were in West Beirut, posted in oversite positions around the Sabra & Shatila Palestinian refugee camps while Christian Phalangist militia carried out the massacre of 800 men, women and children. Yet neither has any memory of it. A blank. But on the return trip to Amsterdam airport, while in the taxi, Ari has a 'flashback'. He is driving a M113 armoured personnel carrier in Lebanon and has been ordered to "take the units dead and wounded and dump them at the big lights".
Unsure, they load up and drive off. The entire crew fires the vehicles heavy weapons, in all directions, as they travel like frightened children. The 'big lights' turn out to be a heli-pad where dozens of IDF dead are being assembled for a chopper flight back home. Only now does Ari remember the stench of blood and guts inside the APC.
Fellow vet Ronny Dayag was a tank crewman. He recalls the 1982 invasion as 'a joyride' till his tank commander got killed by a sniper. Soon after his and the following tank were destroyed in an ambush. All crew from both were then machine-gunned. Only he escaped. The rest of thank column simply fled in retreat, leaving him behind.
[Neither IDF nor PLO took prisoners. A race war knows no mercy. RE].
Ari's other friend Shmuel Frenkel remembers everything. Now a martial arts expert, he enjoyed the war. Boasts of killing children, civilians, anyone. Ari asks: " was I there, too?" Frenkel: "since training school you've always been at my side". So how could he forget this? Asks Professor Zahava Solomon, post traumatic street expert. She: "it occurs when a person is in a situation but feels outside of it". Ari admits he remembers every 'furlough' from the war but nothing about the war itself.
Carmi suddenly recalls: "we were together in the 'slaughterhouse', a junkyard where captured PLO were brought to be tortured, dissected then executed. People were wandering around with body parts in jars. It was like being on an LSD trip!" Eventually Ari recovers his memory of the twin camp massacres - but lays the blame on the Christians when the world knows they were simply obeying IDF orders. His friend Dror Harazi, a tank gunner also in on over-site at Sabra camp, admits "the Christian soldiers wore Israeli uniforms". [Where'd they get these from? Steal them?! RE]
Popular TV reporter Ron Ben-Yishai claims it was his personal intervention that stopped the 'Christian massacre'. How?
"I was asked by a colonel friend at the airport that day: 'did you know they're massacring Palestinians in the camps'? That night Micha Friedman took me to dinner in Beirut's Baabda district with members of 211 Brigade. They said the same thing. So at 11.30 pm I 'phoned [Israeli Defence Minister] Arik Sharon. He showed no reaction. At 5.30am the next morning I took my entire TV crew with me to the camps. But as I arrived so did Brigadier Amos. I watched as lines of women & children were being marched off to their death - you know like that photo from the Warsaw ghetto? Just then I heard Brigadier Amos shout an order through his loud-hailer: 'the shooting is to stop'. That's how it all ended".[Why didn't Ron's TV crew take any photos of these 'lines of women & children'. Story is false. RE].
Ari [and his psychiatrist] conclude: "the Christians carried out the massacre that went on all night. My unit fired illumination rounds [flares] so they could work on into the night. Was I personally firing flares? What difference does it make?" His psych admits: "you were unwillingly cast into the role of a Nazi".
[Typical Chosen response whenever they are called to account for their evil deeds. 1. Blame someone else. 2. Deny personal responsibility. 3. When 1 & 2 fail say: "well, so what?"]
Despite self-serving factual flaws this war film gets 4 1/2 stars out of five as the best War film of 2008. Compared to patriotic rubbish like Hurt Locker, Jarhead, Stop Loss & other Hollywood propaganda about Iraq this is real. Has the best 'fog of war' since Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and its print inspiration, Michael Herr's Despatches.
DVD REVIEW: Patty Hearst: the Kidnapping of an American Princess (1988) (140 minutes).
Executive producer Marvin Rosenblatt(J); director Paul Schrader(J) for Atlantic Entertainment. Stars Natasha Richardson. Based on book Every Secret Thing by Patricia Campbell Hearst & Alvin Moscow from Avon Books.
THE KIDNAPPING: On April 1 1974 newspaper heiress Patricia Campbell ('Patty') Hearst was kidnapped by a small urban terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Patty was held in a small closet, blindfolded and in total darkness for 56 days & nights where she was raped & psychologically tortured by the entire gang. Finally she 'cracked' and was 'turned'. How? Since 1974 there had been observed the Stockholm Syndrome where captives slowly begin to identify with their captors. Patty was an extreme case going so far as to aid the gang in the bank robberies with which they funded their activities.
She was rescued by an FBI raid on an SLA safe-house, 18 September 1975 after being a hostage for 19 months. There was no public celebrations at her escape. Instead, in inimitable US-style, Patty was put on trial for crimes committed whilst a hostage. She was subsequently convicted of 'armed robbery' & 'use of a firearm in a felony' & was only freed after a Presidential pardon granted February 1st 1979.
THE TIMES: How to explain such this strange treatment of a victim? To gauge the sentiments of the times here's an insert of the film's dialogue from the pre-trial discussion. Her lawyer says to the prosecutor:
'how's she gonna get a fair trial? In the 1960's every parent sent their nice normal kid of to college and bingo! It was like the kid got kidnapped by the counter-culture, turned into a commie and says 'f--k you!' to society and his parents, lives in a commune and has free sex with negroes and homosexuals". "So?"
"So they think Patty did the same thing". "Didn't she?"
WHO WERE THE SLA? They were by a Negro petty felon, Donald De Freeze also known as Field Marshal Cinque. Cinque was sole black in the SLA's all-white 'combat unit'; remainder were five white females and two white men. The females included Jewish lesbians Zoya, Gelina & Gabi. Fahizah. The men were 'Cujo' (William Wolfe); 'Teko' (Bill Harris) his wife 'Yolanda' (Emily Harris). The Harris' later got eight years for kidnapping, robbery & auto theft. After release from prison Bill found work with a legal firm. Only Asian SLA member was Japanese-American Wendy Yoshimura who described SLA's unusual structure, with a black leading an all-white group, as 'wanting a black master to assuage your honky, white guilt'.
SLA members were sexually active with each other regularly performing homosexual and group sex acts & with their captive Hearst. Cinque, a self-styled 'Prophet', had his pick of both men & women. None were allowed to refuse as this would be seen as both 'racist' & 'un-comradely'. The SLA could be seen more as a personality cult than a guerrilla group. Compare David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult in Waco, TX and the Jim Jones People's Temple cult in San Francisco. In all three cases sexual & racial pluralism lead to eventual implosion & death.
US URBAN TERRORISTS: The short-lived SLA had none of the cohesion of its much larger Ultra-Leftist rival, the Weathermen which operating at around the same time. Both groups, like similar European cells, had their origins among Upper middle-class white youths radicalised by campus struggles against the Vietnam War, 1962-75. US youth were radicalised by Nixon's crackdown on Uni protests culminating in 1970 with the Kent State massacre by National Guardsmen. A majority of middle class parents agreed with the State: it had a legitimate right to defend itself from internal foes whilst engaged in a external war.
University Leftists took the opposite view. They saw any attempt to halt their increasing violence support for the North Vietnamese & Viet Cong as 'oppression'. They declared 'war' on Nixon and in fact their own parents. Whereas many Weatherman still have not been caught or convicted the higher profile SLA, with its unusual racial mix, was a direct challenge to white dominance and was smashed. Another unique feature of the SLA was the predominance of youth women, many of them Jews.
END OF THE SLA: Zoya, Fahizah, Gelina, Gabi, Cinque & Cujo all died in 1975 during a police assault on their 'safe-house', 84th Street, Los Angeles. When they refused police demands to surrender officers 'accidentally' set fire to the house using tear gas much as later occurred in 1993 to the Branch Davidians Compound, in Waco, TX. Steve Weeds wrote his book My Search For Patty Hearst without ever having talked to her. Hearst's trial lawyer F. Lee Bailey wrote an unpublished manuscript dealing with her case. Wendy Yoshimura was convicted on weapons charges & served a short prison term. None of the later SLA have ever been convicted of anything.
DVD REVIEW: The Valley of Elah (2008) (116 minutes)
Writer, producer, director Paul Haggis for Warner Independent Films. Stars Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron and Josh Brolin. Cast alone should have been a warning, but I'd read nothing but rave reviews of this film. However, JB is son of Barbra Streisand, one of the leading Hollywood Leftists as is SS. Now apparently also CT. CT earlier embraced Nelson Mandela, calling him 'father'. Woman's magazines carried stories of her 'racist' Afrikaaner father who allegedly tried to murder her and her mother before killing himself. But, on the basis of universal praise, I rented it.
TLJ plays to 'type'. His usual stereotypical hard bitten cop, this time a retired US Military Policeman. His first son was killed in Iraq War I. His second has just survived a tour in Iraq War II when he is found butchered and burnt only four days after returning to the US. TLJ investigates after police, both civil & military, show no interest. They write it off as 'drug-related violence'. TLJ finds instead it was his son's own comrades who did him in. In the process he exposes a unit, and an Army, where pathological behaviour is the norm. This is the final conclusion of this long, slow and very dull film: the unjustified Iraq Wars waged by Bush I & II has mutated the once honourable USA into a place where evil triumphs. As a result the amoral Army that fought these wars is now unable to distinguish right from wrong.
HOLLYWOOD AS HEROES? A good point - that an immoral society cannot expect to fight moral wars or have a moral army - but coming from the Hollywood Left it is unbelievable. Ever heard of Roe vs Wade, 1973? Who was it that degraded the human embryo to just 'pregnancy tissue'? Then they act surprised that after 37 years of inhumane, illogical laws their society is imploding. Hello! These are the same 'educated idiots' who boast of 'woman's right to choose' - but only as long as the choice is MURDER. Every new evil is applauded by the Hollywood Left, from unmarried mothers, to teen pregnancies to 'gay marriage'.
s why so many, and not just Islamist militants, shout: 'GOD damn America'. Where did it all begin? Scripture says: "the fool says in his heart: 'there is no GOD' " (Psalm 14 v 1). The result? "They are corrupt, do abominable things & none do good" (ibid). Iis why the godless Left cannot correctly analyse its own dilemma: they deny First Principles. Like the captain of Titanic in denial they may still argue 'what killed America?' 100 years from now. What killed America? Rampant atheism & resultant moral ambiguity. Like soldiers without bullets Americans have been morally disarmed.
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Advice! with Dave & Kat: Episode the 71st!
Posted on September 19th, 2016
Hey! It's Episode the 71st with your pals Kat and the newly-coined Drinkin' Dave (Dave hopes this will not last).
We advise on how to handle with scams of all kinds, why you shouldn't punish people no matter how much you want to, and dealing with defiant (older) subordinates.
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Our listing service for all pre-construction residential projects in Toronto has been steadily growing since its launch earlier in the year; as a result we were recently featured in the National Post. The National Post spoke to our CEO Frank Guido who explained that the listing service eliminates the use of spreadsheets and other cumbersome analysis when looking for a condo. CondoNow features a comprehensive search that allows our visitors to compare floor plans and search condos based on many variables such as walk score, occupancy dates, amenities, and many more. The National Post touched on CondoNow's additional features which include information on launches, remnant inventory, and a system that connects users to potential agents based on their expertise of selected neighbourhoods. Users can also select an agent based on language, a feature never seen before on any real estate listing service. We have been steadily growing and delivering on the promise that searching for a Toronto condo has never been easier.
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Understanding how to complete auto-electrical repairs can help you fix your car without needing to take it into a shop and use money and time. Many car problems are the result of an electrical problem, and this article will walk you through how to fix a blown electrical fuse. When your electrical fuse blows, your headlights won't work. You know that both lightbulbs did not simply go out at the same time. This must be related to the fuses. Other problems such as radio or turn signals can also fail due to a fuse blowing.
Types of Fuses
Cars contain one of the three kinds of fuses. If your car was made before the 1980s, then you probably have a tube or ceramic style. If your car is more recent than that, you have the blade-style fuse. You should know what kind of fuses you have so that you can have a few spare fuses around at all times. Your car may provide a few. Locate the fuse boxes and check.
Finding the Fuse Box Inside Your Car
Finding the fuse box in your car might be a little tricky if you have never done so before because your car contains two fuse boxes. Sometimes the locations differ, but one is always in a compartment near where your left knee is when you are driving. The fuses inside the plastic box are normally marked clearly and should help show you where the fuse for the headlights is. You should be able to locate the fuse based on the diagram. If you have located the correct fuse, you should visually note that it is blown. If the fuse looks fine, then you may have the wrong one. Replace the fuse and search for another one or consider taking your car in for repairs.
Finding the Fuse Box Under the Hood
There is another fuse box under the hood. Its location varies a bit with the design of each car. However, this should be a plastic-looking box that you can open. Once again, you should see a diagram of the fuses present. You will do just what you did with the other box. You will locate the fuse that has blown and replace it with the correct fuse. Once you have closed the box and the hood, your lights should be working once again. If you have replaced the correct fuse, and the lights are still not working, then you may need a professional to help you.Share


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I called this week's ago but now it has been confirmed that Fox's hit drama, "Empire" will end after season 6!
They will have you to think it was due in part to the Smollett situation..but let's be honest.. 'Empire's ratings have been on the down swing well before that debacle. But this is the Spin from the network:
Season 6 promises to be filled with drama, shocking surprises and more jaw-dropping moments," Fox said in a statement on Monday, May 13. "The award-winning drama about a family dynasty set within the glamorous and sometimes dangerous world of hip-hop music has generated chart-topping hits, and socially relevant story lines, introduced 'Boo Boo Kitty' into the zeitgeist and delivered over-the-top OMG moments weekly."
The statement continued: "Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious (Terrence Howard), the two larger-than-life characters at the center of the series, have taken viewers through the highs and lows that come with fame and fortune. As the series enters its final season, one thing is for sure, the Lyons never go out without a bang."
I loved Empire from the beginning. Even when the writing got stale.. I remained a fan to this day. It will be interesting to see how the drama will wrap…but with no plans for "Jamal Lyons" to return for the final season.. Empire may go out like a wimped and not a roar!


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Having problems tonight with several of my websites hosted by @site5 - server problems :-(
@bpuerling just emailed you at last, apologies for the delay :-)
storychasers gr8 use of iMovie trailer theme for student news video ow.ly/rUbTH by @LMSMustangs #OklaEd
#OklaEd if your schedule permits, I encourage you to apply to & attend @TEDxOU on Jan 24! tedxou.com/tickets/
iReading: Tourist walks off Australia pier while checking Facebook j.mp/J6IMMO by @BBCNews #SignOfTheTimes
@edublogs thanks so much for creating the twitter lists for lifetime ach & best tweeter - really helpful! :-) twitter.com/edublogs/lists…
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new post: Great Posts on Interactive Writing (Blogging) j.mp/JEl7DX #etchweb #create2learn
So what's the story on the high ranking Bulgarian blogs in this year's EduBlog awards?!
@diben @mguhlin thank you both for the opportunity to share ideas this evening. Your webinar series theme is SUPER! #etchweb
I updated the "Visual Notetaking" page of Mapping Media j.mp/19zhqcJ w/ visual notes by @jonnygoldstein & an update on @brushesapp
IESYukon We've added 3 new video interviews with Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Stephenson, & Mrs. Dukes to our website! Check them out! yukonps.com/independence/H…
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fun #STEM & design challenge: Balloon Jousting! j.mp/J6oItT by @DesignSquad via Chris Simon
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@mguhlin I just sent you my slides by email for tomorrow's webinar :-)