What do other Aspies do for a living

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I'm a student. I work at a plasma donation center. But I'm going to school for either nursing or to get my m.d. I haven't decided yet.

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Work for Apple retail at the moment, but it's only temporary.

I was in Education (lecturer/manager) for about 12 years. I want to go back.

I work in Medical Physics, doing the physics behind medical imaging. This is my third degree though, I never finished the first two (French, Spanish & Italian and Quantity Surveying respectively). I like this one the most, apart from being based in a busy hospital.

I guess I wonder what to do since I tend to have thought stops.... but maybe those will go away with meds. Hard to communicate with thouhgt stops, and to work in biology teaching.

Bill

I am a substitute teacher, though I am a certified social studies teacher. Although I thoroughly enjoy my job, I am rather selective of the schools I will work in. I could never work in an inner city school due to my Aspie traits.

I am a teacher right now, but more like an entertainer for bored Japanese folk

Retired here since age 43 (after working 70-80 hour weeks for 20 years under some truly horrific conditions). I spent my better years working in the space program as chief engineer of two large government spacetrack radars where the mainframe computers that drove the radars were my specialty. Now I spend my time writing software when I can tear myself away from my other obsessions and collecting and analyzing information on anything of interest to me (my primary obsession and interest since I was a child... eg how about a statistical analysis on the arrival time of the postman each day so I don't go walking to the mailbox only to find it empty... I have actually considered doing that one).

I work in administration, but in the future I would like to get into a project support role in community development/engagement.

I work for an armored truck company as a tech servicing banks, ATMs, and retail locations. Prior to that I served in the Army for 4 years as a tanker.

i am in academics, finishing My PhD in computer science, but still i am not sure if this is the right research field for me.

Psychology and Neuro science would also interest me, but i know nearly nothing about that, but i think that involves a lot of doing experiments and so on, and i am more a theory guy. Maybe oneone can tell me?

@woodpecker, labpet: What are your fields, and are you more into theory or not?

best wishes,
anton

@labpet: "analytical chemistry", ok, I have never heard of that... so do you consider yourself a theory guy or rather a experimental, practical guy?

In a more general perspective my question is: Are there also mostly "theory guys" in psychology or in neuroscience?

thanks
anton