What is a good job for people with AS?

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I will be unemployed soon due to outsourcing. I'm trying to figure out what type of job would be the best for me. I like to work alone and dislike management. My current position has been too challenging for me. I'm a Ops Support Assistant II in a credit card processing center. I have worked in the Print Department and the Pre Sort Department. I prefer to just work by myself. If others are too close to my work area it bothers me and I can't focus very well. I would like to work at home but have no idea how to go about getting a job that would allow me to do that. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Network Security.
Systems Administration
Network Administration
Compliance / Reporting.

All good areas, and all areas that I know many Aspies and Auts work in.

I work as a combination of System tester, user tester and proofreader for a software company.
I am able to pretty much devide my time between these three tasks as i see fit, and have little to do with management; as long as the assignments are done in time

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I would see about just setting up your own sell-via-Amazon business. Find suppliers from the least-expensive sources possible (such as getting contacts from China if possible but make sure that they're trust-worthy) then just re-sell any hot-selling products (hint: it's easier to sell a product that people are already looking for, such as any variety of computer-components, like Microsoft-Keyboards, than it is to sell products that nobody has ever heard of before).

I am not going to teach you how to be an expert in entrepreneurship though as it factually does take years of study/practice/field-testing (and sacrificing of a lot of personal-time just to focus entirely on perfecting & improving your business-routines/designs/etc) to get everything right & have the resources accumulated up to the point of where you can pull it off confidently & consistently. Certain types of business can be designed to require minimum interaction.

I myself have found a niche as a specialist at figuring out people with disabilities. Most people over look a lot of what might be going on under the skin and since I naturally find it easy to read people with problems it was a great fit, not to mention I don't have to deal with people that judge makes it awesome.

Before I had kids and gave up working I used to temp because I got bored and frustrated being in one place for too long. I used to prefer data entry or Audio typing as it meant I could get on with a stack of work with minimal interaction with others.

It depends, as every Aspie is different and have different interests, strengths and state of mind.

If you're an Aspie similar to me, suffering from social anxiety and crippling shyness, then you're best off doing a job what is in the background, doesn't require much social skills, and where you are not under any pressure to talk to the public. I'm hoping to get a job cleaning buses in the depot yard, where I am not dealing with the public or having to work where there are members of the public watching me doing my job (that makes me anxious). I can deal with stress or demanding tasks in a job if it does not involve the public. Interaction with my co-workers does not make me anxious.

I have been working for 7,5 years as a security guard. The job mostly consists of mobile patrol.
I must admit that i had some difficulties the first few months to get used to closing buildings in the evening and opening them in the morning. Once i learned the routines, social scripts on how to talk to people and somehow keep eye contact ocassionaly, everything went fine. Going to alarms is easy if you stick to the basic rules that you learn as a security guard. If you follow those rules, it doesnt matter if it is a building that you visited 100 times before or if you visit it for the very first time. However, there are some weird things in which you get sent to somewhere.
-Assisting People, you never know beforehand what they want from you or their special wishes.
-This include assisting the police.
-Technical alarms ( i am not a mechanic! )
-Telephone line died (again, not a mechanic )

It can be stressful because you dont really know beforehand what to expect. Also, arriving at a building where the alarm went off, to see an open door / thrown in window etc/ can be quite overwhelming the first few times. In my working area, we usually go with 2 people to unusual alarms. By that i mean, locations in which the alarm almost never goes off so we can safely assume that something really is going on there.




There are always some pros and cons.

pros :
-Very few contact with colleagues. You can be friendly and try to fit in or you can just avoid them during breaks and keep it strictly professional if you dont feel like talking today and just see them when you need keys.
-Social scripts can be quite overwhelming to learn at the beginning but is easy to execute once learned. Ocassionaly when personell of an company accidently made the alarm go off, you have to speak to them and ask for their ID. There is always some variance to the social scripts as you also try to keep the interaction as NT as possible.
-Freedom. You are (almost) free to drive anywhere to the area you are working.

Cons :
-Like i already wrote above, social scripts need to be self-taught so this kind of job is pretty much for the 'imitation' personality type as explained in tony attwood's 'a complete guide to asperger syndrome'. Chances are if you fit in this category that you will never get diagnosed because you are a master at acting and using scripts.
-It can be fustrating for people with autism to close buildings in the evening at irregular times due to overtime work, or when you encounter personell that is working till late but you were not informed about it early on.
-You are responsible for alot of keys and if you dont make putting keys back in the safe locker instantly when your task is done a routine, you may end up searching for them in your pockets or worse, somewhere in your car.
-Being socially naive and sometimes saying too much without any remorse in the moment to customers may get you into trouble. Luckily, i never had anyone fill in a complaint to me.. but boy, i sure made some blunders.