I'm XX years old, unemployed, and Aspie. Add your name here
Same here except I am 10 years older than you and basically unemployable and I have to 'start over'.
I occasionally get temp jobs -- the most recent one was with a financial services company in NYC that ended after 3 days -- no reason was given only that 'the client ended your assignment'. Somehow I don't give off the right vibe or something even though I thought I was picking up the work well
That's what I don't get either. From my experience, when companies decide not to hire you after an interview or choose to fire you, they never EVER tell you directly that it's because your social skills are not up to par with what they're looking for. If you ask and that's the case, they'll either not respond to you or they'll give you a frivolous reason as to why they chose someone over you. I feel like the main reason why I lost the job I had was because I didn't fit in with the staff members, even though they said it was because I wasn't as experienced as they thought I would be upon hiring me.
I'm 23, unemployed and not an aspie.
I have only worked once in my life and it was during the summer. It was part-time, only lasted two weeks before I was laid off and I think the only reason I was hired was because I had another person with me during the interview and they liked that person.
32 and unemployed. never had a job for more than some weeks or perhaps a few month. no finished education eiter. even the employment center does not know what to do with me, yay. -.-
aspie... sort of, i definitly lack a lot of skills and abilitys which are necessary to get a regular job. first of all the ability to stay in a room with the same people for a long period of time or do something i was told in a period of time i cannot determine myself.
I'm a 41 year old unemployed aspie.
I've worked a grand total of 7 months since 2001.
4 months in 2005 on a temp gig where my dad works, helping the cable network he forks for move their facilities. I was installing video equipment & running cables.
then I recently worked 3 months at a 7-11 convenient store. That was a total NIGHTMARE! Definitely not a job for aspies. I just plain stopped showing up without any notice.
Before 2001, I used to build web sites and do graphic design. But the internet bubble burst and I never recovered.
I have been surviving with financial assistance from my dad. But he's getting older now and close to retirement.
That makes me really nervous. I really do not want to take the public assistance route, I can't stand dealing with bureaucracies, they make me crazy.
I have a pseudo "job" coming up at the first of the year, doing some work I can do at home "crunching numbers".
That should be fine for me since I love math. I'll be paid a piecework rate. Hopefully this can prove to be something stable until I can learn more about computer programming and get some help with job search skills.
I'm 29 years old, unemployed, and an aspie. Now that I finally know what I want to do in life, all I have to do is find a job so that I can go back to school. But I don't have a way of getting around and it just makes my struggles 100 times worse so I'm looking for work online instead. On top of that, my family shows no support and doesn't understand that Asperger's has always affected me. They think I'm lazy and that I just don't want to do anything with my life, but what they don't understand is that I want to so badly be a great hairstylist someday but that I struggle on a daily basis. Their lack of support infuriates me and makes me feel even worse.
I'm almost 22,unemployed and not sure whether I'm aspie or not. I got my H.S diploma last year, have worked one day per fortnight, cleaning a friend's house, and cannot find a suitable job to apply for, given my lack of social skills and skills required for the jobs on offer, as well as being refused the opportunities to gain work experience.
I just turned 21 and I have two jobs and nearly a bachelor of arts. I wasn't employed at all until August and about a month ago I got another job. I work as a house cleaner and a liquor store clerk. I hope to get some sort of vocational training once I finish my degree but I'm becoming more content with the idea of working in retail for a decent part of my young life; its just one of those things some people have to do, I consider myself lucky to have gotten this far given my circumstances and I don't want to get too begrudged like I have in the past. Being employed is a source of self esteem, income and valuable experience in my opinion and I'm going to do everything I can to keep employed for at least the next 4 months and hopefully beyond that too.
I'm 33, unemployed (by choice), and an Aspie.
Domestic engineering is a full-time job. Too bad it doesn't pay, and you can't write it down on a resume.
If all else fails, I'll head back into the hills. Be the Wild Woman of the Appalachians. I'd be good at it.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
im 20 and unemployed. i want work so badly. financial independance would be great. i wish i could say i want a job so i could stop living so tight but i'd probably just save everything because i want enough to rent a place and i want out of here more than anything. probably not gonna happen for a while. i've got 4.5 years of uni mimimum left and this aspie is gonna try find work as a teacher. the future is bleak. it doesnt help i'm from an ethnic and sexual minority. oh and im a socialist. who want to hire a socialist? i don't have to tell people about my politics but most of the human interaction i get is from stuff i do with the socialist organisation i am with and i need to prove i can communicate to my employers somehow. i am screwed.
Socialists collect their welfare payment or disabled pensions and choose not to work. Aspergers is the biggest cop out/excuses the lazy welfare collecting socialist has up his or her sleeve. Aspergers and ADD: are just two disorders that can not be cured.
Socialist is a polite political term for a lazy welfare leeching parasite.
Socialist is a polite political term for a lazy welfare leeching parasite.
are you trolling a forum for autists with this ablist, right wing flotsam? it's just that i've never been trolled before and was wondering if this is what trolling is... most people have no idea what aspergers is- how can they, socialist or not, use it as a cop out? also i'm not on welfare and there are people here of all political pursuasions on welfare- there is no shame in that and i'm not sure what your point is.
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