Uhh losing hope of getting a job...

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Not giving up I keep looking at craigs list and have tried looking into other avenues, but yeah I got one job...they stopped giving hours so whatever, so I figure at least I can add my job tasks as experience for the next job. but keep worrying about even getting one...probably kind of stupid since I already got that one job even though it didn't work for whatever reason(they never told me, just stopped sceduling me for any hours) and I am an awkward aspergers person so obviously I did not assert myself to demand what was going on like one of the pushier waitresses might have...so thus I never got an explination or even a notifcation about being terminated which apparently happened...as I no longer have an account on the employee website I had to try to log in to find that out, didn't even get a notification from the employer that I had finally been terminated after the 4 months of no hours had to try to log in to find that out...lol.

But either way I have more experience working a dishwashing machine and doing food prep than before I got the job...so whatever maybe I can get something else like that for a while to at least build up a little money. My mom tells me I am too intelligent for that...but how else am I going to make money almost seems like restuaurants are one of the few things you can get a background job like dish-washing or preparing food and not have to deal so much with customers. I'd like to do something more but don't know how to do that....I'd really like to do something to help either stray or endangered animals or both, but that has been something I have been interested since I was like 7...but I can't even get a college degree so seems like I'll have to either find another way to make money and volunteer or find a way to make money and figure out my own way to help....seems like there is no entry level position to get into those types of work, or maybe I just don't know about it. But that is what I mean people tell me I am so smart, yet I've never been able to hold a job and didn't do good in college so if i am so smart why can't I just figure out some genius idea.

Find a dog rescue group, try getting work with a dog boarding place, vet etc.. vocational school was a lot easier for me than regular college. Eventually you will figure out what you like and what you’re good at. Try to work on supporting yourself a bit more; don’t let anyone walk all over you. Ask why you were let go. If it was because of anything related to aspergers, then it’s illegal.

Well I've found an ad for a recycling job, says its entry level and I do care about the planet so I might as well send my resume.

Have you considered a vet tech position. The trades are in high demand, don't require 4 years of education, yield a decent salary, and are skilled based. In other words it's not some "management" job where a panel asks questions like how did you handle a situation when a team member was behind in schedule? Or some other B.S. question where you have to pretend to be some sort of outgoing, politically correct, compassionate, caricature to get hired.

Did you hear from the recycling job?

No, I haven't and I am thinking after this long I probably won't be hearing anything from them.

I applied for my job because it sounded "different". I didn't think I would get it, I just wanted to say that I tried, and I definitely would not have applied if they had mentioned that heavy lifting was required. I grew into it though, I'm in pretty good shape now. Sometimes it helps to think outside the box.

Have you tried temp agencies? My work hires temps if they stick around long enough and do a good job. It's a pretty high turnaround for boring positions, like folding boxes, or working on the assembly lines.

I had a job folding boxes before... Wow that was a long time ago... I ended up quitting that one because back then the family had me taking care of my grandmother and I couldn't hold that job and take care of her at the same time.

I look at some landfill/recycling/ refuse collection job which only runs once or twice a week which even though doesn't pay well or get more hours, still struggle to get accepted mainly due to it asking for people who can drive, have some sort of engineering qualification or experience to back them up, really annoys me that they ask for extreme requests to get the best people on the job leaving people like me behind with nowhere to go. who would want to work as a binman or refuse collector straight out of college or university? that certainly wasn't my mindset when I left.

Just upset because, I am just now really realizing how much barriers the autism causes me as far as pursuing goals. Like I can't just fake it and make money....i need a job where the disorder is recognized and they realize even if I am not good at customer service I can still be one hell of a worker, just give me a task to do and I'd get it done....but the requirement of 'great social and customer service skills, to work in a fast paced environment' is where I fail. I can't do that...but then a lot of jobs that don't require that stuff require regularly lifting 50 pounds or more according to job adds and well I am too small to do that on a regular basis without likely damaging my body.

And I am afraid disability services to help disabled people find jobs will deem me too 'high functioning' for their programs so yeah I don't know what to do.

I wish the world was like star trek, get a promotion based on actual character than how well you avoid social blunders.