Do you work harder at your job because you are AS?

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I'm a hard worker by default and a perfectionist to boot. Even non-paid activities I do, I do my best at them just because I CAN'T do anything half-assed and live with myself.

Well, I am doing quite well in my job (IT / programmer). But the people-factor is a problem.

But luckily my poor social life allows me to work a bit longer when needed and to put some time in courses. Now I am working at my social (NT) skills, but I think being a manager will not be my thing. Maybe some expert in technology, advising the manager types.

Other things are in balance. For example: my NT co-workers are calling a lot with (girl)friends, spouses, etc., but I have the problem of not sitting quietly for more than 45 minutes. I just need some walking around.

Well, one advantage. I do not occupy the phone for long...
I hate being social on the telephone, like some people. (one time a co-worker was chatting up his girl friend, after a while I got bored and really annoyed with the sweet words and said to him he should drive home and just give her a good ...., he was quite difficult with me afterwards)

All depends on the environment.

Yes

I think so. I have to try real hard to read between the lines and using my common sense but every time I try real hard, I just screw up because I am more literal so I am more concrete and lack more common sense. Also I don't know how to ask my office clerks of how to understand their instructions because I don't want to make them mad having them think am not listening because I am asking questions. I have to make sure I heard them correctly because of their accents, and I have to make sure I am not taking them literal. I'm afraid of telling them they are hard to understand because they aren't speaking very good English. One got mad at me last night in the locker room when I said it to my mother because I didn't know she was in there. I wrote about it in the haven.

Hello,

This caught my attention. I have generally preferred to be left alone and to a certain extent still do. Atleast at work, I don't have to interact much if I work harder and am not bothered as much.

If I am not doing anything, I'm more likely to be bothered, which gives me a bigger incentive to work harder.

I work harder at my job then my co-workers as they spend about half of the time socialising with each other. I only take one break a day (we have 3) with them as I cannot deal with hearing the same bs day after day.

I feel that I do. Once, I was demoted for my "lack of enthusiasm". (Real fair, right? ) Now, even though I'm at a good job and my co-workers really appreciate me, I always feel the need to be on top of my game. Partly it's because I'm a perfectionist and I always do my best, but partly because I'm scared.

I am a travel agent at american express. My biggest storng points are that my productivaty is good and I push the preferd propertys. I am good at giving info on flight times. My tech moniters are good. However my great call experence scores are not that good. great call evels are done by external employes that are physcoligest and thay rate the behavior and the sco skills of the call. I have to work harder at work because it stresses my weakness all the time and the company puts more wight on the gce. It could be my down fall on the job

Certainly, because I have found a profession that I absolutely love. I spend 12 hours a day at work because that is the maximum allowed (pay is the same regardless of how much time I spend there). Then I go home and make plans for the next day. Most of my colleagues are relieved to go home from work and duck out as soon as they can. I rather enjoy spending as much time there as possible. Sometimes I forget that I am getting paid for it.

Indeed, I just realized that I got paid today! See what I mean!

Now I do because some well-meaning soul promoted me and now I have to talk to people all day long. I'd rather stick forks in my eyes. I go home exhausted. I'm plotting my escape back to writing where I don't deal with people.

Yes, I definitely work harder than my colleagues. There is still a lot of discrimination out there, they may not know you are Aspy and you may not know yourself that you are Aspy, but believe me they DO know that you are different and what a NT can get away with you cannot. It's not fair, it sucks, but that is the way the world is and as long as you have to depend on a paycheck you have to play their games.

In some respects my job is ideal for an Aspy. I deal with data all day long and am very detail-oriented. The downside is there is a lot of stress (even for NT's!) and you are expected to be able to multitask and deal with constant distractions, so it is a struggle sometimes to hold it together. Meltdowns are not an option. I have started to be more open with my colleagues as to how they can help me in this area. The trick is to phrase it in ways that they can relate to. It helps that my company has sponsored workshops on communication and problem solving, so I just borrow a few pages from that material, and it generally works.

hahahaha! no!! !! !! !! only because I am in a mcJob whilst i go through university. If I had a job doing what I love then I would probably do it 18hours a day for 6 hours pay

I work harder in so far as most employers
nowadays expect everyone to be socially
inclined.I'm in a shipping office and while I'm
comfortable with the technicalities of the work itself,the task of displaying positive social
tendencies is more demanding.