Aspies and Wanting To Seek Financial Wealth

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Agreed, Free Spirit! Because we Aspies need a GREAT intensity in a job we are passionate about in order to gain pleasure. The best thing is to use your brain to the maximum potential and enjoy it so you won't feel too much pressure but at the same time earn others' respect. Why do some NT's respect Aspies? Because they are passionate and experts in their fields. If you are looking for a life partner, the suitable partner may come if you choose the right field as you have something in common to enjoy and appreciate.

I guess I'm cynical, but I tried to do the "do what you love' thing and it didn't work at all. These days I'm more about finding work that I can tolerate and that won't stress me out too much. I know what my interests and passions are, and they are either not marketable or else the field they are in has changed to the point where "networking" is more important than technical skills. If you're lucky enough to have interests that can easily translate into a career, that's great, but it isn't the reality for many of us. We have to do what we can, and just try to make it. I think the best solution for a lot of people is a sort-of compromise between passion and reality. And sometimes it's less important to love your work than it is to not be totally miserable doing it.

The best job I ever had involved very little thinking at all, it was great because it wasn't a drain on me and I was able to think about whatever I wanted, listen to the radio, books on tape, whatever, while I was doing it. I had no passion for it, but neither did I dislike it, and I was able to completely forget all about my job when I left each evening. Unfortunately, it was done away with due to technology.

Just the opinions of a 37-year old Aspie who has had numerous career reboots, has a graduate degree [and the student loan to go with it], professional certifications, is still struggling, and wishes that he'd made different decisions 20 years ago, and especially wishes I'd never heard the idea of "Do what you love...the rest will follow."

Doing what you love is a whole lot easier said than done. Like taxman said, it's all about networking and social skills now. Technical skills are of no value anymore.

Hi, all.
Taxman, could I ask what was it that you loved and was then driven away from? I just had ASD diagnosis myself and the questions of 'what would you like to do for a living' and 'what are you passionate about' are being bandied about like the-answer-to-everything. A lot hinging on this...including the possibility of re-rentering college...
Maybe participating in 'something you love' is only a piece of it and figuring out how to 'overcome' the rest of it is more the thing?
Thx.
YaYa

One of the reasons that I plan on learning a trade, you needtechnical skills in those, and if all else fails you can always start your own business. I want to avoid having to ever interview for an office job.

One of the best careers I can think of is fixing electronics, taking them apart finding the problem and correcting it. And being paid to do it, that would be nice.

Yeah, people who have a lot of interest and ability in fixing things, computers, electronics, etc., can have a much easier time of it so long as they aren't pressured into going into "management."
Unfortunately for me, those areas aren't things that I'm good at.

The job I liked was a data entry job with the Post Office--it was eliminated when the letter sorting machine technology reached the point where they could read most handwritten letters--our positions were only a stopgap measure for a few years while they were developing the technology.
I was able to continue working for them as a mail sorter, that was a fairly good job too, lots of routine and regular patterns.

I went back to school and went into accounting because I enjoy working with numbers [but mathwise I can't go any farther than basic algebra] and like the sense of order of it, but the reality of the job is quite a bit different, or at least so far that's been my experience. Currently I'm unemployed. Hoping things will turn around this year and I'll find a job that is a better fit for me than my old public accounting tax job.