Best and Worse Careers

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The worst job I've had was the one I was laid off from in April.

I was doing order entry and customer service for a tile company. I had to constantly interact with customers via phone and email while still trying to enter orders and release truckloads on time.

Pay was mediocre, PTO SUCKED.

By the end, I was so burnt out that the firing was a blessing.

Temple Grandin wrote a book called "Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism" in 2004. It lists a variety of possibilities, complete with the background and training requiring, and the features of the career that would be good or bad for people with ASDs.

I was very pleased to find that my career, technical translator, was among her recommended careers. I work from home translating stuff from Japanese to English. I communicate with clients by email, and just have to deliver the job by the deadline; no one knows or cares how or when I work, only that the job is finished properly and on schedule.

I also do some computer consulting, since I'm a geek, dweeb, and nerd all rolled into one.

For me it the best career option would be an IT systems engineer position where I get to do a 50/50 split of telecommute and office "face time". I tried to do that at my last job (my immediate manager begrudgingly approved it). But people outside my team too offense to my telecommuting and complained. The result: EPIC FAIL. Hopefully my next job will be flexible enough to allow me to balance the required face time with my need to telecommute.

I was surprisingly successful in a customer service role because my geeky persona gained instant credibility with the customers I worked with. But the hectic pace and noise of a busy call center (sensory integration issues) did me in in the end.

Thank you all for your input:)

My great uncle was a mail carrier for decades. I scored 24 and 27 on the Wired Magazine test, but when I think of him, he'd be mid-30s at least. He has a few friends, but hates crowds, and will just out of the blue start talking to a person after no contact for weeks. When his older sister died last year, he admitted to me that she'd really held him up a lot - she would always call him to go out to eat and stuff, and all his life she was helping him like that. My great aunt never really thought about it, but I do think my great uncle has AS, even if I'm just borderline between NT and AS.

He really loved the work. But, I do think IT is even better nowadays. Mail carrier was among the best he had available, though.

I'm much better working for myself than I am working for others but if I did, I'd probably go into library science and become an aquisitions librarian (not in a public library, though).

Nowadays, the library field is evolving to require more Web 2.0 and tech skills, so the field is getting pretty interesting.

I personally work in collections. The nice thing about it is you never have to try to read there emotions from body language. Just the tone in the voice, volume, and verbiage. I have worked Factory. Avoid like the plague. I worked phone sales. not bad but the age of most of my coworkers(16-18) meant that I did not get along with them at all.

The place I work is a usually pretty quiet, however I do have to stop working occasionally until the Volume level drops to the normal quiet level. My boss uses one of the aspects of Aspergers(attention to detail) to help the department. I do reports and they keep giving me new ones. I am also the Tech guy for my department.

When doing phone work, if you get an angry customer, the best thing to do is just let them rant. They will eventually run out of steam and you will be able to help them. Don't let what they say bother you.