Curious, What's your occupation?

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I'm a medical secretary and I suck so bad at my job. Or at least that's how I perceive myself. They've kept me five years and I'm not sure why. My lack of knowing what to say in certain situations makes things particularly bad. I can't BS anything. If I don't know something, I don't know it. I never know how to properly explain things to people or introduce myself and I pretty much make myself look like an idiot every single day I'm there. Long story short: I hate my job.

Currently I'm a student, but my eventual goal is to provide career counseling to adults with special needs. Hypothetically I will go about this by getting my MS in Human Resource Management (will be done in about 19 months) and then working in HR 5-10 years so that I better understand the hiring side of employment. How well this will actually work out remains to be seen, though, and I may well end up having a completely different career path.

(I've also worked the past 8 summers as a counselor at a day camp in my hometown. It's a great job for me because, as several have mentioned, kids don't care if you're a little quirky, and most of my communication with parents is via email or hand-written notes. Also, since the camp is 10 minutes away from my parents' house and is only open 8-4 Monday through Friday, it's easy for me to go home and recharge with some alone time in my room. I'd keep doing it forever if it paid better.)

Painter. I believe I gravitated to this because it's only after I have painted (or sometimes videotaped) people that I can really see what they look like. In the past I did mid-level computer work.

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I garden for an old couple in their 70's. They're sweet but I only make $60 a week from that.

I'm also a part-time administrative assistant at a small technical school, but I don't get paid there because I'm working there in lieu of paying for certification training.

Gonna have to find a real steady job soon..

Currently I am working one or two nights a week as a dish washer in a busy restaurant. It's not something I want to do forever, but the good thing about it is I don't have to deal with customers. I am also starting a course one day a week next month.

Right now I'm a housewife but I've had lots of jobs in the past, some pretty different ones too.

I have;

Worked at a hospital as a pharmacy courier and later as a neonatal tech, unit clerk, scrub tech, and secretary to a doctor
Been a vet tech at two different places
Done bounty hunting - not steady work, maybe a job or two a month
Did some private detective work for a company - not steady work, same as above
Waitress in a bar and also in a strip club
Cooked and served at a health food restaurant
Wrote an op-ed column for a small local paper in Bham
Been a cashier in several different places
Hung duct work


I'm a housewife by choice now, and also because there is no work here in town and I have no transportation to the city.

I'm a theme park ride op, for the second consecutive, third non-consecutive season. I also did two month-long stints as a Christmas casual for Royal Mail. That won't likely happen again as the local mail centre has closed. Never had a permanent job.

You just reminded me! I don't know how I forgot to include the game at the carnival, because I so enjoyed going with them and doing that. I think I probably forgot to include it because it wasn't even like actual work. I had so much fun doing it that to me, it was like going to the fair every night.

Oh, and for a few months I worked at a place that did insurance physicals. I drew blood, ran EKG's and pasted them up to send, collected urine samples, took vital signs. I did not enjoy that at all. Every one of the techs had our own small office, with a desk and a door and all that. I liked that at first but this horrible boss lady that I had just did not like me at all. Had it in for me. It wasn't a very friendly place and she would come in and tell me to do something and hand me files and I would have no idea what she was talking about. I'd figure it out usually, by looking at other ones or once or twice I'd ask somebody but I basically just winged it until I was fed up with her and quit. That lady had the most boobs I've ever seen on display during the day that wasn't in a breast cancer awareness poster. I don't know how she did it but she had these huge DD boobs and she got them up so high and so stuffed together that I swear she must have used duct tape, and then she would wear a dress so low that you could almost see nipple. You could see more of her boobs than on Baywatch (which wasn't on yet then).

I always WONDERED how they did that!

I'm trained as a librarian but I work w metadata for databases. I can also hyperfocus and get tons done in a short period of time. I enjoy it most of the time; it's the office politics I can't handle.

I think Aspies can do all kinds of jobs. In fact, I think my family doc is on the spectrum. Not sure how he'd react to me saying that. Come to think of it, my son's orthodontist shows very obvious signs.

We are all on the spectrum, it just matters to what degree our quirks become disabilities. Just my opinion.

just got hired to literally watch videos of intersections, and count the cars, bikes, and pedestrians. staring at a tv with a controller in my hand. kind reminds me of this little thing called video games. not much social interaction required. kinda twitchy. lol. definitely not for everyone, but i know some people on the spectrum would probably be good at it.

I got my diploma in Early Childhood Education but I found it too stimulating and draining. I also had problems working with the other people at the daycares and being authoritative to the children sometimes. I miss it sometimes but I know it's not something I will be doing for the rest of my life.

I'm currently switching over fields and taking Library and Information Tech. College is going okay so far but I failed my Cataloguing course because I'm not good with numbers and memorizing codes and rules. My field placement went pretty good though. I worked in a university social sciences library.

I'm currently going to college for a degree in photography and digital imaging but I'm currently working part-time as an archivist scanning historic documents in the college's library basement. I also work part-time as an extra photographer for a local newspaper. I primarily do sports photography for them as that is the type of photography I'm most interested in.

Childcare is very stimulating and very draining. That's why I have meltdowns a lot at the end of work when I get home. I can't be around people after work and I get very angry. I need to be left alone to get my emotional energy back. But I do it for the children even if it's causing me harm emotionally. And I'm the only one who can recognise the children on the autism spectrum because they are just like me.

Sounds fun:)) mentally draining too I should imagine. I know there are various jobs within the royal mail but they seem to require a fast pace of work and be able to drive .
In regards to some of the other stuff people have wrote, I'm saying that digital photography was part of my I.T course, one I also tried to complete last year and yet again got stuck with excel matter. I know that many people are great at it, but numbers are not my thing. Anyway, at the mo, im just trying to get by in another karmic ordeal with other aspects of volunteering, as I was given a chance to overcome my obstacles and retrace back to some of the things id like to do as well as start with a clean slate, with perhaps the guarantee of paid work later on, which would be good.

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I don't work right now and there are very few people who would like to know inwhat I did for a living in detail I used to work in the department of hospitals most people would like to avoid at all costs .

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