Five fields an Aspie should NEVER work in

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I MUST be an Aspie! I HATE sales and failed miserably at it. I LOVE computers and have been tearing them apart and fixing them since 1991. I learned most of the useful commands of DOS and installing all versions of windows. When they had those gigantic Computer Shopper books, I would grab the latest edition and read it cover to cover. I also love radio communications and repair. I want to get deep into Linux setup and system configuration, that would be a blast!!

Job that an aspie should never have?

Garbageman.

man, I tried working at Dillard's. In Sales. Because my parents guilt tripped me into it with the BILLS. not that I minded helping, but it was just one trauma after another. I was DAMN good at my job AHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA ( I handled liek, 15 people in a single group once, who came in right after closing. I WAS AWESOME OMG.) i think my manager was going to promote me (sob cry wibble whine) but it made me so stressed i was crying and hysterical every morning and night and seeing black bugs crawling on me al lthe time, and hallucinating. sooner or later I would have snapped and gone all Valeyard on people. i got sick with the flu I was so stressed, and THat was the opening I needed taht let me quit that crazy hell hole. ;( so much for that job. haven't be nable to work since.


I feel like my brain, becaue of the adhd/asperger's/processing deficit acts lie a zombie. I cna;t hardly do anything like work becaue I never know if I am gonna be lurching or flying or a strange quantum mechanics mess of in between the two... employers no likie that.

;( does anyone else feel liek that, the zombie-lurch brain? like the snags in the brain-river change all the time so you can;t map them except sometimes?

What kind of job would allow for that type orf person.. I guess it's what we ALL want to know... ;O

If I was working and people came in right after closing I would have told them to GTFO.

yeah... hahadh. I wish. It was bunch of Mexicans or like people and the only one who coudl speak English was their 12 year old daughter. the poor girl had to translate for all of them... not dissing Mexicans, just saying that they were MExicans or like Mexicans. i thnk they said where they were from, but I can;t remember. some awesome place, but i cna't remember. ;( and the nthe two Asian??? ladies who came in, very pretty and nice, a bit odd around the dresses, but they always came in RIGHT AT CLOSING. to look at ALL THESE DRESSES and OMG/. STOP PLEASE GOD!! at least BUY SOMETHING. please? ladies? please? I AM GOING INSANE HERE. BEFORE I GO POSTAL YOU MUST LEAVE MY FRICKIN STORE!! ! NOW. do you se that sign it means WE ARE CLOSEDDD! ;O
but no, I am SERVICE WITH A SMILE! yep yep! I was awesome!! ! that made me SO proud.

but I got sick. and realized i shouldn't work in a place li that.

;(


wibble.
what about you guys? )))

Aspies are not cut out to work in a lot of fields that require human interaction. Aspies find it hard reading social cues, expressing emotions and they usually have poor communication skills.

Very broad stroke. Certain things can be learned, especially in job related rolls.

whtrabbt.

totally yeah.

It's like our brains are one of those 3-d quantum mechanics graphs they keep plastering all over NOVA.

Going to the emergency services part of the OP, I woud agree with that part. However, I do think an Aspie could make a great investigator based off the attention to details.

YEah, dude.. I used to DREAM about being a PI, but it isn't as fun as it used to be, it seems.

Pesky dna.

hehehe

back when William Hopper was playing on Perry Mason, that was the gooood Timmmmes baby!

I would disagree on the PI. PI's need to be able to talk to people, smooth and quick whitted, also to be able to lie convincingly.

well, I am a libra, a person who is good at patterns... it's like I've got certain kinds (not all, mind) of pattern recognition software, so I would be good at THAt part...

once I realised how to -use- my software and diagnose and apply patterns to people, i suddenly understood a lot more.

can everybody do that? Beacsue I have no idea.

Erm, excuse me...

Library ASSISTANTS (or clerks as you call them) have the most public interaction in a library, since librarians are caught up in stock work and therefore their desk work is minimalised. There is no such library job in which you only arrange books according to rule and issue them in a robotic manner.

Library ASSISTANTS have to deal with people of multiple nationalities, ages and mental capabilities, have to throw out fighting teenagers, help with IT problems, assist people in finding books, answer enquiries on anything from gretna green elopements to the address of the local job centre, offer local information, and, at all times, be friendly, helpful, calm and sociable. It is highly likely when shelf-tidying (as it is properly called ) that you will be randomly jumped by a member of the public wanting to know anything from where the toilet is to whether you have any more books by (x) author, which is exactly the same as being hailed in a sales environment. Only often the information is more varied. You might be asked to uncrash someone's laptop, the text of which is entirely in a language you don't understand...or you might just be asked whether you might have a book on venus fly traps. Oh, and when you're sorting the children's library, it's very possible a class of kids will descend on you, call you "miss" and treat you like teacher as they look for books that interest them.

THIS IS A VERY SOCIAL JOB with a LOT of unpredictability and not much actual routine.

As an Aspie, I worked this job for 7 years and received commendation for my public skills and customer service. Which just proves that jobs don't depend on the disability, but the individual. In my case, too, I had to run the county requests, which meant dealing with internal and external branch staff, public requesters and training other staff.

Please don't dismiss something as impossible when it's not. On the contrary, it's a lovely job and I miss it very much (I left because my library was closed down by government cuts). I am currently trying to get another library job, so that should tell you everything =D.

There has been so much turn around in the agency I work in that I have gone from being an assistant to department manager in two years. It went from simple, repetitive work to planning, organizing, meeting, etc etc so much to do no time to rest or THINK really THINK because you have to do do DO and I'm really about to lose my mind!!

ohman, I KNEW IN MY BONEs that my manager was probably going to promote me. They couldn't figure out why I was so good and so socially inept. they saw, I guess, my edge-dwelling, and kept wondering. but i was goooood and they told me so without TELLING me so, you know? little comments and hints.

I am SO gratefu to the universe for giving me that job, but i doubt I will EVer work in such a socially horribe place again. ;O three girls who worked there were utter psychos and preyed on the rest of us!! ! one, an older woman form another junior's section, crept up behind you to unnerve you and then when you squealed in fear she would say, why are you responding THat way, as if it was wierd and not completely normal to freak out when old, evil-grinning bitter Anna from Supernatural was suddenly standing behind you. Needles to say, all i did was startle; i did NOt squeal. I was not going to cave to her creepo tactics.

the other one would play mind games by saying certain things to make you feel welcome, then being completely evil later. That one I was worried about, becuase she was studying PSYCHOLOGY. ;O

haha I am so much better at it than her now, despite my lack of degree. man, she was scary. i hope she doesn't hurt anyone.
;O oops, i went off topic again! SORRYY!

Sales has to be the worse.

I worked for a year in a travel agency that specialized in cruises.

Now, I had worked as a travel consultant before and I loved it because there was no lying or hiding of facts. When people asked me about places I had tons of literature, personal experiences (since I was assigned to Asia region and thats where I've traveled the most) and suggestions. In short, I sold them the package as if I was preparing my own trip. I LOVED it.

So, when I say that cruise sales are horrid...believe me. They tell you that you cannot lie but you are encouraged to distort the truth about the ship, destinations and cruise line services. On top of that, it was part of my metrics to sell them tons of add-on crap. Not offer.. SELL it.

To add salt to the wound half of my call time was mandatory script reading. Most of it was nicely worded disclaimers that whatever I told them was not to be expected on their trip. Aka, 'im legally lying to you har har' .

I burned out and left. I did not shed a tear when that company went bankrupt a few years later. It was actually spiritually uplifting.