Useless Talents

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So Aspies are supposed to be very good at focused fields. We have special interests and obsessions that can lead to great problem solving. However . . . sometimes I feel my talents are completely useless and would definitely never land me a job. One of my fav positions was in a daycare.

I loved tending to the toddlers and keeping their play, feed, change, nap schedules and cleaning the daycare classroom at the end of shift. Not to mention that changing dirty diapers and the like did not bother me as much as I liked the peace of the work and the enjoyment of being with the babies.

Well I lost the job because we had a health meeting to attend and it was crowded. All of the employees where there, a lot of talk, i could barely focus on the material, i panicked and ran out. My boss didn't let me attempt the meeting again, didn't even fire me, she just never re-scheduled me again and tried to give my roommate my hours, which she refused, so she got let go too.

This was a few years ago and I still miss the job and the babies.

I worked as a waitress for a bit after that and though I liked it, i hated the fact that it was family owned and all of them wanted to give me different instructions. The cook wanted the orders written a certain way, his daughters wanted it a dif way because it was "faster to write them" the wife wanted me to wear make up and perfume, which would have really messed with me between asthma, allergies and sensitivity to scent. The other daughter wante me to do big party tables. I had surgery on a foot and they did not give me sitting breaks and wanted me to clean the bathrooms. So I quit.

I tried getting a data entry job, never got call backs. so i have been unemployed and living off student refunds and food stamps for about a year now. Worse I think my talents will do nothing to make me employable. I like to cook, but i do not do so by guidelines, i think i would hate culinary school. My math sucks, my obsession with Glee, music, fiction books, EQ2 shadowknights, soft pastel drawing wont help, either. My excessive chattiness is also off putting and when im quiet people think I am mad or upset. I suck at science and have little interest in it, I like database management, but not as a career. Business is good, lots of paperwork i like paperwork, but hate the social aspect past surface acquaintance.

I am good at a lot of crud that no one would pay me for.

Child care is a skill that is always in demand.

Have you looked at other child care places?

I have, but they usually are not hiring, or are based off one of the churches and they prefer if you are christian, which I am not. Or to be a member of their church. Even though I lied once for a child-care position, didn't tell them I wasn't christian. But their daycare went as a volunteer program and I was let go.

set up your own childcare.. start small, perhaps informally ? find somewhere else to volunteer?

Well I like paperwork and one of my roommates is saving money to start a lawn care service. I am going to talk to them about doing the paperwork such as the books and the client account keeping. That would be a simple matter of using excel spreadsheets and though I still miss the daycare job when I think of my poor excuse of a work history, I think this would be good for me, too.