Hello my question is does me having Asperger's Syndrome mean

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Hello my question is does me having Asperger's Syndrome mean I must be stick doing dead end jobs or low skilled for the rest of my life ?

I don't know. You should probably ask Mark Zukerberg or Bill Gates.

<--- Teenage enema nurse.

<--------- unemployed hospital surgical tech/central material supply tech/ward clerk/billing coder/audio restoration technician.

<---- Sort-of self employed I.T. know-it-all, mobile developer and software tester. Actually I'm up late as I type this working up the wherewithal to update the living daylights out of a particularly difficult Android tablet. It's not an easy economy for anyone, I believe that's why so many AS people choose such different careers. I don't think I'll be doing this forever, it just feels like a good foothold. The longer I spend studying while I'm young (not that I ever felt young since I learned to speak), the more it can pay off when someone decides I'm worth hiring. I don't think I have a gap to close, I just habitually learn things and occasionally write a resume. People take notice when you've come in contact with more sides of your profession than the usual. I'm no iPhone developer, that's a certainty. Server side work is where my mind's at...

No you don't.

What would you like to do?

<-------------- Ex-fast-food waitress. Housewife. Hubby swears I could do anything. Maybe I could, I don't know. I am doing what I want to do.

<--- more than full-time employed computer technician working for a vast variety of companies.

Audio Restoration Technician sounds intriguing to me. Could you tell me how you got into it and describe the job and your experiences with it?

<------formerly in the insurance biz, 11yrs at the same company.

and get this: i'm *really* bad at math -- go figure (unintended pun )...but i'm pretty good with a calculator!

here's a novel for any really bored people out there:

i worked my way up quickly from the very bottom: starting as a clerk typist, then processor, claims adjuster, broker, appraiser, company trainer, and finally, risk management advisor. my clients were mainly CEO's and pro athletes in the NFL and NHL...and I HATE SPORTS with a passion. but i think that was an asset, because i wasn't overly impressed by anyone, ever. (now, if i'd been dealing with *rock stars*, it would have been an entirely different story. )

i initially got hired due to my "aspie-fast" typing skills. without them, i wouldn't have stood a chance at getting in the door. btw, i intentionally type in lower case these days, as it's much more comfortable -- you should try it sometime, lol...and, yeah, i realize that my punctuation sucks, but most NT's don't have a clue in that area, anyway. in fact, the president of our company graduated from Harvard -- i kid you not -- and he couldn't spell beyond a fifth grade level! yet, he was a genius in business and law.

and now, back to our regularly scheduled programming (ADD much, Shizzle? ):

as i moved up the ranks, it became very stressful, but the money was SO good, nobody in their right mind would quit. well, the stress finally got to me, at which point, i was no longer in my right mind. as, even though i'm an extrovert, with above average NT social skills, i've always had a problem with panic attacks due to social anxiety, which grew exceedingly worse with time, to the point of daily...makes no sense, eh? then again, looking back, i think it may have been as a result of brain overload, due to increasing demands on executive functioning.

i'm so "close to normal" in many areas, and so freaking not in many others.

anyway, i think if i'd stayed in the position of claims adjuster, i would have had a better chance at being okay...because i could work at my own pace, without interruption, there was very little social contact with clients or co-workers, and i loved the job itself.

thank you for asking strictly autodidact in that regard- back in 1986 I read several articles in various hifi/stereo rags about how computers were being used to digitize and restore back-catalog recordings in record company vaults so they could be reissued with sound quality sufficient to meet modern expectations, IOW the surface noises would be removed, flaws cosmetically removed and the sound rebalanced/enhanced to sound more modern and musically euphonic/more true to the original studio sound. so I determined at that time that I would try to get involved with that, as I have a large collection of old recordings [on 78 rpm records, 45 rpm records and LPs, as well as hundreds of audio cassettes] that I knew would sound much more pleasing were the noises removed and the other aural flaws corrected. fast forward 5 years, I was reading a book at tower books [remember them?] about the relatively new field of computer audio, and in the back of the book was a floppy disc [remember those?] with two free audio .wav editing programs on them, namely Wave for Windows, and Sound Forge 1.0- so I bought the book, installed those programs and digitized [on a very primitive and underpowered 386 PC with 4 megs of RAM and 120 meg hard drive] a few of my old records, and tried my best to use these clunky old primitive programs on a clunky old primitive pc, and managed to at least remove [through laborious/tedious application of spot-edits using blunt force tools] thousands of isolated clicks and pops on these recordings, it took months to do this. but finally I could listen to these old faves without flinching at each loud click or pop! I was hooked, I only had to wait until the home technology caught up with my intent, and in 1995 the first iteration of DART [Digital Audio Restoration Technology] came on the market, it was the first semi-automated impulse noise [clicks and pops] remover, and it worked sorta ok [if one was patient and watchful, it made lots of goofs that had to be manually corrected]. fast forward 18 years and now I have CEDAR DCX Declicker and CRX Decrackler that do in real time what it used to take months for me to do. they are godsends.

however, nobody would hire me to do this stuff, it was and is limited by a reluctant marketplace for my services, to just being a highly involved serious hobby, a labor of love, for me. In 20+ years I've had fewer than 5 paying jobs. that won't put a new roof over my head or patch the holes in the roof that I already have. oh well, I just have to accept that I was born without the entrepreneurial genes.

auntblabby, If I had the money I'd hire you to do audio restoration for me. One of my hobbies/special interests involve utilizing old recordings that are often in really bad shape. I have audio software, but I find it doesn't really do a good job of restoring audio without damaging certain frequencies and such.

Definitely sounds like interesting stuff to me.

what software do you have?

Primarily Adobe Audition for editing. Logic Pro for recording. Been using Audition since it was Cool Edit back in the days. Glad they brought it to Macs.

<--------- Unemployed ICT degree graduate, systems enthusiast and software design enthusiast, but back house admin is a start.

All that is needed is to be positive and prove people wrong, focus onto something that you excel at, the sky's the limit

No it doesn't...I'm living proof!