Call me entitled but...

Post Reply New Topic

I don't want to work in a warehouse. Or unpack produce. Or stock shelves. I find all of those jobs boring and I would underperform. I enjoyed working in a call centre being a debt collector but I was fired in three months because I over stepped my boundaries while collecting debt but I didn't think I did. I was just copying the best collectors around me. I was working with meat at Safeway and I was constantly screwing up and I hated talking to people constantly especially the people I was cutting meat with.

The work of unloading things is hard. I worked at Walmart unloading freight and it was heavy and I was slow. Why would stocking shelves and unloading produce be any different?

A couple of people with aspergers I know work in old people's homes.

Another possibility is tutoring,

A good job is tennis coach, rich people pay good money for people to teach their kids tennis.

I don't want to have long drawn out discussions with old people let alone anybody and I don't know enough about one subject that is taught in school besides economics but I don't have a degree. I also suck at tennis

A hard issue for people with AS, in my view, is dealing with the fact that you can't always find what YOU want in the workplace.

Most every job has stuff that sucks. Most everyone does things they don't like as what is needed to pay the bills.

Learning to cope with that is a big hurdle to being self-sufficient for anyone, but more so for people on the spectrum who find it especially hard to hold a job that asks them to do things they don't enjoy.

Just keep working at it, and work to shift your expectations. See your job as a means to an end...a paycheck which may empower you to do stuff you enjoy.

I know where you're coming from, I've had a hell of a hard time finding good employment as well, as there aren't too many jobs around here that actually play to my strengths, never mind jobs that don't require any sort of qualifications. I'm thinking of looking for a job at the local library though, as I've heard from my friend's mother that it's supposed to be the sort of job that works well for people on the spectrum. It's a quiet environment, and the work itself is supposed to be quite logical, so I can see why it would work for me.

Well gee, OP, what DO you want to do? Go do that!

Seriously though, knowing how to type means never having to do heavy manual labor. You could be doing data entry or transcription or any number of other things.