Finding and Keeping jobs - Tips and Advice

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I'm sorry I haven't kept up with this thread, but I need to jump back in because I'm about to lose my job of 34 years. Everything went sort of OK for all that time, but ever since the HR department asked people to declare their disabilities and I put down Asperger's and how I need help with some things, things have really gone sour. My supervisor now viciously attacks me verbally every time I make some tiny little mistake (usually paperwork checking). I feel like he's trying to fire me.

Wow... how did I not go through this thread before? Lots of reading yet to do...

I have mild Asperger's but its unforeseen to people unless I say so. Which most of the time i'm reluctant to do seeing as I was diagnosed at twenty with the disorder and only because I found things comparatively similar to me on a g.ps guide to it.
Id say that most of the traits I once had have died down as Ive managed to deal with some of my frustration when dealing with circumspect people who find no joy in this.
Like today, I have to admit although i'm waiting for a call I am not biting my nails wondering why she hasn't let me know of any helpful suggestions in her company that would further my educative needs. I mean, I am strongly aware of my own skillset but seemingly when you are waiting to start over again, you are having to wait for some female to actually get her front teeth in to speed up the details you find yourself treading on thin ice with your own benefit advisor.

Hello my name is Nicholas and I'm new to this site. I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in the year 1999. I need some advice in finding a new job. I've been a part-time dishwasher for a food service company for the past 7-8 years now and I need to get a new job. I'm going to be graduating from college with a degree in Geography next year. I was wondering if I should get a job related to my field or not? Please let me know. Thank you.

Hello again everybody. I have another question for you guys. Once I get a new job, do you guys have any advice for me on how to keep my job? Let me know. Thanks.

Avoid anything sales, marketing or customer service -
Narrow down job search to cubicle jobs where you can wear headphone all day and have little human interaction.
Try to go to a doctor that can perscribe valium or lorezapan for anti anxiety. It's the only way I landed my last two jobs. I'm dead serious. I either talk way too much or much too little trying to pass off as NT in an interview. The drugs do wonders.

Small tip, but if you have to make calls, smile while speaking. It changes your tone somehow and makes you sound friendlier or something automatically.

Another tip from my mum 16 years ago when I moaned about being bored, "That's why it's called work, not play". She was old school. Expect to find large chunks of it boring and annoying. Work is there to pay for play and independent living.

Another tip for people who hate long meetings and daydream. Read the agenda before going in, list what you need doing and make sure you have asked for it, the work has been given to someone and you have a named person for follow up after the meeting. In the same vein, ask the minute taker to confirm any actions you have been assigned from the meeting and associated deadlines (can do this straight after the meeting) in case you missed anything.
Also, mute your mic when you're not speaking, when my attention goes I hum tunes (annoying for everyone else), code and message (noisy keyboard tapping also annoying).

If you have a webcam for video meetings and skype do not place it over your monitor, place it to the side to provide a semi profile view of your face which you can turn in to when it is your turn to speak. Full on stare into the monitor/webcam when not speaking is not good.

Julieme... you said your interviewing has some introvert/extrovert orientation thing going on. You leaving a few things out. Like ambivert. That's me. Mr. Ambivert. It's the guy inbetween both of those extremes. The one that is better off than both of them. There are also things like neurotic, and shy introverts too etc, etc.

There are some nice tips on here. Thank you people. I think I need to get a job, and I need all the help I can get. It is not finding a job for me that is the problem, it's the people. Everyone around me wants me to do my own thing, its just overwelming, until I get a fistful of money. The workforce center does an excellent job of helping people create a resume, it is a requirement for unemployment. There are good classes you can take too. As far as I know, they are public and free. One guy told me that when you make an online resume, you need to put a ton of key words all over you resume in white. That way when it prints, or when someone looks at it they don't see it, but a program will. Apparently, most people get found in a job search by employers, by simply using key words. I don't really know what kind of help I'm looking for on here, I guess I just need an appiffony??? You see, with my knowlege, and experience, I can pritty much get a job anywhere I look. Being an ASE certified advanced master automotive technician, master engine machinist, undercar specialist, and electrical bosch certified, all sounds the tops on a resume, but the job has me deal with a lot of backstabbing commission employed mechanics. Most of wich are hacks!! Than you have the habitual, and pathological liars in the service department, who ulimatley sell the jobs you have to deal with. And when you have a problem with these people, and talk to the boss, its is usually an owner, who only cares about the bottom line, and staying "BLACK"! !! Lol... or one of those pathological liars who has moved up the ladder to a store managing Hitler!! People I know don't want anyone else to work on there cars, but me, and I'm afraid if I stay working for people, I may wind up in the funney farm. Soo, I'm pritty sure my only options are to do my own thing, or go work in a different profession. Being as stubborn as I am, I cannot see myself leaving the industry, and would not be this good if I gave up on it. Every interview I get, these people want to hire me on the spot. The storyline is always the same. I do oil changes. Find something wrong with the car while it's there. Have a pathological liar sell something on it, and make commission. They all tell me I'm going to make 50k a year, and have absolutely no actual work, and nothing to back that statement up. Pritty gay industry!! ! I just want to fix cars, and bikes, and boats, and sleds, and scooters, and big tractors, and airplanes, and big huge mud trucks, and dirtbikes, and atv's, and a pantera detomaso, and a turbocharged honda civic, and a muscle car, and....... ooh...... there I go again....