Being broke sucks.

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Anyone else sick of being broke? I'm broke and it blows.

I hate being broke too but honestly we are never broke. We just have limits. I learned being broke meant you can't pay all your bills because you don't have the money. If you have very little money left and you have paid all your bills, you are not broke. Technically you are but know what I mean? So I don't really complain. I do when we get low in our bank account so I know we must save. No fun stuff and if I know we have other bills coming before the next paycheck, I get so crazy over it and anxiety forms. I get so afraid of being broke and surprises, I am always wanting to save and keep saving and not do anything fun that costs money, same as getting stuff that is fun stuff than a need. I always want to be prepared for money surprises.

I can join the broke club

Yeah....that's why I'm constantly buying used auto parts to resell.

Become a teacher. I believe that most aspie should become teacher if they cannot have jobs in other fields. Teaching, I believe, is a profession which is aspie friendly. Although, teaching kinder garten kids can be difficult for aspies but primary, secondary or higher would be fine. Teaching jobs are not lucrative but it is a respectable and does not require one's to understand innuendos and social ranks of other which is the case in a normal office jobs.

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fudo too. :/ waiting for tuesday to get paid though

Not broke.

1. Find the one thing that you do better than most people.
2. Don't let someone else decide what to pay you.
3. Think outside the box - there are other ways to get ahead besides getting a promotion/raise.

I am an Aspie with no education and no family - if I can do it, anyone can...

Gee, that easy. Why didn't I think of that. <sarcasm>
Also, just because you can do it doesn't mean everyone can.

Can you go into more detail, Grisha? How did you manage to figure out each step? Can you give examples?

Basically, can you provide us a generalized tutorial that would probably cost upwards to $300 on a business coaching site?

Yeah i've always wondered what Grisha does.

Actually I sort of stumbled into it all, but in retrospect the key was applying the principals outlined in my post.

Here's the short version:

I got a job as a telemarketer at a pharmaceutical company many thousands of years ago. I worked it pretty successfully and was offered a job in the marketing department. They put me to work in a room filled with 100's of phone-book sized books containing nothing but pharmaceutical prescription data and asked me to analyze it - a perfect job for an Aspie and I got really good at it.

I figured out how tweak products to make them sell more, I could predict what they would sell in the future, I could accurately value acquisition/pipeline candidates, etc etc.

Turns out this was also a very valuable skill in predicting the future value of pharmaceutical stocks, so I got recruited into a local broker-dealer as a sell-side analyst. I was very good at this too, I got promoted to senior analyst two years later and was a finalist for the Wall Street Journal's "Best on the Street" award my rookie year, and found myself regularly quoted in the business press and developed a fat list of high-level industry contacts. The brokers on the floor called me "Rain Man", which I was a little offended by but I think it kind of made me seem like a sort of prodigy.

(BTW if you doubt any of this, Google "greg gust analyst", and you'll see my work)

I was still unsatisfied with having to depend on others to decide how much to pay me, so I started developing concepts for new drugs and putting some IP (patents/trademarks) around them and then shopping them to the contacts that I developed in my Wall Street days.

I signed my first deal in November and another one shortly thereafter and I've got more on the way. Basically I own 8% of the drug I developed and someone else does all the work, giving me tons of time to do the things I actually enjoy doing.

All this started with just some dorky Aspie guy and a bunch of numbers, the rest happened by learning to exploit this skill to maximum advantage.

If I had just fallen into the get a raise/promotion...get another raise/promotion trap, I'd
still be stuck in a cubicle complaining about never getting the raise/promotion I deserved.

@Wefunction - that will be $300 please...

What about my post ? Seriously, what do you all think about teaching prospect?

I think it's a great idea - academia has probably the most Aspies there, second only to IT.

If I was a better student, that's where I probably would have ended up.

If you find your niche, you can.

I found myself a single mom, with no education. I was starting my college education, but also needed income. I started with some things I was good at (basic web design & graphic design).

Working in graphic design (no degree, just self-taught Adobe knowledge), introduced me to photography as a business. I already loved photography as a hobby. I got a "mentor" and learned the art better. I took a few courses as college electives (but much of this could have been learned from books and practice).

In the mean time, I continued my college education. Just began grad school. Upon doing my taxes a couple weeks ago, I realized I made more way doing wedding photography part time then I would using my grad degree. This doesn't include portraits & design work I do.

While I am happy to have the chance to get an education, I didn't need it. This is my last semester. I'm leaving grad school. Everything I did, I did from practice, determination, and skill.

It's a great career because I don't have to be overly social. It's flexible. I love what I do and my clients can pick that up.

That's perfect.

I am firmly convinced that this sort of niche exists for everyone, and ideally it should coincide with a special interest - but you must be creative about how you monetize it in order to get maximum value.

I'm heading in a similar direction with music (singing). Not quite at that stage yet, but slowly increasing my skill and income.