As an aspie what do you do for a living?

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Professional student, hoping if I hang around long enough they'll decide to pay me to teach something. Used to work in first contact tech support (I can "power cycle" with the best of them) and as a counselor at a group home for teens

Im in construction and building work.

sales admin at International telecom manufacturer. I love the work and the pay is good, but I'm always fired in the end when things start adding up and they conclude something about me is weird. It can take a few months or a few years.

I'm aspiring writer, and soon I'll be going to college to become an English teacher.

I'm a translator.

I have exhibited talent for language and related topics since I was very little, so I guess this was the logical outcome.

I have tried other jobs as well, but they were either extremely boring (so I didn't feel motivated at all) or extremely stressful (so at some point I started feeling physically sick).

I am happy with what I'm doing right now


My secret hope is to become a writer, though.

i beat my heart (i do not know how) and i breathe and eat and drink.
that is all.

I currently work in IT, but my job performance is greatly affected by my condition. The depression and social anxiety make it unbearable some days. I've been coming to a realization that I will need to become involved in something that holds my interests while also allowing me to feel comfortable.

If I take my adderall, my performance is greatly increased, but the efficacy of the medication varies depending on how my body absorbs it on the day I take it, and sometimes it barely has any effect on me. So, when it works, it's awesome, and I feel like I can do anything. Unfortunately, the other side effects of it are irritability, which causes fights between my girlfriend and I; and it isn't helping my testosterone deficiency problem (very low testosterone; investigated the crap out of this health issue). So, I've had to taper off of my Adderall and am now in my 'normal' depressive state. For some reason, stimulants make me very excited, talkative, happier, and much more productive. Coffee doesn't seem to work anywhere near as well

I find I work best alone because, when in groups, I am usually singled out and constantly hassled. It's ridiculous. Thankfully, I live with my parents, and can fall back on them if things don't work out; but, I am trying to go on as if I did not have that luxury, because, whether or not I like it, or want to admit it, I will need to be independent in order to survive.

I'm 26, and just to clear up something, there is a LOT of politics within my office. I feel agitated most of the time being in this environment. Even now, I should be working, but just do not have the motivation, and feel extremely uncomfortable. It doesn't help that I also have hypothyroidism, and am always freezing in this office, as well.

Simply put, it's literally a miracle I even have this job and have not been fired, yet.

I find that when I create something from the ground up, I am at my happiest. I have an unexplored artistic side that I've only begun to explore, and wish I had discovered it when I was younger. I guess it's good that I have a good background in all areas of IT (programming, hardware, networking, databases, etc.), but I find that I only really appreciate these skills in a broad context. Where I am right now, I am expected to do the same things day in and day out (checklists, very, very dry, and mundane activities).

I don't want to seem ungrateful, though. I know there are a lot of people who are struggling right now with work, but I can't help being this way as it's how I've always been. It wasn't until my last year of college where I experimented with Marijuana for a year where I noticed significant benefits; though, I did have to stop due to paranoia and anxiety issues from smoking that plant. Though I did recently read that there are different types that affect anxiety-ridden people differently. Guess I was smoking some bad stuff near the end, lol.

Anyways, I'm gradually working towards creating my own home office because I am expecting to get fired, probably by the time the first year of this job is up. Once I get laid off, I am hoping to collect unemployment for a bit and try to carry out some of my work from home ideas that I know can work, if I only had the time...

For anyone not working right now, I strongly suggest developing some programming/web skills. You'd be surprised how easy it is to get into when you develop a learning technique that works for you. For me, I like to break things down to the lowest level in order to understand concepts much, MUCH easier. From that (and only two years since I graduated), I have surpassed most of my former colleagues from school.

I fix computers and am training for firefighter/ems jobs.

I'm a line cook at a chain restaurant. I've worked in the hospitality sector all of my life.

I work as a programmer, which is also my special interest ( besides music )

i am currently working as a instructional assistant substitute which works for the time being for me, different sites, i have to drive up to 25 miles to some sites,, im not in the same classroom or site long enough to have to be involved in the social scene.

I worked as a paraprofessional for several handicapped high schoolers for 15 years, worked up to be a teacher but being the teacher of record required more social and organizational skills then i am able to accomplish so its back as a TA.. this is working,, but im planning to go back to school in a year for computers,, I have two electronicis certificates from pre computer days and I was flatly told when i was nonelected to go into computers, guess someone saw through my attempts to be normal... sigh.

I was a good assistant because the class was structured and I had a routine but when i had to come up with my own routines it didnt work,, interesting.

I've never had a job, and I can't imagine having one as I am right now. I receive some money from social services for being disabled.
My mother has a job so we get money from that + what I receive.

I work at a thrift store. My main job is to keep the books organized and to bring newly donated ones out.

I'm not working at the moment as I had my own small business this year that failed, and now I'm recovering from surgery. I'll be looking for work after the beginning of the year. I'm guessing that this little town in SE Texas won't have much to offer.

My working career started in the grocery business, being a grocery cashier and then working several years in convenience stores. When I first started I was terrified of talking directly to people in that environment. But I found that as long as I had a counter between me and them, I was OK. During this time, I was working on my college degree in fine arts, and then moved to the big city (Houston) to start a new life as a grownup -- trust me, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

I then worked for 22 years in several industries as a corporate library assistant and/or an information researcher. This DEFINITELY fits with my special interests in that I love books and I'm pathologically nosy -- I love trivia and facts, so much so that my nickname in the family is Cliff, after that know-it-all mailman on the TV show Cheers. So digging in books for information is right up my alley, although in reality I spent MUCH more time on the Internet than I did in books. Five of these years were spent in real estate title research, which is another good thing because it involved reading wills and deeds looking for owners of abandoned properties, and reading maps -- another thing I love. I lost my last job in this area supposedly because of an error that causes some problems for the company, but I suspect there was more to it than that. I had just confided to my boss that I was suffering from panic disorder (I just discovered the ASD issues recently, so that didn't figure into it). The same day I got the ax, another guy got fired who just happened to be out of work a lot with doctors appointments for his crooked leg.

I've been back in the c-store arena for a couple of years now, due of lack of choice of anything else. My mother believes that I should consider filing for disability for my panic disorder -- I'm on venlafaxine, but it doesn't completely stop the panic attacks. When we discovered the ASD, she thinks that would be even more ammo to get me on it. I've been fired from quite a few jobs over the years, and Mom believes that the ASD might have contributed to it. I tend to do my own thing on a job, and won't perform a task I'm told to by my boss if I think it's stupid or pointless. I'm late quite a bit, spend too much time on the phone and procrastinate on my duties. I'm not a "team player" -- I don't participate in group outings or go to Christmas parties or do anything else that involved me being with those people any longer than 40 hours a week. I also make mistakes because -- and I got this from my ASD research -- I don't follow verbal instructions well. I can't count how many times I've been told how to do something or given a task, only to get in trouble because I either misunderstood the instructions or completely forgot I was supposed to perform the task. I've learned to write things down, but it always seems that the stuff I don't think is important enough to write down, or that I thihk I'll remember turns out to be the most important.

I currently spend most of my waking hours in a wafer fab (clean room environment), installing multimillion dollar equipment. I have been surprised at how little of my Electrical Engineering degree or experience with electronics actually applies so far to what I do. I am also prevented (by law, regarding electrical safety) from doing a lot of things that I am perfectly capable of doing myself. The most difficult part is working around other peoples' schedules and being in constant communication with them, but I do enjoy the parts where I'm actually working with my hands.