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Surfman
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31 Jan 2011, 12:40 am

Maintenance electrician

Jok
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31 Jan 2011, 3:31 am

Work for Apple retail at the moment, but it's only temporary.

I was in Education (lecturer/manager) for about 12 years. I want to go back.

lucyfm
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31 Jan 2011, 4:49 pm

I work in Medical Physics, doing the physics behind medical imaging. This is my third degree though, I never finished the first two (French, Spanish & Italian and Quantity Surveying respectively). I like this one the most, apart from being based in a busy hospital.

Frieslander
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31 Jan 2011, 9:53 pm

I guess I wonder what to do since I tend to have thought stops.... but maybe those will go away with meds. Hard to communicate with thouhgt stops, and to work in biology teaching.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:00 pm

I am a substitute teacher, though I am a certified social studies teacher. Although I thoroughly enjoy my job, I am rather selective of the schools I will work in. I could never work in an inner city school due to my Aspie traits.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:50 pm

I am a teacher right now, but more like an entertainer for bored Japanese folk

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31 Jan 2011, 11:55 pm

Retired here since age 43 (after working 70-80 hour weeks for 20 years under some truly horrific conditions). I spent my better years working in the space program as chief engineer of two large government spacetrack radars where the mainframe computers that drove the radars were my specialty. Now I spend my time writing software when I can tear myself away from my other obsessions and collecting and analyzing information on anything of interest to me (my primary obsession and interest since I was a child... eg how about a statistical analysis on the arrival time of the postman each day so I don't go walking to the mailbox only to find it empty... I have actually considered doing that one).

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01 Feb 2011, 12:06 am

sinsboldly wrote:

I have cooked for a living, line cook, sauté chef, baker (this was wonderful, I just put on 'books on tape' on my walkman and cruised through cakes and pies and billions of cookies) before I got my degree.

After my degree (in Sociology) I was a Microsoft technical engineer and worked for a computer manufacturer as a telephone computer technician, guiding people in hardware and software fixes and modifications. After my job pool faded away to India I now do customer service work for not for profit health insurance company explaining Medicare to elderly people and their families.

I find that talking on the phone doing research for folks to be perfect for me, as I don't have to interpret facial or body language clues, and the actual words are important. I just consider myself to have a 7.75 hour a day expert call-in radio show as I educate and help people one call at a time.

Did I think to myself as a child that THIS was what I wanted to do when I grew up? Absolutely not! Am I grateful that I have something to support myself so I don't live in a tent in the woods ? Absolutely!

not much help for 60 year old Aspies in the world. Remember those who went before you and be grateful for being born into a world where your difference is recognized and assisted.

Are you timed?
How did you get that job?

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01 Feb 2011, 12:37 am

I work in administration, but in the future I would like to get into a project support role in community development/engagement.

vetwithAS
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01 Feb 2011, 12:39 am

I work for an armored truck company as a tech servicing banks, ATMs, and retail locations. Prior to that I served in the Army for 4 years as a tanker.

antonblock
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01 Feb 2011, 7:06 am

i am in academics, finishing My PhD in computer science, but still i am not sure if this is the right research field for me.

Psychology and Neuro science would also interest me, but i know nearly nothing about that, but i think that involves a lot of doing experiments and so on, and i am more a theory guy. Maybe oneone can tell me?

@woodpecker, labpet: What are your fields, and are you more into theory or not?

best wishes,
anton

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01 Feb 2011, 9:14 am

antonblock wrote:

Good question as there are misnomers about neuroscience. It's not psychology. Firstly I am an analytical chemist (and very analytical) with a strong maths background. Neuroscience is essentially the study of the nervous system (CNS); specifically, I am a spinal cord researcher (PhD student). I spend approximately 1/3 of my time in lab, mostly reacting interneurones w/ antibody, etc. Even slicing tissue w/ vibratome. There is a surgery component too and we use research animals. I spend plenty of time doing quantitative confocal microscopy and analysing. Importantly, I reconstruct neurones, looking for contacts, etc. I write extensively as well - literature review. I have background interest in synaptic plasticity and even neurophysics. Hope that helps.

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01 Feb 2011, 9:43 am

@labpet: "analytical chemistry", ok, I have never heard of that... so do you consider yourself a theory guy or rather a experimental, practical guy?

In a more general perspective my question is: Are there also mostly "theory guys" in psychology or in neuroscience?

thanks
anton

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01 Feb 2011, 9:58 am

antonblock wrote:

I'll try to answer....but I'm a girl

As far as theory vs. practical - almost moot in my field. I guess the answer is 'yes.' Now, psychology is another thing entirely (and not neuroscience). Those who are in psychology share our imaging techniques (e.g. psychiatry). Importantly, neuroscience is not neurology! We are not clinical but research - big difference and different focus entirely.

Just for instance, if you'd like to look at a "common" (& well done) journal I'd be reading fairly recently, here's a link. Goulding is an example of a neuroscientist.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847453/

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01 Feb 2011, 10:05 am

I am, in a way, the living portrait of a basement-dweller. I live with the family, the parents and siblings, and while it isn't great, it works for now as I don't have the means to get a place of my own (I dream of that). While I receive supplemented income, I am working toward writing fiction. I am a writer, and I will support myself, eventually, with writing. Since I am teaching myself German, Japanese, French, and Italian, once I'm fluent enough, I may take jobs related to language to support my writing. I have a clear focus on what I want.

antonblock
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01 Feb 2011, 10:40 am

@labplet: hehe , oh sorry, i didn't know! ;-)

in math or computer science you usually divide into theory and practical work. Only later i found out that theory is really cool, and i am also enough skilled for it.

Sometimes i wonder if it is really a great goal to become a good mathematician, i mean, if you are lucky you find some nice formulas, or some great algorithms. But is this really important? Lots of research is not really important. Assume you solved one of the big math problems, NP versus P, and so on, ok and when you solved it? what next?

Sometimes i wonder if i am in the right academic field. Neuroscience, psychology, neurology all sound so important in this times. The human brain, its the only big secret left. Here the new advanced are made. It seems to me so. But some things keeps me from studying this more: First, i don't have any clue of it. Secondly, i don't know if I really would enjoy studying that and doing research in there. Doing experiments, taking aninmals, maybe i am more a paper&pencil guy. Maybe i don't know. Its not easy to decide what is a good academic field for me.

Thanks for any hints and expereinces in other academic fields,
anton

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