29 Jul 2011, 6:22 pm
I like my job most days, because it's quiet and I can be left alone for the most part. I have had problems with attendance. It's on my records, but will get erased in a year. I'm nowhere near being terminated for it, though. This is the longest I've ever been successful at a job. But some days I just can't deal with it, so I call in. I talked with my manager last night, and I think I'm going to cut down my hours by 8 each week. I've just been getting too overwhelmed.
As a teenager, I worked a little bit at my grandparents' hardware store. I also mowed lawns and babysat. And for two years in the summer, I worked at a concession stand at a racetrack.
Do you have any special interests or skills and do you think that you can do something with them when it comes to work? Wallmart doesn't sound like an ideal place for someone with autism who is probaly very smart.
29 Jul 2011, 7:25 pm
My employment history is well... 
Really I have only had one real job:
High School: Fixed people's computers around town. (So glad I don't do that anymore!)
Summer of Freshman Year of College: Worked for my dad writing computer software for his business.
Sophomore Year: Computer lab babysitter (student job... about 8 hours a week... sometimes I had to put more paper in the printer) and grader for a data structures class (I graded while working at the lab so I felt like I was making $16 an hour at one job instead of $8 at two).
Sophomore Year Summer: Intern at Insurance Company. My primary job was printing off PDFs, travelling up an elevator and scanning them into another computer because the department I worked in didn't have write access to the drive where these PDFs needed to be and instead of getting that sorted out in IT they found a scanner to do copy and paste by hand!)
That internship has was the first and only real job I have had. Currently I have split my time between doing a small amount of computer programming work and carpentry/construction. I rather enjoy the carpentry stuff as I feel like I am making money and learning at the same time. Nail guns tend to startle me (though saws and power tools really don't) but its completely okay to wear earplugs around loud machines so its not too bad. Computer programming is great too (and can pay well) but finding clients is really difficult.
30 Jul 2011, 12:59 pm
Well, you did manage and that's very admirable.
Nice to meat someone else on this forum for whom English is not the first language.
Where are you from. A scandinavian country?
You don't have to answer my question if you don't want to ofcourse. We are all anonymous her.
See left.
And you?
30 Jul 2011, 1:38 pm
Well, you did manage and that's very admirable.
Nice to meat someone else on this forum for whom English is not the first language.
Where are you from. A scandinavian country?
You don't have to answer my question if you don't want to ofcourse. We are all anonymous her.
See left.
And you?Ah, your from Hungary. I should have looked at your profile before asking a stupid question.
I'm from The Netherlands.
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