For people who have jobs

Post Reply New Topic

My first and current -- I've been a fulltime assistant who sometimes do odd jobs for more than a year now. Sometimes I'm the acting secretary (haha yes ) or the data encoder because I'm their fastest typist.

So far, I'm doing fine...
The only thing that has been seriously interfering with my performance is my short term memory, and the lack of hearing filter especially whenever I talk to a phone. The rest is just inexperience.

Gained Number Post Count (1).
Lose Time (n).

Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

I just started about a month ago working as a baker in a restaurant. I'm not very good at my job yet, but I'm still learning and adapting. I'm trying my best to learn everything as quickly as possible. I work very hard, I know. For me, I think my Autism makes it harder for me to adapt to new situations at work and it takes me a little longer than most to learn new things, which I think frustrates my manager. Before that, I worked as a cashier at a craft store and at Kmart.

I am told by others that I am quite good at my job (teaching chemistry at the college level). Part of it has to do with the way I can relate to college students at their level when needed, which is related to my lagging maturity level being around that age range. Older chemistry professors have a hard time understanding them that way as they often forget how much there is to learn. In that aspect, being who I am can be a blessing in disguise. The office politics of higher education is one thing that I can definitely do without though.

I am a botanist and program manager at one of the largest and most visited national parks in the US.

I am really good at the botany part, but I struggle with the bureaucracy and politics. I am what they call "inappropriately honest", and it hurts me especially with insecure people. I say the wrong thing (but honest/true) and they think I am attacking them, then it is weeks/months of conflict.

Or someone uses me in their political plan and I am totally unaware of how I am being used until later.

I am moving to a smaller park with less politics.

i never understood or was interested in anything about chemistry. now i have to study it as part of my major. i was made to take it twice and i still can't recall anything, not even the definition of a mol.

i like being outside too, but i'm also hearing the call of the airport. i like airports. i'd also love to learn how to fly something.

of course, that might change in about .2 seconds because i've never been able to stick to anything.

I'm an intern at a biotech company, where I rebrand ELISA kits, update product data sheets, file invoices, and occasionally reconstitute antibodies (I've only been there for 2 months). Thankfully, there haven't been many issues for me since it's a small space and I'm given clear instructions on what to do each day. It's quite very from my last job as a product demonstrator in that I don't have to convince anyone that buying a product will improve their brain functioning, etc.

^ so you don't get to pet octopuses in wonderland?

I worked in an emergency room for quite some time before moving to a clinic (I desperately miss my ER folks but I needed better hours). My lack of body language was a huge benefit for patient interactions, especially the ones that were more aggressive. Plus the knack for attention to detail and that I was happy to focus on one task at a time made me a natural fit. Thankfully those same skills work well in the clinic, I just have to remember to smile more often.

i cant think of any other molluscs i'd prefer to pet than an octopus.