The perfect degree for Aspies: Accounting

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It's a good field, as long as numbers don't overwhelm you. Too much information....

I think working at a quiet library can be awesome where it's the same routine everyday and you can surf the internet in between checking out books for people. But I think fiddling with stuff would also be fun, like being an electrical engineer perhaps.

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One of my first jobs was in accounting. Accounts receivable. All day, just tallying up checks received from the company venders. I used to go and cry in the bathroom several times a day because it was so mind-numbingly boring. And I love numbers and math, but accounting is uttely uncreative, soulless work for utterly uncreative, soulless people. I am neither uncreative nor soulless. Plus I HATE working in a bureaucracy.

Why would you think an Aspie is just a soulless cog?

Nay on the accounting here too. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone AS or otherwise. I just...CANNOT bring myself to further my career in this field by resuming my uni again. It's brain-atrophying more than mind-numbing IMO, tedious, torturous, boring.

Hi my name is Justin, i'm 25 and I was diagnosed with AS at 17 even though my mother knew there was something weird about me since I young. I'm in my second year of college doing basics and i've had some experience doing Accounting in high school. I liked it then and when I was in Financial Accounting in my first year of college it was actuatly fun to be able to figure out what accounts to use and joy oh joy when your trial balance balances perfectly. Now in my second year i'm having to do Accounting Information Systems and i'm finding it to be something that might turn me away from accounting. I might be afraid that it's only avaliable as an online class and i'm having alot of trouble learning just by reading. All my assignments are like questions you would only know if you read the chapter. I'm much more of a hands-on/visual in the class discussion and examples given type and I just cannot keep my mind concentrated when i'm reading this stuff. I've been told when I get into something I put my all into it and then when I get bored with it I move on to something else and repeat. I actuatly thought accounting was going to be it for me since it was kind-of easy for me. English is my worst subject as words do nothing but confuse me half the time. I enjoyed fixing up my car when I painted my own hood, fenders, and bumper on a car and installed the radiator and fixed some other stuff to make it my daily driver. I also enjoy when we buy a new computer, tv, or audio system to try and figure out how to hook it up and be able to use it and personalize it to perform any way I want, or to the best of my ablilities. I guess i'm just really good at putting things together.

But my problem is, I don't know whether to stick with it because I don't know if this part is the boring part or if AIS is something that's very important to know, and if I did change my career choice, I have no idea if my next career choice will allow me to stay in college for basics and benefit from it, or if what i'm doing now is pointless because something in automobiles or electronics doesn't require me to go to college for my basics but just to go to a technical college and just worry about getting that certification. I'm sorry for being so long, I like to try and get all details out there. Thank you.

I gotta say I am not even at a college math level, I have very little understanding of that entire subject....Not to mention I kind of hate anything that has to do with numbers. So I would hate accounting.

I don't know. I think I would be very bored in an accounting career and I am also very bad at math. Whenever ever someone brings up the myth that all people with AS or autism are natural math geniuses, I want to strangle them. Being bad at math has held me back from so much in life.

Sound boring to me.

If I were to go into a mathematical profession (and I did consider it at one time) it would have to be one that allows for a great deal of creative thinking. And we all know what sort of trouble "creative accounting" can cause.

I think these suggestions for Aspies should really be taken with a grain of salt. People who are diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome are so diverse. Personally I have poor social skills but I am very entrepreneurial. I know what people like and what motivates them to spend.

Accounting? But I'm useless with numbers! You clearly haven't thought this through!

Ok, I just ordered an accounting degree; it should arrive in 2-3 days. I really hope it's as good as this thread says it is!

I'm taking accounting. It's not for everyone. It all depends on what ones obsessions are. Mine are moving numbers around - which accounting is. For people who need to do something more abstract, there is the sciences. Others want to choose their interest - my late brother set his eyes on driving trucks or trains. My sister works in daycare.