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I went to see two people for a week and they know I am autistic and they live on a calm spanish island and they invited me just to relax as there is barely noise and people and they work with relaxation techniques to release stress from the body.
Anyway they said on a moment that they had to prepare capsules with herbal nutritents for private use and asked if I wanted to help.
So there was a little prepared plastic plate to put in 50 empty halves of capsules and a plastic plate on top where you spread the herb with a spoon and put it into the empty capsules-halves.
Then there was another plastic device fitting into the 50 halves to press the herb into the capsules.
This procedure had to be repeated 3 times over (spreading with the spoon and pressing with the divice) and then the second empty half of the capsule, which was smaller in size, had to be put on top of it.
Then one took the capsules one by one out of the plastic device and press it together and put it into a box, as it is finished.
I really liked doing it and filled about a thousand capsules in about three hours.
This is work that I really like to do, as it is very repetitive and involves counting and is clear to execute and I was completely on my own doing it.
I wish I could do it more and I would like to do it every day, but now I am back home.

That reminds me of the tasks I am often given at my volunteer job. I work in the warehouse of a thrift store, preparing toys that are to be sold. I do various odd jobs, but my favorite is when I get to sort small toys into plastic bags, staple them shut with thick strips of paper, hole punch them, and stick a price tag on them. I find the repetitiveness and clear steps to be enjoyable.

I like repetitive too.

Tick, Tock, No O'Clock...
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Tick, Tock, No O'Clock...
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Tick, Tock, No O'Clock...
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Older thread, but I am Op,
went back there to the people I know who live on the spanish island (they are therapists as well) and it was again great:
A childhood special interest of mine is passenger planes and the man there is a former pilot and was working for many years as the head of the european flight security/aerial surveillance,
so We shared the special interest, I felt back so connected to it,
and he has a radio where he can receive the tower of the nearest airport,
and depending on which channel he did put on (you have a channel for example for "lining the planes in to land" in a distance of about 9 miles, channel for landing, channel for taking off, channel for cruising traffic etc.) I could hear the talk between the tower and the pilots!
And then he had a computer program with the rader of the air surveillance and you can watch the planes taking off in Spain and landing hours later in the US for example and all information about the flight route, the plane etc.!
And I heard the conversation between tower and pilot, but only of the nearest airport, which is also around a 9 miles away, BUT: all the planes taking off were flying over the property, so I had visual contact, it was so great!
This time I did not work with the capsules which I love, but there was no material, but I did other little jobs, and:
There are many wild cats on the property and the cats let me pet them and eat out of my hand, though they usually do not tolerate being petted by humans and eat out of their hand, but they did let me pet them again, it's a pack of 10 cats and I have good contact to them.

That sounds lovely. I would really enjoy that as well.

I like embroidering, one stitch after another, one stich after another, one stich after another.

I had to look up what embroidering means, but now I know, but I never did it, but I think it is great when you can do it.

Older thread, but I am the OP and write to continue.
I am back to this spanish island, the people have invited me back.
It is very quiet and peaceful here, most sounds are from animals (chicken, sheep, cats, pauws) and planes flying over the property, but rather high ( but I love plane-spotting!) and the rippling of the water in a fountain.
I prefer to be here much more than living in the city.
The wild cats recognized my voice when I arrived and 5 of them immediately came to me.
I feed them again.
Sometimes we lie together on the floor in a "pack" and just lie there.
Here is a swimming pool in the garden, which is nice because the weather is really hot, but I like hot weather.
In the pool I swim a couple times a day and I safe the tiny little animals, which have fallen into the water like ants and wasps and tiny baby-wasps (which have a kind of golden colour).
Again there is no material to fill the capsules which I loved doing a lot, but I do work a bit in the huge garden, removing dry blossoms from the plants, which I also like to do.

Oh man do I love repetitive work! I see all these videos of what I believe are NTs that complain towards they're Rinse. Wash. Repeat job. I'd love to work somewhere like a warehouse just putting things in place. I used to be a Student Aid in my school office and my favorite thing to do was to organize the tardy/absence excuse notes by student's surname.

Huh, I always sorta marvel at this one, the idea of anyone actually liking something THAT repetitive. Yet it seems like this is very common on these forums.

Cant stand it myself. I dont work anymore and havent in some number of years, but when I DID work, it was usually extremely repetitive and mindless, and as far as I was concerned, it was torment. 4 hour shifts felt like 4 days. It's amazing that I never either fell asleep standing up, or simply went insane. The only job I DID have that wasnt super repetitive was at the Toys'R'Us, and I think that had more to do with the management style than anything else. I worked in the gaming/electronic section and was usually the only one there, and most of the managers tended to handle specific areas of the store, which... never seemed to include that one. So I was typically left to do things my way, and direct orders from managers tended to sound something like "Okay, here's this thing, it was over in this aisle here where it wasnt supposed to be, I dont know what it is, take it and do... something. Whatever it is you do with it." Generally I figured stuff out on my own, which was at least somewhat interesting, though the job certainly had it's "stand there and do nothing" times.

And that worked out fine until it ended, better than any job I'd had up to that point except maybe the one at the bank (ran huge machines that went insane and did crazy things every 5 minutes or so). All of the other jobs... I lost them because I just couldnt handle the repetition, and would space out and make mistakes.

So, I'm curious, how does this end up working for you all? Not just in an employment setting, but overall. And what benefit do you feel it provides? I seriously dont really understand it at all currently.

I'm glad you're happy, Eloa!

Yes, every time I am very happy here.

Am back home and already miss it.
If I ever had the chance to move there with my cats I would do it immediately.
I would like to do simple repetitive garden work for people (like sweeping the properties).
(Or picking fruit and almonds from the trees).
Beside repetitive work I also like doing painting (I did illustrations for a book end of last year, it got published).
In creativity I am repetitive as well, but do also expand, though slowly.
For my case of autism, the way I am and perceive things, it is ideal living and happiness for me.
I love the tranquility, the climate and the nature and all the colours and sounds of nature there.
The people I know there are really nice and meaningful to me.
They accept me for who I am, no masking, but I am not skilled at it anyway, masking to me means withdrawing completely because I have no idea how to be different from how and who I am.