What job / career do you do for a living?

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from the 1980s until about 2006, I was a civil servant, working mainly in the operating room of a military training hospital.

I am a developer now but I started out as a research assistant in the same lab that I learnt to code. After that I have been in development and god I love it! I thought I was never going to find something I liked. I have also been a part time yoga teacher in the past. I am planning on taking up yoga teaching full time for the next 2 years or so and give coding a break. Or probably code part time if I can find a part time development job.

I get disability pay, but also work part time as a driver for handicapped people.

I’m in construction management. I’m a Superintendent on commercial construction sites.

I deal with architects and direct trade foreman. It’s pretty easy working with blue prints and drawings. Nothing is in question everything on the print is word. And I don’t need to be friendly and bs small talk.

I'm a horticulturist. A fancy word for "professional gardener."

My main responsibility is to water and maintain the appearance of the flowerpots and perennial flowerbeds at a resort hotel and golf course. I am also responsible for trimming their trees and shrubs, designing and undertaking new plantings, pulling weeds, and occasionally mowing golf course greens. My avatar is a picture of one of the perennial flowerbeds I tend

I'm the only one who performs my job, so I usually work all by myself (yay!), and my bosses give me autonomy since they like how the flowers look, and they have other things they'd rather focus on like managing the day-to-day business needs of the hotel and the golf course.

I love my job, and I feel fortunate to have it. The only drawback is that it's not a year-round job. My "season" is typically from April to November, so I have 4 months a year where I'm unemployed. Fortunately, I qualify for unemployment benefits for much of that time. My employers do not know of my autism diagnosis, but they seem to know that there's something unique about how my mind works

^^ One day, a writer, probably Peter Drucker or Lawrence Peter, noticed some superb flower beds around an office, and made inquiries. The gardener loved his work, of course, but the company had a policy of promoting talented people. So, to avoid complications, he would "lose" a receipt from time to time, driving the beancounters nuts.

I teach. The predictability of the timetable along with the unpredictability of the pupils makes for a daily rollercoaster ride!

I work for a large IT company in a sales team and help to manage some big government accounts. I am office based helping to support our high flying sales people who are out on the road. I spend much of my time working on spreadsheets, complex quotes and legal contracts and paperwork.

Never had an idea of what I wanted to do as a career and just kind of fell into this year's ago. Done it in previous companies too.

75% of the time the job is fine, I am left alone, people know I am a quiet introverted type so don't bother me. My boss knows I have aspergers and has been helpful.

25% of the time I find the job difficult and too much, I get anxious and stressed. I find the sales environment and some of the sales people too much at times, especially approaching deadlines and quarter end etc. I find Mondays hard here, everyone is in, it's busy, people everywhere, the rest of the week is very quiet in the office.

Feeling like I have pretty much had enough of this job tbh, but no idea what to do next. The company are good though, they are caring, they even run a neuro diversity group. They are keep for people to move within the company rather than leave but I have no idea what else I could even do.

Engineering data analyst - they actually pay me to play around in spreadsheets all day, looking for patterns!

On my last performance review, though, my new manager said I was "too much of a perfectionist", like that's a *bad* thing somehow!

i've washed dishes, made pizza, sorted and packed millions of tortillas and pressed juice, among other things.

I'm not currently working. I was hoping to find a part time job or join an internship over the summer but the only one available involved game testing (which is good) and JUnit test case development (which is bad).

I'm (hopefully) moving into my second year in computer science very soon. Let's see how that goes.

I usually just write "student" under occupation.