DoniiMann wrote:
What they had in common was the noise and the fast pace. These are traditionally considered bad for ASD, but whereas I failed in café, I succeeded in the factory. And it came down to the fundamental difference between these two jobs.
Cafés are chaotic. Any order combination, to be served in any table combination appropriate for the time, for any number of customers, with any type of personalities.
By contrast, once I learned my factory duties and built up into a flow state, disruptions were rare. Everything was well ordered.
I work in a hospital operating a particular type of life support equipment. I like it because I only work as a form of recreation because I believe in what I do. The surgeons and intensivists and surrounding staff take the attention of the patients and their families. My job is very technical, I deal with facts and figures and know the equipment I operate inside and out. Aside from polite greetings to my colleagues when I arrive everyone leaves me alone to do my stuff. I'm very happy being the wallflower, I love coming in when I'm needed and quietly going home after the job is done. It's a great job for a 'sperg because emotions and "soft skills" don't come into it.