Anyone else never worked full-time before?

[Fino]

I can't handle the repetition of working a single full-time job, so I work three part-time jobs that add up to over 40 hours, so each day of the week is different.

 

[Ella Spell]

I certainly couldn't work now, or since my burnout. I've been on disability for years because of my stroke and trauma. I can't even leave the house for leisure most days because my anxiety is so bad.

When I was working full-time my adrenal system actually crashed and I nearly died. They said I had literally run out of adrenaline from stress and I couldn't make any more. After a long spell in hospital I ended up working another thirteen years full-time because I wasn't eligible for LTD yet. Then I had my first stroke. After leaving work I had a second one.

Sometimes I wonder how I survived working so hard. In many respects I guess I didn't.

 

[Slime_Punk]

Or another theory is society doesn't cater to autists so the workplace is adverse to autism.

I definitely think this is it, if I had to guess. Having to work with predominantly NTs, communication issues, and more. But, I could see anyone suffering from health conditions (I do as well) having yet another bump in the road toward employment.

Even just driving a car or going on the subway can be really challenging for certain people on the spectrum, and that's long before even showing up to do the job itself! I think the whole world is adverse to autism, unfortunately.

 

[Outdated]

I'm so glad I don't have to work any more, and the pension system is pretty good here. I have government subsidised housing too and the different government departments all sort that out between themselves without me having to worry about it.

After rent is paid I get $400 a week play money, that's a lot for someone that hardly ever leaves the house. There's plenty of other people that struggle to survive on the pension, I'm managing to save $10K a year.

 

[Luca]

I have been working full time basically since I was in high school. I still work full time.

I have had lots of different jobs, and they all burned me out and gave me anxiety. For a while as a young adult, I was unemployed and got some benefits because my anxiety and difficulty following instructions kept getting me fired.

I'm self-employed now, and I make decent income but I have to work full time to sustain it. So I do frequently feel overworked and exhausted.
But at least now I'm working with animals instead of having to work in customer service, management, or sales. Those types of jobs made me hate my life and I lived in constant fear of the customers.

 

[Storm Hess]

I've worked many different positions for most of my life. I've been fired from most because of my inability to socialise and interact with other employees, give my honest opinion to inefficient middle management suck-ups and trying to change the working paradigm for a more efficient one. I was fired almost every time because wanting to do my job to the best of my ability and make the company better.

I've since been trying to earn money on my own, nothing big as of yet. I will keep trying.

 

[kenaij]

I do work fulltime. For my job that is 36,5 Hours a week. But in actuality I work 39,5 because I work at a school and I dont work during the breaks. The frequent breaks makes me able to work fulltime. Without them, I would burn out for Sure.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

The worst for me was being in a supervisory position. The stresses of representing management as well as my direct reports was too much. I did my best work testing and optimizing processes, working with engineering, or designing and building radionuclide processing systems. That kept me interested in working

 

[Kisa the tea]

When I attempted to work I only worked 8 hours a week (two 4 hour days). I eventually realized I couldn't do it it well and got disability assistance. I have no idea how people work 40+ hour weeks. I had a breakdown with 8 hours.

 

[tazz]

The stresses of representing management as well as my direct reports was too much

Yeah I've always thought that middle management role is so difficult for that reason. Caught right in the middle.

 

[Misty Avich]

It depresses me that other autistic people have worked full-time in their lives and although I'm high-functioning (PPD-NOS) I've only ever worked part-time.
I'm aware that not everyone has the choice to work part-time but I'm talking about people who could.
If push came to shove I'd obviously have to work full-time and probably could do it but I don't think I could do like 70 hours a week like some people. It's not the social aspect of working though, as even if I were working in a room on my own all day it still would be mentally draining because of the repetitiveness and monotony of routine and not being able to juggle all of life's demands. I don't know. Maybe I'm just useless lol.

 

[Outdated]

It depresses me that other autistic people have worked full-time in their lives and although I'm high-functioning (PPD-NOS) I've only ever worked part-time.

For most of us it's what I call The Lesson Of Limited Choice.

We didn't get any support in the world, not even from our families. By age 18 we were expected to be living in our own homes and supporting ourselves, someone staying home with their parents until age 20 was seen as weak.

It was a different world back then, harsher but in some ways better.

 

[Misty Avich]

For most of us it's what I call The Lesson Of Limited Choice.

We didn't get any support in the world, not even from our families. By age 18 we were expected to be living in our own homes and supporting ourselves, someone staying home with their parents until age 20 was seen as weak.

It was a different world back then, harsher but in some ways better.

I suppose.
Well when I left school I went to college but had a hard time with ADHD-related issues (God knows why I wasn't diagnosed there and then), I couldn't focus on any studying and I didn't really have any interests or know what I wanted to do, so I dropped out but didn't have a job. I kept applying for jobs but kept getting turned down. I done voluntary work but got a bit too comfortable and suddenly felt anxious of the working world.
I finally got my first paid job (at age 22), which was part-time. I guess I got so used to being unemployed before that that I think suddenly going into full-time work might have been a shock for me.
I guess if I'd got a full-time job straight away after leaving school or college I might have just settled into it without overthinking it getting anxious.
I done like 30 hours a week at school from age 5-17 and I just accepted that as life and never got anxious about the length of the day, so maybe the same happens when you work full-time straight after leaving full-time school?

 

[Outdated]

It's more than likely, most of us use to start work at age 16.

 

[BewilderedPerson]

I’ve been thankful to hold down a full-time job for years, but it took me a while to get there.

 

[Ella Spell]

For most of us it's what I call The Lesson Of Limited Choice.

We didn't get any support in the world, not even from our families. By age 18 we were expected to be living in our own homes and supporting ourselves, someone staying home with their parents until age 20 was seen as weak.

It was a different world back then, harsher but in some ways better.

I moved out for uni at 18 and never went back. OK actually I did go back very briefly after I bought my house at 23 when I was waiting for the closing date. I stayed in my parents' basement for about a month but never unpacked.

It didn't occur to me I could move home again, or not work full time.

 

[Rogue Princess]

After rent is paid I get $400 a week play money, that's a lot for someone that hardly ever leaves the house. There's plenty of other people that struggle to survive on the pension, I'm managing to save $10K a year

You're lucky... They don't look after us kiwis so well...
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I've had 2 full time jobs. I worked at Burger King when I was 16 for 6-8 months and I left because I was getting bullied for being slow and naive. People learn you take things literally and believe anything and they decide to mess with you...

Then I was an assistant baker when I was 24? Fired for having meltdowns/forgetting things when my wage subsidy ran out.

I've done a bit of work experience as a kitchen assistant. Mostly washing dishes, I get praised for my dish washing skills. Also made salads and they let me play with knives

I'm happy in the kitchen. Perhaps I took women belong in the kitchen literally...

 

[Outdated]

You're lucky... They don't look after us kiwis so well...

There's a deal set up between Aust and NZ where if you come over here you get paid your pension through our government department and then you get paid at our rates. Quite a few older Kiwis come over here for that reason, they get more money. Not too many Aussies want to retire in NZ though, nice place but less money.

I've never had any interest in travelling overseas and I've never had a passport, but if I did the only thing I really want to see is the volcanic region on the north island. I don't think I'd want to go on a tour of White Island though.

 

[Rogue Princess]

@Outdated interesting. That wasn't the case in 2006 or 2009 when I was living in Brisbane. I had a short stint as a lollipop girl. my cutest job title ^-^ my father was running a roadworks crew

 

[Rogue Princess]

And they call road cones witches hats over there! I found it so amusing!!!

Move the witches hats and hold my lollipop in the merry old land of Oz