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Asperger's Is Gonna Make Me Poor

2010Dolby

2010Dolby

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Ok, so my full-time construction company has been shut-down for an undetermined amount of time. Apparently a bunch of my co-workers were hiding marijuana in our boxtrailors (yea, classy job, I know lol). I need a full time job to keep me busy and for money. Good thing I have my part-time warehouse job too, and that boss offered me about 30 hours a week.

The problem: My current shift at the warehouse is every weekend. Every weekend I work with the same people doing nearly the same work responsibilities. My boss from that job offered me full-time hours to make the warehouse my primary job. The weekend guys are great, Im comfortable around them and comfortable doing the "weekend work". But if I start working full-time then Ill be working around an entirely new set of people doing much different and higher responsiblity work.

It feels like Im starting a new job and I just cant get the confidence to start working the full-time shifts. I need to start working 5 days a week at the warehouse ASAP but Im freaking out about it. The full-time guys are pros at what they do, and thats fine-touch carpentry (making cabinets, artfully decorated chairs and tables) but I've spent all my life doing large-scale utilitarian construction (simple walls, stairs, siding). Its a completely different world of work with a completely new set of people.

Ugh. I know Im freaking out over a minor thing and its easy to tell my social anxiety is getting the best of me again because of this frantically and poorly written post haha but any advice someone can offer me is appreciated so much.
 
I get in the same boat sometimes. Take a deep breath you don't have to decide anything right away give herself a couple of days (or whatever your usual amount of calm inducing time is) then make a decision. I think giving yourself more credit is important too. I mean your boss wouldn't have offered if they didn't think you could handle the responsibility. You're not freaking out over nothing. I would be doing the same thing and have done the same thing when having to adjust my work schedule. Its ok just breath through it. You have the power. Or at least that is what I tell my self. I hope this helps.
 
2010Dolby said:
Ok, so my full-time construction company has been shut-down for an undetermined amount of time. Apparently a bunch of my co-workers were hiding marijuana in our boxtrailors (yea, classy job, I know lol). I need a full time job to keep me busy and for money. Good thing I have my part-time warehouse job too, and that boss offered me about 30 hours a week.

The problem: My current shift at the warehouse is every weekend. Every weekend I work with the same people doing nearly the same work responsibilities. My boss from that job offered me full-time hours to make the warehouse my primary job. The weekend guys are great, Im comfortable around them and comfortable doing the "weekend work". But if I start working full-time then Ill be working around an entirely new set of people doing much different and higher responsiblity work.

It feels like Im starting a new job and I just cant get the confidence to start working the full-time shifts. I need to start working 5 days a week at the warehouse ASAP but Im freaking out about it. The full-time guys are pros at what they do, and thats fine-touch carpentry (making cabinets, artfully decorated chairs and tables) but I've spent all my life doing large-scale utilitarian construction (simple walls, stairs, siding). Its a completely different world of work with a completely new set of people.

Ugh. I know Im freaking out over a minor thing and its easy to tell my social anxiety is getting the best of me again because of this frantically and poorly written post haha but any advice someone can offer me is appreciated so much.
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You're fine Dolby, it happens to many people, don't try to ignore it try not to get annoyed by being annoyed :) You've got a job and that's good. Do you have anyone to talk about your anxiety at work place or you don't want show it to anyone? Sometime the more "cool", or however you want to call it, you're trying to appear, the more anxious you can become. It's sort of like you're trying to hide some crazy wild animal in your pocket or something :) Take it easy, do what you have to, eventually the new situation will become the old one and all the anxiety will dissolve :) You can do it , man! Everybody, cheer for Dolby :D

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Thanks so much guys! Im supposed to go in Friday afternoon with the full-time guys. I printed off pictures of all the stuff I want done to my truck, lift-kit, storm-lights, and a brush guard. I just look at those pictures and thats enough motivation to start working some overtime.
 
Good luck tomorrow. It sounds like they have honored you with a fantastic opportunity. If it was within my interest I would do it because of the added skills = versatility. I would be afraid as well, however I go in there and when they greet me in the morning I say "kinda nervous/excited about the new opportunity" in as positive a tone as I can muster. So they have heard me say it. I guess that makes me feel a bit better. Then, I make sure that I'm clear on the instruction or training to minimize my chances of screw ups.
I think it sounds really neat that you are being offered this, and in turn you can possibly offer more to clients in the future. Awesome!
 
2010Dolby, it’s all been said here before but just to restate the obvious, I reckon you’re going to do great, don’t forget that it is only your own self doubt gnawing at you because apparently, everybody else only sees your potential.

Just treat the job like you always did, as it was that attitude that they observed that decided them on giving you the new position. We are all giving you this great advice but we all would be shitting bricks as well in your place, its just the way the aspergical mind is put together, six months from now when you’re literally a part of the furniture around the place and the boss asks how they ever got along without you, well, you can just say it was a long hard climb and without his (the boss) help to guide you, you couldn’t have done it. Hey, sucking up is a good thing :lol:
 
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