Love your job?

[Harrison]

I love my job, it suits my aspie nature 100% and I get to experiment.

So what do I do?

I'm a recovery patro tech for a leading recovery firm in the UK. Dead simple, you break down and I come get you and take you where you want to go. It's great because -

• I get to drive a truck all day
• I'm outside in the big wide world but still feel cocooned safely
• No-one telling me what to do every five minutes, all computer controlled
• I only see the members once so I have a planned line of 'patter' that I can use repeatedly. I figure out which bits they like and change it to suit and hey-presto I'm functioning like an NT
• I do get to meet fascinating people including other aspies
• It's the most fun I can have in a working day

The job has no down sides, yes it can be dangerous but they pay well for that.

How many others love their job?

(off to work in a bit)

 

[Cerulean]

I do. I do very specialized tech support for a software company which makes software for hospitals and labs. I'm at the level where I have eight clients I am solely responsible for, instead of taking calls out of a queue of 1300 clients. I don't spend a lot of time on the phone anymore, and am enjoying the upper level troubleshooting. Plus even when we mess up (fortunately rarely) our manager has our back, and the company treats its employees really wonderfully. Also I am not the only Aspie here

 

[artfull dodger]

I am also fortunate to have a job that focuses on one of my obsessions, fixing lawn mowers. While at home I restore antique ones, I work on everything at my job. My shop is normly off limits to customers unless I take them back there. If I am not feeling very social that day, I stay back in the shop most of the time. If its slow, and I feel social that day, I will spend more time up on the sales floor talking to customers. I have worked other jobs in the past where I had nowhere to hide if I wasnt feeling up to dealing with people. And lets just say I didnt stay there long, same with jobs that were overly complex. Mike

 

[clg114]

I do love my job. I have been doing the same job for 45+ years. I work with electric vehicles, batteries and chargers. Almost all of that time I was a field tech, so I worked alone. This worked well with my Aspie ways. Due to health concerns, I retired six years ago. At that time I started a small business, working for some of my old customers. Now I work 15 to 20 hours a week, doing what I love to do. I am a very lucky individual.

 

[atrocityexhibition]

I love my job too. I write for a technology magazine focused on the energy industry, and I work on projects by myself approximately 90% of the day--writing articles and researching and editing. I am around cube-mates throughout the day, but most of them are writers and are fairly introverted themselves, which normally means we can converse on a level plane without them wearing me out mentally.

My supervisor is across the way, but does breathe down my neck about my workflow. She is very understanding and is there for me when I need her, but allows me to do what I need to in order to finish my articles and projects. I have lots of independence, but I'm not completely isolated, so I still get to improve my social skills through practice. It's the perfect job for me because even though my schooling was not in engineering, I love technology and engineering and science. I get to learn about it, and write about it, and it's full time.

Having a job I feel fits well with my AS tendencies has really improved my outlook on life.

 

[The Penguin]

No. I'm doing factory work which relates to nothing about my trade. Also hate doing 12 hour shifts for 4 days a week.

I'm trying to find an organization to provide funding for accommodations for a business program I want to take. Today I contact the business center and an organization that helps with disabilities to see if they can work out something together.

 

[Grumpy Cat]

No. I really don't like my job. Way too stressful and the way the hospital staffs is dangerous. You have to know something about everything. The actual "cardiac" floor a nurse will have 3 patients (4 max if staffed wrong), but our floor they call "medical/telemetry" so we take everything from strokes to cardiac to whatever they can throw at us AND the patients (which is most of them now) can be on telemetry. So we not only have to know how to handle most illnesses, but a lot of the really sick cardiac patients get put on our floor and then they go "bad" and have to be transferred to the actual cardiac floor or ICU. The reason I'm griping is that we are expected to take 6 and now with staffing not being adequate 7 patients per nurse which is way too many and is dangerous if one doesn't know what they are doing. This last weekend on one of the units the aide had to go home sick so that left three nurses in which two had 6 patients and one 7 patients doing "primary" care which I'm telling you is so dangerous I don't even want to think about it. If something happened like a patient really went "South" and all three nurses were needed in one room the other patients would be by themselves with no help.

The job requires that you keep up on several things - I need to get stroke certified soon, CPR certified, ACLS certified, Telemetry certified. I took a special "chemo" class to become a chemo nurse (which I was excited about), but we have such few chemo patients I only gave chemo once last year which is not enough to keep up on it when you're new at it. On a real chemo unit a nurse would only have a few patients in case a patient had a bad reaction to the chemo - not where I work. You are expected to take the chemo patient along with 4-5 other patients. Again way to dangerous. Too many things can happen when you give chemo and you can really hurt someone or even kill them. I'm not going to put myself or a patient in a situation like that. It also puts my license at risk. I let my chemo certification expire which I'm sure the hospital is not happy about because the class cost them about $300 to put me through it, but I will not take the risk. Another nurse also let her certification expire which leaves only one nurse and the clinical supervisors able to give chemo.

Why do I stay at this job you ask? Because I only work two 12 hour shifts a week and get very good pay since I work the weekend then I have the week off. Working nights has really screwed up my sleeping schedule, but I've been doing it so long now (12 years) that I know nothing else. I get all my holidays off unless it falls on a weekend, which is fair. When I was full-time I had to work almost every holiday and I really hated that. I'm getting my college classes that I'm taking now paid for. I like most of my co-workers. I guess you take the good with the bad. And when it's bad, it's very, very bad.

 

[Harrison]

No. I'm doing factory work which relates to nothing about my trade. Also hate doing 12 hour shifts for 4 days a week.

I'm trying to find an organization to provide funding for accommodations for a business program I want to take. Today I contact the business center and an organization that helps with disabilities to see if they can work out something together.

Sorry to hear that. What's your usual trade?
Hopefully your new contacts can get it sorted to suit you.

 

[The Penguin]

Sorry to hear that. What's your usual trade?
Hopefully your new contacts can get it sorted to suit you.

Software Development. I got many interviews this year but I don't do well on interviews as I'm having trouble giving the response the employer wants. I have learned other people with Aspergers do better being self employed than working for someone.

 

[Harrison]

Software Development. I got many interviews this year but I don't do well on interviews as I'm having trouble giving the response the employer wants. I have learned other people with Aspergers do better being self employed than working for someone.

It appears so, I was self employed for a while and it was a good choice.

Good luck with the interviews though, hope you get a good result.

 

[The Penguin]

It appears so, I was self employed for a while and it was a good choice.

Good luck with the interviews though, hope you get a good result.

bloody got a call just now I'm no longer need for the job I was doing.

Edit: The agency have a new placement for tonight. I am on my way now.

 

[DogwoodTree]

I love my job. I'm a technical writer of sorts. We develop curriculum materials, and I get to work from home.

 

[clg114]

Software Development. I got many interviews this year but I don't do well on interviews as I'm having trouble giving the response the employer wants. I have learned other people with Aspergers do better being self employed than working for someone.

I have been self-employed for six years and I love it. There is a lot less people to deal with. You have to make sure everything you need is in place first. If you get the chance, I would consider it. For me, the only bad thing is that I wish I would have done it a long time ago.

 

[The Penguin]

I have been self-employed for six years and I love it. There is a lot less people to deal with. You have to make sure everything you need is in place first. If you get the chance, I would consider it. For me, the only bad thing is that I wish I would have done it a long time ago.

Well the business program I taking will pay for my living expenses. I responsible getting money to invest in the business. Since the business is software related, there low overhead. Also for having a disability I have extra time for the program. It just working out how I will get accomindations but they did approved the business idea.

 

[Sheogorath]

I can't enjoy anything that is an obligation. It's for that very same reason that I was never good at any sports. As soon as I have to go to training on Wednesday, or have to go to a match on Saturday, I stop liking it. To me, something is fun when I get to choose when I do it. Make me do it and I start hating it. This is the case for school, jobs and pretty much any activities.