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What's the most suitable job you had?

Mr Allen

Mr Allen

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For me it's working in Charity shops, not too busy but busy enough to keep me interested, and I enjoy serving a variety of customers despite the usual negative notion of us Aspies lacking "people skills".

I'm also very good at computer based admin work, typing documents, answering emails and general Secretarial type stuff, and my telephone manner isn't that bad, according to a survey a few years back, most people who ring call centres on a regular basis love a strong Yorkshire accent.

So anyway, how about you guys? What's been your most appropriate work?
 
I've say for me it's working in the trades. I like the technical nature of my job, I like using hand tools and there isn't much social interaction. I do mostly framing/structural construction.
 
I've only had one job in my life so far but it was more or less perfectly suited to my skills and personality. I did clerical work at a creative writers' conference. Most of the tasks were simple and kind of tedious at times but this was more than made up for by the fact that I only worked with one other person: my "boss" who was the sweetest and most ridiculously down-to-earth lady on the planet. The only job I think could be more ideal would be being paid to write novels; perhaps I'd have something to show for my writing ability if I had a consistent work environment and benefits to motivate me.
 
The most suitable job that I have ever had was working for a equipment company as a field technician. In my 50 year working career, that is all I have ever done. I have worked for 4 different companies during that time and am now self-employed, doing the same thing.

The reason that is so suitable for me is that I work with my special interest and I work alone. Just right for this old Aspie.
 
The job I enjoyed the most was spending time with children and teaching them orienteering and survival skills in a forest setting. It gave me the ability to walk and hike all day in old forests and pass on the skills that I have to others.
 
Proofreading people's books. I love reading and also work better and more efficient on my own.

I am told that I read excellently outloud, but I hate my voice, so that would be out.
 
I am very good with anything that involves intense focus. I can focus really well. I am pretty good at fixing things and putting things together. I don't read directions very well, but all I need are the pictures anyway and I can do it.
 
I'll have to say it was when I appointed myself as the Mayor of Aspieville :D
 
I've only ever had three jobs, and one of those was an on and off sort of thing that didn't last long (waitress, I was awful). I was also a cleaner at a leisure centre one summer while in uni, and to be honest, I enjoyed that. My OCD wasn't so bad back then and you were mostly just left to your own devices. Nobody expected you to interact with the public, and most of them didn't even see you because you're just a cleaner. The last job I had was as an office junior at a solicitors. Worst job ever.
 
The most appropriate job (if I can call it that) that I have had thus far was writing my autobiography for a person I met through "LinkedIn" who asked me to do it as a favour for her. She has published her own work, both online and off, and so I let her handle those aspects of it. Technically it was a "job", but at the same time it kind of wasn't. Anyway, being a writer is probably what would be ideal for me, and it was a lot of fun even though I often had to drag up old, painful memories as well.
 
I'm only had one paid job before and that was working at a factory launderette. Not particularly autism friendly - loud noises, handling hundreds of towels that dry your hands up, areas which you work at and shift times that change every week.
 
Probably my last 2 cyber teaching jobs and my current job working in an accounting office seem to have been most suitable for me.
 
When it was a seller's market, being an electronic technician (in various capacities) was a good match. The only down side was that the solder fumes kept making me sick.

I enjoyed programming even more, but was unable to break into that market.
 
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