Where do you work?

[Midnight Mushroom]

Hey everyone. I've been looking for a job for a while but it hasn't gone too well. I was wondering what kinds of jobs you've found. So, where do you work? How does ASD or anything else you may have help / hurt you on the job? What jobs have you found doable and what jobs are just impossible?

I almost got a job at a laboratory taking care of mice and honestly I think that would have been great. No angry customers, simple repetitive tasks, and knowing my work would help people.

I was an intern in a vet clinic for several months and it was a mix of hell and heaven. I loved working with the animals, but I couldn't really talk to my coworkers. To be fair, they weren't very accommodating. At least once a week (I worked 3 days a week) I'd end up crying in the bathroom.

 

[Streetwise]

Hey everyone. I've been looking for a job for a while but it hasn't gone too well. I was wondering what kinds of jobs you've found. So, where do you work? How does ASD or anything else you may have help / hurt you on the job? What jobs have you found doable and what jobs are just impossible?

I almost got a job at a laboratory taking care of mice and honestly I think that would have been great. No angry customers, simple repetitive tasks, and knowing my work would help people.

I was an intern in a vet clinic for several months and it was a mix of hell and heaven. I loved working with the animals, but I couldn't really talk to my coworkers. To be fair, they weren't very accommodating. At least once a week (I worked 3 days a week) I'd end up crying in the bathroom.

You're anything I really enjoyed taking care of my mother couldn't work in the laboratory I wouldn't want to give the impression that I think vivisection is good I think it is evil

 

[Utini]

Hey everyone. I've been looking for a job for a while but it hasn't gone too well. I was wondering what kinds of jobs you've found. So, where do you work? How does ASD or anything else you may have help / hurt you on the job? What jobs have you found doable and what jobs are just impossible?

I almost got a job at a laboratory taking care of mice and honestly I think that would have been great. No angry customers, simple repetitive tasks, and knowing my work would help people.

I was an intern in a vet clinic for several months and it was a mix of hell and heaven. I loved working with the animals, but I couldn't really talk to my coworkers. To be fair, they weren't very accommodating. At least once a week (I worked 3 days a week) I'd end up crying in the bathroom.

I work in a busy busy hospital. My mother pushed me into being a CNA when I was 17 and I have been stuck doing this type of work ever since. All I have ever done is healthcare. I do not know what it is like to have any other job but I'm sure I would be a lot happier doing something else. I wanted to work in a lab as well.

Honestly, I wouldn't suggest working in healthcare unless you think you could handle whatever is thrown at you. I have so many stories. It's a noisy, crazy, fast paced job that requires communication. I will be going back to night shifts soon as I have a hard time with small talk and fear it.

My dream job would be to work from home and to never have to use the phone.

 

[Mr Allen]

Nowhere at the moment, but not for lack of trying.

Next year, I'll get a job! I've been saying that for the last 20 years though and apart from various voluntary positions it hasn't gone to plan.

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

I work as a research assistant at a university. It's a great job, not much requirement to work with others, can work from home as much as I want, and my tendency to hyperfocus makes me really good at it.
I've previously worked as a countryside ranger on a nature reserve which I also loved, again lots of solo work and working outside was great fun, I only left because I wanted to go into research. Same with part time jobs on a farm and as a tree surgeons assistant.

My first part time job job was as a sales assistant in a garden centre, and it was hell, I couldn't cope with working in customer service. I was fired after a couple of months for being terrible at it and it was a huge relief.

 

[bchamp]

I work as...well, a feared job I used to have years ago. A cashier at a grocery store, a very busy one at that.

 

[AsheSkyler]

I'm self-employed twice over, because nobody will hire me for whatever reason. Put in hundreds of applications over the past few years with one rejection email and dead-end interview to show for it. Now I own an income tax preparation and bookkeeping business, and do freelance portrait artwork on the side.

Worst job was working at for a nationwide corporation. I'll never work for another one. It was worse than the under-the-table job where a whacko drug addict coworker was waving a gun around and I got fired because I wouldn't let the bastard pull my hair everyday.

 

[Bolletje]

I'm a junior doctor in internal medicine at a regional hospital.

My eye for detail, good bedside manner and my memory make me very good at my job.

I get anxious over coffee breaks and lunch breaks with my coworkers though, because it's expected to talk about other things than work and I struggle with that.

 

[Andrew206]

I work in a corporate cafe doing prep work and cleaning. I have the same tasks daily, and having a routine like that helps me. I could never be a line cook-I'd get frustrated easily and have to cook a lot of things at once. It would be difficult for me to remember a lot of things at once on the line.

 

[HDLSeanWiley]

I work at a Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts store.

 

[Progster]

I work at home. I do translation, proof reading and private language tuition.