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What is executive dysfunction

Executive skills, on one psychological text (WASPIII, I think) are supposed to be skills related to decision making.


Here's a job that I recommend nobody even apply for: Wal-Mart, any department. They do not need more labor to abuse.

I have been teaching for 3 years now as a substitute and on term positions and I've figured out recently that after June (this contract), I don't want to do this anymore. Teaching is way too hard for me and I've battled physical sickness all year because of depression and anxiety.

But, here's the thing: I am well-educated (taking 8 years of music and education) and don't know what I will do after this year because I don't want to choose a mundane, dead-end job but I'm thinking of just being a substitute teacher from now on. There just are far too many pressures to having a term contract and it doesn't help when the principal is not on my side for most things. One example: she had interviews for my job (turning into a permanent) and didn't interview me at all! Worst of all, the interviews were in my school and I look more forward to the days off than the days on...hope I can make it through the year!

In my 20's I was an airline gate agent at the very busy Atlanta Airport and followed that with a job as a doorman/bellman at an upscale hotel in Atlanta. Sort of threw myself to the wolves there. Wouldn't recommend either of those jobs.

I teach and I am LEAVING once this term is over. I originally trained to teach English and Maths to disabled adults, but they've got me teaching nothing but 'challenging' teens who left school at 16 with no qualifications, (we call them NEET in the UK: Not in Education, Employment or Training.) I was pretty good at what I originally trained to do, but I'm not cut-out to teach teens. I'm used to being talked to like dirt, but I haven't had it this frequently since I was about 14 myself and still at school.

I'm looking to do something else, anything else (as long as its not retail or catering, I tried those and failed due to my dyspraxia).

I'd probably be a good copy editor or researcher, but I'm going to look for jobs where there is still interaction with the public. My parents still worry I'm too reclusive and antisocial (yes, I'm 23 years old and still prefer to play computer games over join a club.) I'm applying for jobs like business to business sales, where I get to read from a script and I'm not dealing with people who are automatically annoyed with me. I'm also looking at HR jobs, because I am quite a good negotiator and I'm very organised (for someone with a learning disability, anyway.) That might be a terrible career choice, yet again. Oh well, it's my life to screw up.

A few years ago I quit my job as a social worker... who knows why I ever thought that would be the job for me.

I became a bus driver. It was the best job. Being pleasant to passengers for 5 seconds as they get on is easy. 20% of the time you're running empty to the next terminal. If you have a bad trip you know that within the next 30 minutes everyone gets off and you can start afresh. Lots of alone time when doing charter duty. Most of the other bus drivers are crap so it doesn't take much effort to provide good service by comparison. There is a certain routine and pattern to every day.

There are drawbacks however... shift work, broken shifts, pay not fantastic (but honest), not an entirely respected profession.

I did it for a year then I got promoted - now I run the control room. So rather than driving 1 bus, I now direct 75 buses. It can be chaos BUT there is a daily pattern to everything and my job is to make sure that pattern doesn't stray too far. So when something goes wrong my Aspie brain goes into overdrive to get things right again.

i am lookign to become an architect and may have to us eht ebakc p of photgrapher is this a good or bad idea?

i am lookign to become an architect and may have to us eht ebakc p of photgrapher is this a good or bad idea?

The medical field has the potential for good pay and jobs that can be handled by someone with AS.
I am a radiation therapist, and the set routine is pleasant. There are quite a few jobs in radiology that would work out well, and also jobs in medical physics and dosimetry, if you can take the schooling required to get there.

If you live in Canada, a job in the construction trades can be good. I say in Canada because there is zero work in the USA, and even in Canada, 90% of the work is confined to Alberta and Saskatchewan. Boiler-makers, pipe-fitters, welders all make $100K a year (provided the work is there). Get in a union, do good work, you will be ok. The downsides are you have to be willing to travel, it's dirty and uncomfortable work usually, and the guys you work with are usually alcoholics and only talk about sports and bars. Still though, you don't have to sell yourself at all in this career, just show up and do a good job and you will stay employed and make big cash. I'm a pipefitter and it's pretty good. I might go back to school in a few years but for now you can't beat this racket.

Resteraunt kitchen worker sucks as well. There are a lot of damaged people working there who just love having someone to make the day go by faster when they have you to pick on. working at a machine shop was prettry good I sat in a little room by myself fixing scratched up machined parts to look good as new. I got the job when the metal finisher got mad and quit so they gave me his job. Two days later he came back looking for his job but I had it. We all pointed and laughed at him. The boss taught me how to use tools by handing the tools then telling me not to poke my eyes out with them. Hey now I know how to use metal finishing tools tools. On the other hand I could not run the cnc lathes due to the loud noises they made which is why I think I was laid off.

I can say that working a job based on deliveries and constant interaction with blue collar types is a VERY BAD IDEA.

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