Quit job. Don't know what job to look for. STUCK.

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I basically don't know where I'm gonna start as far as explaining my story but I'll do my best and just generalize:

I worked at a food warehouse for a year and a half and practically the whole time became overwhelmed with stress, disappointment, overwhelm, anger, misunderstanding. People would make me feel so much misunderstanding and pressure I'd literally be coming home early every week, or because of my computer addiction (nothing inappropriate or gaming, I belonged to a fashion community now defunct called Polyvore) I'd lack punctuality and just basically keep a poor attendance record, but because of my accommodations, I was kept there with the need to pay me because at least they had someone devoted enough to even do my thing as a kitchen associate at all...

But I quit two weeks ago. Left, but I have a new DOR rep, reopened my case and even went to see a representative of a company to help recruit people with disorders that failed miserably.

Right now as I speak I should be looking for jobs but I have NO IDEA WHERE TO START.

Also, together my mom and my budget shared together makes us now flat broke due to personal reasons, and even if my mom is pushing me to as much as find a volunteer job if not paid part or full time, I just sit there on my website favorite spots. But I'm here for advice. Sorry for the long explanation but now that you know where I'm coming from I have to say, I only have a certificate in graphic design, don't want to go back to school for it even if I wanted to which I don't.
Some things I might be able to quickly learn could be a data entry job or a work from home creative writer, but my mom thinks the latter is impossible despite my decent natural ability. I also hang in there and try to work on "selling" tee designs in a free shop. I'm trying to find a job that fits.

Desk jobs are more viable now than data entry, file clerk jobs are hard to really get into, mid level anything means even if you have creative talent you have to go back to school. End of story. Can't do any of that right now, and warehouse will be me back to going to project dead end. My mom and I are at odds because we're waiting for DOR to get back to me (rep currently on vacation), can't figure out my niche and feel hopeless. I almost keep telling myself I have no niche, because if I can't afford to go back to school and know that too many even entry level jobs require people skills (I'll also be open and say I have bipolar and anxiety) I just limit myself. Warehouse is as easy as it gets, but I refuse to go back.

How do I choose my path the best? If you've had a similar situation or can give as much as a little tidbit of constructive advice, I'll gladly work with it.

Thanks to all who read and can put up with this story

Is there an industrial park you can get to and apply in person? Companies in industrial parks often have jobs that require minimal people skills.

I don't find an insightful statement of why you left your job, just a list of feelings it generated: "overwhelmed with stress, disappointment, overwhelm, anger, misunderstanding." So in order to make a new start, I suggest you look at the things about the job that made it hard for you to work there. You need to do this to make smart moves in your next endeavor.

For instance, was the lack of routine at your job something that constantly bombarded you? Did you have to interact with too many people? Did you have trouble understanding what was expected of you?

I also think there's something between you and your mother that is only hinted at, not explained. Did she count on your income? Does she work herself? I think for you to make a smart move, you should understand the nature of push-pull forces between your mother and yourself. After all, it's yourself - not your mother - that will apply for jobs, interview, and have to show up each work day. Also - if you are carrying the whole weight financially, maybe your household should instead get some form of income support.

I hope this helps. If not, just discard it!

Googled that, and of course being my naive self still have no idea what an industrial park would offer to me and how the application works, the job benefits, all that. I would just question how easy it'd even be to find a place that tailors more to accommodations and welcoming environments. Have you/do you currently work that kind of job?

An industrial park typically has no restaurants or retail. My wife suggested it in case I ever needed it.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/in ... l-park.asp
My wife said that a lot of NTs won't work in an industrial park. The jobs don't have enough social contact for their needs.

I have a pretty good engineering job, but it has evolved to where it has too much social contact for many Aspies. It was much better for Aspies when I started.

To the best of my knowledge, an industrial park is just a place offering buildings, streets, warehousing etc. to other companies. It exists mostly on paper. It is not a big employer. You would still have to apply to each company in the industrial park.

Yes, you often need to apply to each company in person. Which reduces the competition for the jobs. They want to see you show up and present yourself.

Sorry to use any form of mild language or language at all but I got a damn good wake-up call when you gave me this.

...so I thought of this the second I could answer your first paragraph:

Ok, so one thing I felt didn't work for me is that my job gave me "little room for growth" as lots of work situations entail; find work positions in a food warehouse setting to do more challenging, experience-backed positions like grocery inventory associate and quality assurance which I applied for, although yes, and you can shake your head disappointedly at this, I hoped i'd get the job knowing I still had a bad attendance record and it'll be even worse to try to get a more challenging role at another warehouse considered I quit. Besides that and a bad punctuality rep, the only reason I would work at a warehouse again is if they gave me a slightly more involving position offer soon down the road.

But besides lack of room to feel potential, as many with sensitive stress reasons would feel, here's my situation: this was a very toxic and odd environment; people eventually would clique and keep me out of joining team groups to do warehouse food packaging assignments and my PM shift boss said if I couldn't work fast, too bad, and no way would working alone to use coordination and speed skills to work on individual food sorting and packing jobs be any different, so deal with it, despite my accommodations. Even though I hated the idea of waking up hours early despite the short commute just to get to work at 5 (shift over at 1:30 in afternoon) on time for my AM shift, the boss was more lenient, and was perfectly fine with me working with just one girl individually every day, even though my relationship with the girl wasn't the best and she had to leave for personal reasons of her own. I just had to leave AM shift despite my boss' acceptive disposition and considered that I'd be more of a night owl type, which would be fine for me as I changed to PM shift and went for it halfway through my first year at the warehouse.

PM really wasn't that great, like I said about my boss, and I was very sensitive with people, slow, and it was hard for me to communicate; it was a very diverse workplace as well also so sometimes rich accents, even in English, were hard to decode. No offense at all, I'm not racist, but it's probably common among most Aspies, give or take. I should disclose right here and now, as said above, I cope with a lot of stress issues and have been long diagnosed with Bipolar and Asperger's, a pretty common recipe for toxic job toleration disaster. Yes, I am very sensitive, yes I was hard to work with. But now that I think about it, and now that I need a therapist to discuss all this we can't afford one right now and I had to leave my current one which was a saddening goodbye even though she helped me her best to walk me through PM shift as well as my computer addiction solutions (although this job thing is the biggest deal right now, so let's not get to the latter).

Really my mom and I fight daily concerning me and my job search, getting over my computer issues, my being responsible around the house and just how we communicate sometimes, but just the reason of not looking for a job at all is mainly because I feel hopeless, and even though like I said I think I could go back to a warehouse if they eventually, hopefully soon, promote me to a more challenging and high paying position. Except that slim chance of the ease of it happening with my issues at work causing me to quit. Wish I could get through with that one.

Also, to answer your question about my Mom and me budget-wise, BeaArthur, I tried getting Social Security to open up the case again and hopefully provide for our situation, but as the obvious result would be, that's not going to happen because I officially stand "no longer disabled enough if I can work as long and as hard as I did." Something of that note.
We're flat broke and I really want to support again with a job. My mom does work as a court reporter but is running out along with me so we have to really penny-pinch on things we thought nothing of.

But, and I know I speculated enough, sorry, I still wonder about if I can find a job in a warehouse situation and just hint at the possibility of eventually being trained to get promoted on a more difficult area similar to what I was shooting for at my current warehouse, despite having quit, but just with them understanding my accommodations and knowing I worked there for a decent amount of time.
If I persist at any job with a hopeful attitude that obviously matters.

If the deal poked at with another warehouse isn't possible, are there any other suggestions considering my situation?

A year and a half at your most recent job is actually a decent track record for starters. You should make up a plausible and unembarassing reason for why you left it though. Possibly "no room for advancement" would work.

Don't limit yourself to warehouse jobs. Maybe an office job wouldn't be too bad. Since you are into computers (as a pastime) you might be pretty good at some of the office jobs which nowadays rely so heavily on computers. And you mentioned quality control, so maybe put that on your resume as an objective.

Go to job fairs. Apply online. What does your state offer in the way of job listings? Also use online job brokers such as Indeed or Monster.

I think if your mom can see you are making the effort, she will be more supportive. Set a goal for yourself, such as "send 3 resumes a day and complete 1 application a day."

Good luck. I bet it won't be too long before you find something you can do. Be sure to carefully consider things like start time, time to commute, etc. before you accept an offer.