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Are you Employed?
1. yes fulltime 38%  38%  [ 42 ]
2. yes but only part time. 19%  19%  [ 21 ]
3. no. 43%  43%  [ 47 ]
Total votes : 110

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22 Mar 2010, 1:59 pm

This poll is based on the thread "why are only 12% of aspies employed.?".

The question is are you employed?

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1. Fulltime
2. part time
3. No



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22 Mar 2010, 2:26 pm

I am employed full time at a highly rated bank.



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22 Mar 2010, 2:37 pm

I work part-time at my college. It's getting me through.



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22 Mar 2010, 3:31 pm

No, but when I finish college hopefully I can find a job. I think it's harder for aspies to get hired because they don't do well with interviews. It's also a tough economy so a lot of Americans are unemployed.


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22 Mar 2010, 3:41 pm

Yes, full time salaried. I design shoes for Nike.



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22 Mar 2010, 3:49 pm

Adventus wrote:
This poll is based on the thread "why are only 12% of aspies employed.?".

The question is are you employed?

Options
1. Fulltime
2. part time
3. No


I was employed, both full and part-time for some 35 years - in between lengthy bouts of unemployment. Now I'm not legally allowed to be employed due to a discrimination against my Autism that no one will resolve. I didn't find that on the poll. :?



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22 Mar 2010, 5:00 pm

Fully employed doing things I can't do for any other employer because they don't see any value in it. I don't make a lot of money, but I am doing what I want to do, along the lines of what I proposed in the future works section of my thesis. I'm not employable for what I want to do in academia because I don't fit into already-set agendas. I take some pride in saying that it's not strictly of academic importance.


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22 Mar 2010, 5:28 pm

I'm employed full-time right now. When I'm unemployed I'm unemployed for long stretches. I guess I don't interview well.

I work for a really good company right now though, hopefully it lasts a while. :)


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22 Mar 2010, 5:57 pm

Full time but just barely, not 40 hours.
I do menial labor, cleaning offices, but I like it because I'm free to let my mind wander. Like a stressed out office worker once told me " Your mind is your own."
What it doesn't have is money, status or group health insurance.



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22 Mar 2010, 7:39 pm

Studying is like unemployment my parents don't mind telling their friends about.



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22 Mar 2010, 10:16 pm

I've been unemployed for about 2.5 years now.



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23 Mar 2010, 4:36 am

Employed part time and studying.


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23 Mar 2010, 4:51 am

The results of this will be skewed as more people who are in employment will visit this section of the site.



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23 Mar 2010, 10:14 am

I don't know about that. I'm unemployed and I visit this section quite often.


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23 Mar 2010, 3:08 pm

I work, part time. But nowhere near enough to make a living, more like gas and beer money. I need a full time job in addition to this little gig I have on the side.



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23 Mar 2010, 5:24 pm

Not yet. I'm hoping to be soon.