Five fields an Aspie should NEVER work in

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Lmao, been a restaurant manager for 16 years - at points I've trained and opened restaurants - you're right though, it's a terrible job for an aspie. I could be a great actor now I guess as well as I've learned not to act aspie.

I think my autistic traits would make it hard for me to become a teacher. Being a teacher requires explaining things orally and I have a lot of trouble with oral communication. In addition, I think I would have a hard time in grade schools dealing with students disrupting the class and harassing other students.

Criminal defense lawyers are the "waiters" of the profession and only a small part of it. I am currently pursuing government regulatory work at the FTC/SEC/DOJ (won't say which I'll be working for), which I think is very aspie-friendly. My main job will be reviewing stacks of documents and data, looking for patterns that could indicate corporate malfeasance. I already do a version of this job part-time at the state level, so I know what it's like.

No client interaction at all since the "client" is the people of the United States, and the enemy is capitalism.

I was a Barman, I've done Telemarketing and I've worked in construction, Only one I disliked was Telemarketing.

Sorry I disagree with you on that as an aspie I'm going into sales. I've always sold a helluva a lot of stuff. Sometimes I broke records. Of you have OCD you can focus on this career

< line cook at a busy chain restaurant on the broiler station [I do enjoy my prep shifts, however]

You're going into sales, but you've already sold a lot of stuff??

Anyways - I could see somebody with Aspergers being good at certain niches of sales, or depending on the context.
I'd speculate that they'd do better in a sales setting where the client has some interest already, like inbound sales inquiries; but not so much "cold" sales or lead generation, which requires a very friendly and charming personality and ability to be spontaneous. Still - if you can make more $$ and success and happiness under the former method than the latter, who cares!! !

I have zero persuasiveness. I thought this was one of the prominent aspie traits.

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I have just completed my first year of training in counselling and I found the skills side of it surprisingly difficult. I was very good at the understanding of the theoretical approaches, good at reflecting and summarising the spoken word but I found it difficult selecting the correct words to reflect the emotion that the person was expressing. Following on from that I'm considering not pursuing this career. I have been an analytical chemist for the whole of my adult life and I always wondered why I have been so good at that job. My son was recently diagnosed with Asperger;s and that made me question myself. At the age of 33 I have finally been diagnosed with it too. I feel so relieved as it answers a lot of questions about how I find social situations so difficult etc but I feel disheartened at the thought of a career in counselling may now be out of the question as some of the training may not be within my grasp of understanding. Is empathy a trait that can be learned in the same way I have learned how to behave in social situations? I'm so new to all this!

Empathy is a term that has so many different meanings I would'nt know where to start.

That said, being able to show the non-verbal and verbal communication signs of what is expected as "empathy" presumably can be learned.

I found that there are interesting high value opportunities for Aspergers in sales and management.

Line management is not great for aspies. I have probably been a terrible boss, providing people with solutions, rather then letting them learn, missing opportunities to show personal issues. etc. However, honesty, reliability, commitment and loyalty plus honest analysis are values in management teams.

Similarly, straight forward sales is full of confrontation, faking, bluffing and other things aspies are weak in. But strategic business development and development of new strategic partnerships requires the same kind of core aspie values: trust worthyness, creativity, new ideas, loyalty in relationships can be of great value in managing key accounts.

That, plus the "redneck attitudes" that exist in the construction industry.

Retail, hairdressing and possibly admin which includes reception. I don't like any of these.

You should just do private instruction at your own home probably. Self employment can be really good to look into, if you ask me, though.

I've always had strong aversion to HOSPITALITY, SALES and MANAGEMENT... not sure about the EMERGENCY SERVICES because I'm only stressed in social situations where I'm expected to fake "normal" behavior; in emergency, I remain composed and react better than many other people I know because I'm 1. too dumb to panic and 2. too cold to really suffer seeing people bleeding, dying, etc.
As to this...

... well, I have some teaching experience, and I would say that it's all right if you work as a tutor with only one student at a time, or in small groups where everyone is interested in the subject and the atmosphere is friendly.
Otherwise, it's a nightmare. I worked at school for some five or six months, and I learned by experience that the social relationships there were far from simple. A teacher gets involved in conflicts between kids, parents, other teachers, school management, etc., and it takes a lot of empathy and diplomatic skills to solve them. Besides, teaching involves a lot of pubic speaking which not everyone feels comfortable with.
I also worked as an assistant teacher at the university for about a year after the graduation. It was better than school; at least, the whole process was at a higher intellectual level. But anyway, I felt that I was not in the right place.