Suggested/Not suggested Jobs for Aspergers.

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Do you think that teaching high school or middle school might be better? I personally have considered it because of the routine being the same everyday. Unfortunately I can't teach people things very well, so I won't be a teacher.

I student taught pre-diagnosis and hated it. Teenagers are such an emotional mess and routine means nothing. You can do your lesson plans, but that does not mean that you will always be able to stick to them. There are days were kids were not responding and I had to come up with things on the fly. Or deal with teenagers who were belligerent, strung out, bored, etc. and all they want to do is disrupt class. Then I went to law school and that seems to be working out for me because I have a real interest in laws, legal research and logical reasoning. Yes, you get emotional cases, like divorces and whatnot, but I have learned to just turn it off and to not respond to the emotions. Afterall, it is not me they are mad at and I can fake a good sympathetic look and head nod.

Believe it or not, medical professions offer Aspies some great opportunities for good wages while providing lots of contextual formatting for interacting with NTs. This, in turn, leads to cultivation of adaptive social skills that are beneficial outside of the contextual confines of interaction. Also, certain fields within medicine--eg emergency medicine, radiology, hospice--tend to draw fellow Aspies as well as folks who fall within NT ranges but whose values and behaviors are compatible with Aspies. Sure there are circumstances where things still get a bit uncomfortable/dicey (I was a street paramedic in a large city for several years, then became in ER physician), but between 40 plus years of living and 20 plus years in the medical field all over the world I can tell you that it works for me. I still certainly have my moments and am aware of certain "perfect storms" of circumstance where my innate Aspy nature causes problems, but I've learned to live with it all.

I was thinking if you had executive dysfunction as part of your autism air traffic controller would be a really awful job.

I work as a grocery bagger. I would not reccomend it. As a matter of fact, jobs where you have to interract with a large ammount of people would probably be a bad fit. I only keep from getting fired probably because I work on weekends and can recover over the week.
I'm thinking of transfering to night stocking though. That would be much better.

I disagree with the taxi driver being on the "not good" list. I loved being a taxi driver, because you get frequent breaks from social contact when you're on your way to the next job or waiting on a job. Pizza delivery at a busy store worked very well for me also, same thing. Contact was limited and all I had to do was hand over the pizza and say something pleasant.

This assumes of course that you don't mind driving. I love to drive, personally.

I work as a cashier, but there are several important factors in making my job doable:

1) I work in a bookstore, which means my customers aren't bad for the most part, a lot of quiet/smart/friendly booky people (plus: books!).
2) My coworkers are fantastic, very understanding and friendly and welcoming and booky themselves. But ... chatty, yes.
3) Social interactions aplenty, yes, but they are all short and you can make up a few stock phrases that you can use over and over again, provided you remember to put inflection in your voice so you don't sound uncaring to the customers.
4) I work part-time, at most twenty hours a week, so plenty of time to refuel. There is NO WAY IN HELL I could do this full-time.

But, yeah, there problems. It gets pretty mechanical, assembly-line-type work. There is the occasional nasty customer (whoyoucanhandovertoamanager). My job involves a certain amount of upselling, which I hate. I kindasorta wouldn't mind a different job.

I am currently an elementary music teacher and sometimes it can be too much with all the classroom management. Sometimes I just want to quit (actually most of the time) and just return to accompanying/performing.

I'm not reaching my students the way that I would like to...they likely see me as weird and not able to do my job.

I'm a statistician, which was on the list from the link above.

I love it.

It's like being a detective and finding patterns in noise. I feel like the "data-whisperer".

It's a very, very portable area of study. You can analyze data in all kinds of different industries. It's good for people like me with a) broad interests, and b) indecision.

It can bypass politics. I have a hard time convincing, influencing, consensus-building. If i can show it with data, it's not about force of personality, but rather truth. I let the data be my big guns, and it works.

I used to work in research libraries and it was a great fit because the topics were interesting and I got to research obscure stuff all day long. Oh, and I didn't have to dress up.

Now I teach which is terrible on so many levels - I think someone mentioned most of the drawbacks above. It's basically a fancy dead end job with so many students in the class that it's impossible to teach what used to be a special interest of mine. I don't even care anymore.

I have worked with young children and special education populations for a with at least some success. I often have some trouble with their parents and co workers, but left to my own devices with these kids things turn out pretty well.

I have always enjoyed being in a laboratory environment. There wasn't many people in my lab and I worked at my own pace. It was so relaxing.

would something like a horse trainer be a good job for Aspie/brain injured person(s)?

Requires people skills and the ability to think quickly.

Depends. Why?

Depends on the number of passengers an airport has yearly. If you're talking Chicago O'Hare International, Atlanta-Hartsfield International, or someplace like that, yeah, being an air traffic controller's not an ideal job. However, if you're referring to a mid-sized city (like where I am), it wouldn't be as bad.