Best job for an Aspie

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I sent an email to the Cilag-Jensen company, and one of their bosses actually answered. I wanted to be a guinea pig for testing Concerta, but she declined me in a polite manner.

I wrote Hoffman La Roche about moclobemide in about 1992 and they gave me the address to two hospital in Texas studing moclobemide. I never went. Oh I read a 91/92
artical in which it treated social phobia. It went to a dr about a year later and got on
Zoloft.

I want to be a surgeon. I used to be a police dispatcher, and I was seriously considering being an EMT, but I think surgeon offers the most stuff to be learned. Plus, I used to work 90 hours a week when I was dispatching. So, I could get really obsessed with being a surgeon because they work long weeks, too.

Right now I bench test modems at the cable company. I'm alone, so any communication is voluntary, and the people I work with are frequently interesting to listen to. They also don't seem to have any particular problem with hearing me muttering Chinese from behind my little area barricaded by stacks of bad modems. In unstimulating jobs, you can run out of decent audiobooks pretty quickly. I figure if you're bored but making decent money, it doesn't hurt to learn a new language.

I'm also taking EMT classes. The nuts and bolts of it fascinates me and I'm really good at it, but the communication part always kills me in the tests.

I enjoyed being a sawyer for a logging company. I mostly worked by myself. I took care of my own equipment. The harder I worked, the more I got paid. And I was pretty good at it. Too bad it is so dangerous and doesn't pay like it used to.

Please say geologist, please say geologist.

Tim

Observational jobs are nice.. I'd like to do Psychology as I've been personally studying people all my life without being aware of it..

Astronomer would be nice, although I've no interest in space, its a great observational job

I'd like to help people gain control of their minds through meditation and other practices - I'm very big on that as a means of ridding or dealing with anxiety, pressure, depression, etc.. Although, my practices, my personal practices, are a bit different

I've worked in several job types, and usually have bad experiences, for the usual reasons. So, I'm currently going into the truck driving profession, which I think is a great job for aspies since there is not much need to interact with people. I'm just starting out, but I can't think of anything that can beat being paid to tour the country (with my cat), spending all day in a music-induced euphoria, not having to worry about interacting with co-workers or bosses or much of anybody else. Plus, this profession pays well - starting salaries are currently between $30,000-40,000 a year and partly due to drivers isolation (to NTs that means 'loneliness", there is a huge demand for people to be drivers. There are currently something like a half a million trucks and trailers sitting in lots across the country with nobody to drive them. So, its also not too difficult to get a job, and the training/school lasts roughly 4 weeks to get certified training and the CDL-A license. The only down side I've heard about is that an experienced driver who lives down the street from me cautioned me to not believe everything drivers or companies tell me, and of course I tend to literally believe everything anybody tells me, being an aspie.....

Anyway, it looks good to me, at least so far!

Being a writer would be nice, any job where you could work from home would be ideal for aspies i think.

If I ever got out of the software industry (voluntarily or involuntarily), I'd be a garbage man. They get pretty decent pay, it has measurable results (all the garbage has been collected; software projects are never really over), and you're doing an important public service.

Explosives engineer, Trying to foil a aluminium soda can into a perfect dice. With spots coloured by the artificial colours in the soda.

Absolutely totally a collection curator in a museum. You get to work alone or with minimal contact, there's tonnes of latin to learn, and nothing beats ordering and indexing, and then reordering and reindexing thousands of specimens. Come to think of it, given that I studied zoology at uni, I can't quite figure out why I ended up being a software developer instead of a curator

WOW PIPER!

I was beginning to think I was one of the least affected drivers here. I HATE driving large vehicles. I was given a SMALL truck, and a van once. Once I was even given a full size car. They SCARED me! I'm always afraid I will slip, and get a scratch or worse. Since this feeling is apparantly unusual, I think it is related to the related feelings I have regarding personal distance, etc... that ARE autistic symptoms.

I actually TOYED with being an airline pilot. Based on your success, I guess THAT's a good job ALSO! Constant raises, no real need to be sociable, potentially lots of free time, etc... OH YEAH, they can travel like you, and ALSO get free travel allowance and "buddy travel" allowance. In some cases, even the meals and other things are paid for.

Alas, the bigger the plane, the higher the pay, and I wouldn't want to nick one of those wings, or whatever. GRANTED they have a half dozen people watching your back, etc... but STILL...

Steve

I wonder if it would be fine for me to be a journalist.
I would rather perfer photojournalist as I love photography and I would love a job where I can go out and learn at the same time as work.
It's possible that I could be working in a politician's office sometime next year though, if she might need someone in her electorate office.

I'd be careful with journalism. I was going to head to newspaper journalism until I talked to two different journalists at the same paper and they said that it's a dying field. I'm big into telling stories, like history and theatre. I'm actually interested in being a magician. I also love to learn, so who knows? Librarian might be nice, but I don't think I'd want to work in a grade school. One job you should never go for: anything to do with working in cafeterias with kids 10 and under, especially if your hearing is more sensitive the the average person. I learned that the hard way. I say this because where I work, a historic village type park, I hired in to Food Service. I was mostly in the cafeteria, where, when we had schools there, it was like being at a concert-that loud. I eventually transfered out of that department and into the village part. Much better, except when my boss put me in charge of crafts this past weekend. Since the crafts were in the cafeteria, you can guess how I was. Wanting to run and fast.

Janitor. Noone to talk back to, you can work your own hours and come in when noone is there, very hard job to mess up.