What professions do you wish you can do but can't?

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Computer Science. My math skills are incredibly weak so it was never feasible for me to pursue it.

It would be nice if I could be a vet because I'm interested in helping wildlife, particularly. But it's way too late in life to go back to school and become one, so I content myself with just whatever I can do when I see an animal in trouble. I've been in a position to help out quite recently and that felt good.

IT consulting, or network administration. The educational requirements are too high, and my mental health state isn't suitable for such demanding work. Plus, I get burnt out really easily, and I HATE doing tech support over the phone, or with another person otherwise in my way.

I've always wanted to write science fiction. I've been told that I'm a good story teller, which I think is fair, but I'm bad at deception and understanding how two people can think about the same topic but have different beliefs. Not that I don't believe people can have different beliefs, I'm sure many people are already thinking about how to disagree with me right now. It's just that I'm bad at conceptualizing that, so my attempts at writing fiction are all driven by actions and things that happen, but not by how characters interact with one another.

I wanted to be in the military more than anything as a kid. I enlisted in the United States Navy when I was 20, and my recruiter said I could enlist with Aspergers and that I needed to say no when asked if I had any potentially disqualifying conditions. Halfway through basic training, I was having trouble keeping up (constant sensory overwhelmness) and one of my drill instructors thought I should get a mental evaluation. They twigged on Aspergers quick, told me that all forms of Autism are a permanently disqualifting condition for service in the Navy, and sent me home. With that on my record, I can't sign up for another branch, so I'm out of any chance for a military career.

Luckily, I found new passions. Fell into urban planning pretty hard (particularly transportation planning), and then geography (specifically Geographic Information Systems), and I'm going into my senior year at university right now (I'm double majoring in both subjects, so I have to do two senior years instead of one). I also have a pretty good part time gig in the alcoholic beverage department of a retail store. Thought retail wouldn't be for me with the Aspergers, but for some reason running a cash register doesn't really bother me, and I can talk to customers about what craft beer and whiskey they should buy for a very long time. I love drinking beer and whiskey, and I can talk a long time about things I love.

Fighter pilot. I had the fitness for it when i was around 18 but i was too tall so i had to give that up. I went for my other passion instead which is computers. Also wanted to be an astronomer, but i learned that it was more of a maths job than a "look at the skies and take pretty pictures"-job.

I guess I agree, even my non-autistic family and friends tell me that being in retail sucks.

If I were to graduate High School, say, next year, I would wanna study to become a Neuro-Psychiatrist, or a researcher (in Science), or work in some kind of forensics.

When I was a kid, I wanted to either be a singer / dancer / entertainer, or a Fashion Designer. In my teens, I wanted to be a teacher or nurse (teacher won-out).

My mother thought I should be a veterinarian; but, I didn't do it cuz I was intimidated by the math aspect----so, I became an engineer! Uh..... What?? LOL

I'm an artist - I have the creative type of autism. But unfortunately I'm pretty stupid and too poor to have access to a lot of what I need to be successful. People don't like me, I don't have any marketable skills, and maintaining even the most basic of jobs in a continuous struggle of self-hatred and believing I don't deserve to live.

I would trade all my art skills and both legs to be an IT or an engineer. Really good money, always have a job, automatic friends, a safe quiet workspace, people automatically understand what you're all about, just amazing.

I've always wanted to be either an astronaut or truck driver.

I hear the ads for truck drivers....and I feel the urge to apply.

My visual-spatial problems prevent both.

Anything musically inclined. Singing, songwriting, intrument playing, the technology side of music...... I have no sense of rhythm and I struggle to even clap the beat in church, so it is the one thing I wish I could do.

if i'm really shooting for the stars, i'd say martial arts teacher

it's one of the very few things that i can imagine that i would love to do if i could do it. the main reason why it's unrealistic (besides my age by now, since i have no training whatsoever) is the social aspect (which is why i don't have any training to begin with)

i used to have a love/hate relationship with music (moderate talent for it, but no discipline), but i'm over it

Computer programming: I am not very good with abstract thinking and I am not very creative

Video game tester: I hear you need to go to some tech school to work in this field

Actress: How do I start? I am too busy with raising kids so how will I act and take care of my kids? Plus I have a job so trying to get in a TV show or movie is very difficult and I wonder how people do their job and do acting at the same time?

Web design: Not very creative and you have to go to tech school for that too

Work with special ed kids: My anxiety keeps me from doing it because what if I screw up and make a mistake, I hate having punishments and consequences. And also I also hear you have to go to school to work in that field. Work as a teacher's aide, you need experience and then again what if I make a mistake and learn the hard way? I already got enough people mad at me already as a child and getting into trouble a lot as a child and being punished. Now I have anxiety from it.

Teacher: Same as above, what if I make a mistake and learn the hard way and get a consequence? Thanks media and the internet.

Published author: What if my story gets rejected? What if lot of people hate it? Plus I don't do demands. Too much stress and intense.

Plus throughout school I had a hard time with class assignments because it was all abstract and too hard so I needed my work modified. College is harder.

Pathologist.
Autopsies for homicides would be preferred.
I like a good mystery.