The job I'm in now is rather Aspie-friendly in my opinion. I work as a bus-cleaner at a local bus depot, and I do enjoy it. It's a rather laid-back place, not too much pressure, not too much multitasking, not too much social interaction (well I do like interacting with my coworkers but if you don't then you don't have to), you are self-sufficient (not bossed around too much, once you know where everything is and how the system works you can kind of be your own boss, and if you're unsure then you can always ask someone), not too many rules that overwhelm you, and the work is easy, predictable and repetitive, and buses are rather nice things to clean because you are not cleaning around people, and once you've cleaned a bus you've got nobody to make a mess after you, as the next time the bus will be in use is the next day. Ignore the stereotypes about buses always being dirty with puke to clean up. Finding puke on a bus is actually rare where I work. The worst I find is gum stuck to the floor or the back of seats.
But besides cleaning buses, I'd like to work somewhere where you sort out donations, except you get paid (unlike charity work). There are bins where you can donate things like toys, ornaments, books, etc, and they get sent to different places like homeless shelters, hospitals, and poor countries, etc. Somebody has to sort them out somewhere, and I'd like to do that. Imagine having a desk in a small room with a window facing the street or fields, with a small friendly group of coworkers to chat to, as you sort through bags of all different stuff people have thrown away, not knowing what you might find. And there's no deadline to get X amount of bags sorted, as bags come in all the time and you just sort through as many as you can until your shift ends.
Or I'd like to work in a shop selling teddy bears and other soft toys.
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30 Jul 2018, 4:13 pm
