What do you do for a living?

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I am an industrial chemist/physicist. Yes a well paid senior one - but NTs are driving me mad so I'm downshifting and - in a mark of respect to Warren Buffet - going to give a big donation to AS - HFA support charities.

Our time will come.

I'm a computer programmer/Linux sysadmin. Is this really surprising to anyone?

I am a college student but in the summer i work at an amusment park. it is a very noisey job at times but they usually let me work away from people unless they need me in those situation. they do not yet trust me on the computer possibly because of my dx ..

I've been working in a residential home for 4 male client with DD. I work an overnight shift so I dont usually get to overwhelmed with human contact and only have to work a few hours with another staff(even that is to much, as most of my fellow staff are pathilogically lazy and drive me insane with their illogical methods of doing things and their indifference to the clients individuality...aghhhhh)The clients themselves are great except for one who has OCD and is compelled to talk nonstop and wants to touch me alot.....this is creating alot of anxiety for me and I really want to leave my job,lately.

Befor that, I worked 8 years with teens who were DX MI/CD....but it was also an overnight shift, so most of my contact with them was one on one...not so overwhelming....then few hours in the morning which were noisy,stressful,chaos....but I could go home and destress.....the great thing about both groups of people as they seem to really like and accept me....weird,because when I was in school...highschoolers were brutal.

persoanally,at 42, Im a bit burned out by social services, but since psyc is my degree and 12 years of work history and I cant afford to go back to school...I really dont know what else to do....guess Im lucky to have a job...most places are so desperate for night shift workers....they put up with my "oddness",plus I really do have empathy (aspies not empathitic...I say Bahhh,to that)being an outsider makes you empathetic!

residential support worker--children with disabilities team 7 years.

Right now I'm trying to get a job at Wal-Mart, but soon I will be going to JU and major in accounting.

I'm a CNC Machinist/Programmer/TIG Welder for a Top Fuel Funny Car Team. I'm also a Cylinder Head Specialilist who does head porting and flow bench testing.

i'm a pro cook
But I am very interested in aspie issues and want to do more in the field

Right now I work in the marketing department for a healthcare company that does Workers Compensation for Insurance Companies and Lawyers...I research Workers Comp cases and assist our Marketing Reps. Other than the office politices BS which I can't stand and the crappy pay, I don't mind the job.

What I find so strange is that I have a BA in Public Relations which is completely not a good field for people with AS - just the hours alone are exhausting, but the good part is it qualifies me for a LOT of jobs, especially those that involve a lot of writing and/or research.

I'm an RN in a small short term psychiatric facility.

I'm working as an GSM cabinet assembler at Ericsson. I do not assemble the actual GSM cabinets they are shipping, but I put together the smaller parts that they consist of.

It's... Not my dream job but hey, it's only temporary!
It's a job where you assemble 20 to 40 of the same things every day for one week, then the next week you change to some another part of the cabinet that you assemble for one week. It can be magasines with circuit boards or just cables. This is job is just for saving money for my university studies..
...which probably will be medicine or physics engineering. I'm interested in both things and I haven't decided which one to go for yet

I also work with the developmentally disabled.... seems to be a trend.

Ive worked in many areas of life -- lots of physical work, even though im not really physically minded. I do alot of work on my own, and i actualy enjoy doing repetitive things...i just got a new job as a early morning cleaner at a Petrol/Fuel Service Station, i have a major in literature however and want to become a librarian.

Im no good working with people as i dislike how they interact with all their backstabbing, nitpicking and general stereotypical behaviour but i make friends pretty easily and i work extremely hard...I hate being told to do extra jobs and like the job to be perfectly outlined before hand. I also worked as a warehouse hand, and i got a promotion and ended up working my own hours completely alone in a warehouse and i still recall that job to be the best job i ever had. The worse being Shelf-stacking at Coles supermarket after finishing the warehouse job and having 15yrolds telling me how to do basic storage stuff!

God i wish i had of finished University!

I smell statistical anomoly here. There seem to be a disproportionate number of people working in healthcare answering here which is not what you would expect.

I think it's just that people who work in those role are likely to be aware of Asperger's and hence gravitate towards the site.

Aspies tend to do techie jobs- that it! On the other hand, it's nice to know that there are a good number of people on the site with health related skills and experience.

design engineer for medical equip. Monitors, ventilators, drug pumps, etc...

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