Suggested/Not suggested Jobs for Aspergers.

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it might cause the Aspie to explode like a volcanoe.

update: after my mom died, I only got 5 day bereavment time and had a full on melt down which, over a year later, I still haven't recovered from. I quit the call center 2 weeks after returning from leave, and haven't been able to keep a job since. I seem to have lost alot of my adaptive abilities and can barely leave the house these days. Word of advice folks, if you can barely stand your job on a good day, FIND A DIFFERENT JOB! Don't wait until you break....the recovery process isn't worth it!

Was as a math tutor. I got to work one-on-one with students who desperately wanted to figure things out. I have a knack of figuring out why other people can't figure out things, so when they got tripped up, they could come to me. As a word of caution though, after teaching at one college learning center for a year and a half, I tried to pick up some hours at another college. At the other college, students expected their tutors to do their problems for them, and teachers got offended if we taught things that weren't in the textbook. During one particular week, I wouldn't tell a student what 6x10 was and I explained to another student the practical applications of the parabola so a the student and the professor who overheard complained so I was kicked out. Thankfully, I was able to increase my hours at the other college.

I could probably have done that job forever but there wasn't enough money to live on. College education (at the community college level) is all about cutting costs these days.

I'm a substitute teacher; subbing is stressful, it's very unpredictable but I love teaching particularly the younger kids. I don't think I'd want to teach General Ed though, at least not permanently. I'm going into special ed, hoping to end up in an ABA classroom with a small class size and highly structured environment. While getting along with co-workers is still an issue, I've found that people who work in special ed are usually a bit more tolerant of differences and a bit less gossipy (not always, unfortunately).

I think that a job where you work with one or two people at once, like a babysitting or a personal support worker, are good jobs for people with ASD. Also, teaching can be overwhelming, but I think it is less so if you manage to become a teacher in an ASD classroom. I say so because I know one woman on the spectrum who teaches such a class and, as far as I know, it is going well for her.

My special interest is autism and I would like to work with autistic kids in the future. I could learn ABA and work in ABA-based classrooms or programs. I want to become an occupational therapist. However, one thing I will not do is IBI... I despise it greatly. Right now, I'm looking into either being a camp counsellor for special needs or being a babysitter for a special needs child. A lot of people with ASD like to help others, so the careers listed in the document might not be something they would enjoy doing. Temple Grandin says that the most successful and happy autistics she has met are the ones who found a job they enjoy doing. While I might be good at some jobs listed, I doubt I would enjoy it because I do have a strong drive to meaningfully interact with people. I am also allergic to any form of chit-chat.

You're right. Working in an environment where I've got to deal with people all day would stress me out big time, because I am not wired to work as a customer service advisor at all. I've got practice by doing plenty of work experiences and voluntary work in retail environments and I've now come to realise that I haven't gotten any better at it, in fact it's made me feel even more unconfident with the public to the point where I want to jump on to something new that is more suitable for me and requires less social interaction with the public. And anyway, employers aren't going to want to take on a socially phobic Aspie to work with the public when I'm in compitition with about 10 NTs going for the job who have got naturally good social skills. It'd be like somebody with permanent back problems expecting to get a job doing lots of heavy lifting, where they could have more chance getting a job which requires more sitting rather than doing physical work.

For once I have learned that people tend to want to use me to haggle, because they know I am a kind-looking mug who will let customers get away with murder, simply because I already have trouble with the word ''no''.

LOL. It's sounded like such a dream job...

If you can get a job doing this with or without Asperger's we tend to make excellent historians. Many of my professors clearly seemed to have Aspie qualities if they didn't have Asperger's itself. Being a good historian requires some of the same skills computer programmers have.

Historian or subject-matter expert would be a perfect fit.

Add librarian to the mix, but be careful: if your Master's doesn't come from an ALA-accredited school, you might as well not exist (it's all political backstabbing.)

This. Stay as far away as possible from Subway. It was the worst job I ever had.

I got stuck in a business related job I don't care too much for, and now I'm looking to start looking for music jobs again. I was wondering if you could share more of your experience on teaching music and music related jobs you've had? I was also wondering if you think doing private lessons might work for someone with aspergers as opposed to group or classroom settings?

As someone who loves computers, technology, music, lights and working in a structured environment, I would say a Roadie/Event Engineer is on the recommended list.

yes, there ARE hundreds or thousands of people at a live event, but i'm not having to interact with them or even go near them. i work with a maximum of 50~ish people, although only with a few of them at any one given time.

You turn up to the site office at 8am. change into your workwear, have your cup of tea/Berocca and start moving marquees and staging into place. then you install speakers and lighting trusses. then the lights themselves. then a ton of cabling. then you do some lighting programming. then you set the instruments up onstage. then you do some line checking. during the gig you might also do some photography or film work. then you pack away at the end of the night, in reverse order that you set it up. then you get to bed at 2am. repeat

there's usually more time than you actually need to set an event up, so if i need to go for a walk i can - without having to ask - although i'm usually walking around outside anyway

Heres an obvious 1 to avoid. Everything in the service industry. Well made that mistake but I was not seeking a serious job at the time. It was 11 months of torture which Im glad to end because now whenever I get social anxiety issues that shut down my communication, at least I can put my headphones on and zone everyone out while I do my work on the computer. In the service industry, your so screwed. And everytime u get more SA, you keep screwing yourself even further and further.

Housekeeping is a pretty good job for me. The job is very laid back and non-stressful, and there is almost no social interaction involved.

The worst job I ever had was in a bakery. I never thought people would be so emotional about cakes...

If you've got the aptitude/interest for it, I would strongly suggest programming of some sort. I have a sort of half programming/half graphic design job and have come to understand that many office-dwellers expect anyone with a job description that includes more than one programming language to be a little odd.