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The board title said it all:

When you grow up you'll be put in a container called a cubicle. The bleak oppressiveness will warp your spine and destroy your capacity to feel joy. Luckily you'll have a boss like me to motivate you with something called fear. Discuss work and your job in this forum!

I would love to work in a cubicle, minus the boss who motivates with fear. Think about it, cubical walls offer privacy so you can work without being glared at. You get a cushioned chair and A/C. As long as the work load is light its the perfect job.

The main drawback has to be sitting in one place for hours on end. That could drive you nuts if the work is repetitive.

How does an Aspie get that type of work anyways? It seems to me that working in an office environment requires good communication skills.


The only work I've ever been able to get is unskilled labor. Jobs that require you to work under the broiling sun or out in the freezing cold. Jobs that are loud and dusty. Jobs that pay like crap.

heh my communication skills are, mmm, ok.. I have a lot of trouble expressing new ideas or thoughts to other people and thats one of my main setbacks. Ive been lucky to get a few jobs mostly in office work based on my skills but to be perfectly honest with you im unemployed at the moment.

I have to agree with the walls the privacy is nice but generally there's a partition between every second person in most office settings, although it seems common for the co-ordinator through management start getting their own cubicles through to their own rooms. I kind of hate sharing a desk with someone and having people so close to me.... also theres a trend now to go with shorter partitions to create an "open" feel to the office, which honestly does work but the end result is everyone peering over the partitions at each other all day.

Office work is hard, and not because of the work. The little office politics, games, rumormill and the godawful beaucratic processes... I cant keep up with it... stresss! Ive been applying for manual jobs lately but I think my working reputation is too badly damage at the moment, no ones calling me back for interviews.

Oh and the motivation by fear thing, is that common to all work places because almost every job Ive had after a few months the bosses start making me feel like every encounter could lead to being fired.

Apparently im not done whining yet, i was reading another forum made me realise one of the absolute worst things Ive found about working.. time.

Ive always known my concept of time was a little off, im able to know the time by events but Ive never been able to track it myself, in the office this kills me. I'll be sitting there for what feels like hours, look up to the clock and see only a few minutes have passed. At the end of some days I feel as if its the end of an epic journey. I dont know how to explain the pain I feel inside trapped inside a cubicle.

I remember once coining the phrase flourecent hell, the way those beady flurecent lights flicker incesintly above your head casting perverted shadows.. one of my best ever drawings (rare thing for me to draw and end up with something that looks how I intended) was on a postit note, an in perspective drawing of my first ever flourescent hell.

Oh the flickering

I don't think I could every work in a cube farm. I am self employed as a small home improvement contractor sure in the summer its hot and the winter its cold but I have a lot of freedom in when and what I do. Around here in Ct everybody wants to work in an office though which is fine by me espeially on nice days

I like my stay-at-home job: educating children.