adults here who have jobs and are settled in their career

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What do you do? How long have you been doing it for? I am a pipefitter. It is ok. The pay is pretty good. Work is so hard though... definitely hard to navigate socially. I have a BA in political science (I know, bad choice right? but too late). I would like to do something better someday! Being a pipefitter is dangerous and hard work, but it is the only card I have to play right now. I have been doing it for a year, I hope to be a journeyman by the time I am 30. I want to own a successful business or have some job that gives me social status and more money! I am single and have no kids, I don't drink or do drugs, I just work and try and get dates!

Your experience sounds similar to mine in some respects. My degree is in music.. but i work as a market analyst for an investment bank. Its not a job i enjoy but its a short term thing.. i do it to get the money together to finance the life i want in the future. My work environment is very masculine and agressive. The old work hard play hard mentality. Nothing wrong with it if you're into that.. but socially im a disaster so its hard graft for me. Im single and independant and dont expect that to change..so i dont worry too much about the dating scene.. just keep making my way to where i want to be.. which is.. a nice house on a plot of land where i can grow my veggies, keep a few chucks.. a place where i am free to be me.. but free by my own efforts. I know im different.. im just choosing to celebrate that as a good thing...
Jen

I have a mittful of degrees, two in math and two professional degrees. I am working as a professional in government. Good salary, good working conditions, neurodiversity aware employer. I am a lucky, lucky man.

Gimme your job! NOW! I'm sick of working at market basket, dealing with weird customers, and dealing with an immature manager who keeps insulting my bagging under his breath! I'm JEALOUS! YOU LUCKY STIFF!

Do you mind me asking the type of work you do?

I'm still trying to find my place in the workforce. I'm curious what other people do.

I work with IT, have been doing it for years, but now i've finally settled in and even got my own apartment too.

Its just that i had a hard time finding an employer that wasn't a total douche: forced me to wear a tie, dragged me away from my computer out to customers because "you have to be social", made racists remarks on parties, awarded consultants but not the people which did the actual job, and didn't offer flexible hours.

I seriously lucked out with my job. I'm a data analyst at Autistic Services, Inc. New Position. Still working on my degree, but the job and my degree path are sort of related. Seriously lucky. Before that, I was a pizza delivery driver. My boss was super awesome, but some of the managers weren't. I got to work on my driving skills, though. I basically waited a long time for the job I have now, and it was totally worth it.

I am a subject matter expert involved in First Nations treaty negotiations.

Does math(s) help with that? (I'm guessing "no".)

For some reason I have this idea that an investment bank would be a difficult environment for an aspie, but perhaps I'm wrong.
When were you diagnosed? Before or after you got the job?
Did you need to display any financial knowledge at interview?
What are the hours like?
And ... what markets do you analyse?

I do motion graphics, visual effects, still photo processing, a bit of web site development, some occasional photography, technical support, etc.

I'm a jack of all trades and like the saying goes, a master of none. I get easily bored, but I generally like doing work on computers so I have taught myself a lot about computer graphics. I work for a small company that cannot afford to hire a lot of experts in each of these fields but is happy to hire one guy who can do a good enough job in many related areas. If they need something particularly complex, they can hire a freelancer, but for most day to day work, my skills are quite adequate.

More to your point however, in just about every instance where I have moved from one job to another, I will often start thinking about what I need to do to change jobs as much as a few years in advance. For example, I used to run a computer controlled animation camera, but the television industry changed and I could see that work was drying up. When clients asked if I could do a particular effect, I determined how it was done (computer graphics) and set about learning those skills. It took over a year before I started getting work, but now I am well paid doing this sort of stuff.

I think the main thing that has helped me is that I will identify a problem and start working out the solution in my spare time over the course of months or years. I suppose I have more patience than some people. Maybe it's because I really hate new situations and if I can work through the problem slowly, I can mitigate much of the stress involved.

Math degree, consulting actuary. The 'work on fifty things at once' part of consulting fits my 'can't concentrate on one thing too long unless I'm interested' side (which makes the fact that I've passed all of these exams a bit odd), but I don't like client meetings.

Money's good, though.

For all practical purposes, I do secretarial work.

BA in Poli. Sci. and Mass Communications. JD (law school...chose not to practice). Had better jobs (case manager) but those ended because of internal politics and budget cuts. Current gig was only supposed to be for a couple years. That was 6 years ago.

Fortunately, I get along with who I work with. The work is something I have no issue doing.