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I just plain have too many limitations... I can't handle stress due to my mental problems, I'm not fit enough for most jobs in my field, and I keep seeing "must be able to lift 50lbs" everywhere. Also I don't already have transportation and they don't like that... but I need a job to get it! Out of town jobs... tough to move if you don't have money!

I'm not sure what to do!

I have a lot of that too. Don't drive. Have a fear of being verbally abused at work due to a verbally abusive parent (who thankfully has gotten better) and a hope to get away from home, not go BACK to a situation like that as I am no longer willing (due to strain from long years of putting up with it) to put up with it anymore.

Also, I have a Bachelors in Computer Science and two Associates, so I look overqualified for much lower level stuff but don't have the experience enough for entry level jobs, and my gap since graduating is now over 2.5 years, making me nearly unemployable in my field (or so I fear). I live in a rural area so there aren't many jobs here except retail (not good for Aspergers), sales, CNA, truck driving, and a few other things I'm not the best at. Yet, as I live in Illinois, without some great increase in pay (no, $12/hr isn't going to cut it in Chicago or its suburbs), I'm stuck here.

It's not like I haven't tried. I've got about 11 full pages of jobs I've applied for within the past year or so (when I first started recording jobs that I applied for). One job per line, about 11 pages. Still no job.

Am now leaning toward self-employment as book writing. I did spend a lot of time, all through my younger years, keeping my imagination active. I kept it up through high school, even through university. I believe I kept my imagination alive when the system has killed it for most people.

Also, I am sensitive to sounds (so loud environments won't work) and appear to be heat, though not so much cold, sensitive. I know it's been that way all my life as my mom told me that I screamed as a baby when we lived in a place with no air condition. I know that jobs in the hot summer sun are not great for me, and I think my meds make my heat sensitivity worse.

I've had people tell me that I should be self employed but I am not sure what I would do. I have a background in environmental education and naturalist stuff but the thing is it turns out I'm really not that good at working with children. Biological jobs it turns out I'm not physically fit enough for most of them and I have to basically give up on every single job position I see posted. When I go to rehabilitation services they always want me to put me in this factory where its for disabled people but they get like a dollar an hour and that's ridiculous. I would probably be really good at leading people through the woods or nature hikes or something like that and pointing out wildlife and nature and birds and stuff but I'm not sure exactly where to get a job like that

Vocational rehab counsellors? They usually have resources that you can use to hel determine the sort of work you'd enjoy. Or tolerate.