Gardening a good job for some Aspies?

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http://www.estate-landscape.com/jobs-descriptions.html
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Someone mentioned that at one time, every hospital had a gardener. The last time I was at a hospital, I realized that they could certainly use one, as their roses look much worse then the ones in my garden.

If Trump wins the election, one might see a lot more rich people who want to flaunt their wealth--they will need to hire gardeners to keep their huge lawns and gardens looking good!

While I have no personal experience of that line of work, I can only guess that it seems like it may very well be a good job for some aspies, at least it seems so.

I imagine most of the work can be done in solitude, and once you know what tasks you need to line up, you just get on with them. There's probably nobody looking over your shoulder all that much, and if you're self employed you just have to deal with individuals, and if someone's a difficult client, quit.

For some people, weeding can be boring. I can use it to recharge after a long hard day at work. It can be a major selling point--weeding is much better than using dangerous herbicides--in some places like Ontario using those dangerous chemicals is banned.

The accurate long term memory of an Aspie can be quite useful for remembering exactly what conditions different plants need to thrive.

There are many tasks in all kinds of activities or jobs, such as a task like hand-weeding, that some people find boring and other people find actually soothing, or relaxing; that's the wonderful thing about how everyone's different in all kinds of ways.

I wouldn't mind being a gardener myself except I have never seemed to have a talent for it.

I have two left thumbs! I suck at gardening.

A lot of people suck at gardening--which is why an Aspie with poor social skills may be able to hold an estate job purely on his ability to grow plants.

The only plant-life that has ever happily survived my attentions have been those golden pothos houseplants you can get at many stores, even Target. Those things are so forgiving to the inept person who doesn't have green thumbs!

I really miss them -- you can get them anywhere in the US but Britain seems not to have any quite the same as the ones I liked.

My dad was naturally gifted as a weekend warrior gardener -- we always had lovely roses blooming and all kinds of things growing and being tended by him.

I can pretty much tell you all about this job, although the Gardener job title is not used in the US. That is probably why they link to a UK organization instead of a US one. They are also being sneaky by adding trimming, pruning, etc. which are actually Arborist duties and Colorado like other states, requires a license to do arborist work. If you are just working as the landscape or grounds worker, then this is an unskilled position and you are mostly doing the clean-up. I can really go on and on about it, do you have specific questions?