Work and autism

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what’s the best jobs for people on the spectrum

The ones that pay a living wage. Something outside the service industry, and requiring a STEM or HASS degree.

Being on the spectrum means you have difficulty interacting with people.

If you prep cars for painting you may only need to interact with your supervisor.
If you paint the cars you may need to interact with customers. Prepping may be better than painting for an
Aspie, even though painting pays more. Prepping cars for painting involves a lot of time spent with an inanimate object, the cars, and relatively little time interacting with the supervisor, who is busy painting and interacting with people.

Looking to realy up my gym work and protein levels this year to see what I can get from it. Going to go back to my 2017 & 2018 workouts but eat cleaner and build up to pushing heavier through the year.

Sounds good

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I'm kinda wondering if the OP was asking more about working 'in' as in working in a job... not working 'out' as in working out in the gym?
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But then... who am I to be interpreter for others when I don't always find it easy to interpret my own thoughts?

hahaha... you're so nice

I worked in a medical laboratory with an Aspie and they seemed to enjoy the science element of it... but had to work on the human aspect of it... as in... dealing with co-workers, patients and their family members, and the administration.
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I am an Adder, and found my own difficulties working for the medical organization.
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I would say that if you can find a discipline that stimulates your interest, allows you to work autonomously(or as close to full autonomy as possible), pays the bills, and acknowledges the rights and offers solid protections against discrimination... that's be the best.
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Try looking at what you feel your top difficulties are when out in public.
Is it eye-to-eye contact, verbal communication, sitting still, reading people's body language, or other?
Are you strong in math, chemistry, biology, art?
Can you deal with the public in a detached setting.. like... over the phone?
I suppose I'm working towards asking you what is a subject you can keep your interest up with, that also shows up in the work world?
Also, in what setting can you imagine yourself being the most comfortable and productive?
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Answer those and perhaps you will be able to find jobs that match those specifics, even if just closely and not exactly.
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Personally, the biggest difficulty for me is in dealing with administrative knuckleheads.
I'm more of a person who will say to my boss or the chief person of wherever I'm working, "Logically this makes no good sense! It's stupid, inefficient, and I'm not interested in wasting my time like that!"
Mostly then I wind up quitting, although there have been a handful of times I've been fired as well.
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Right now... I drive a city bus.
I have routes to follow.
I have times to target in reaching those bus stops (but my boss isn't all on our case about being there exactly on time... which in real life isn't physically possible anyway).
I have set fares to charge riders.
I have momentary contact with riders and I can choose to go beyond, "Hello. Are you paying for a one-way ride or a day pass?", if I so choose.
I have NUMEROUS things to pay attention to while driving... the steering of the bus, the speed, the passengers inside, the temperature inside, the pedestrians/skateboarders/bicycle riders/drivers outside the bus, stop signs and traffic lights, parked cars, the weather, the pretty skies, the cool sticker on the car I just passed, the person carrying what looks like delicious food, the homeless person talking to ghosts, the murmuration of the birds in the field, and other stuff... which suits my ADHD brain so well!
I can sit up front and sing songs to myself, tap my fingers, rock forward and back in my seat because I have to see around all the blind spots to ensure I don't run anyone over when turning.
Basically... at this point in my life... it's the best job I've ever had! The most fun... for sure!
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Medical work was good in some respects... too taxing in others.
In my EMS days, I enjoyed the mechanical and logical nature of traumatic injuries! I wasn't so keen on medical issues, whose symptoms might be the same as a number of other issues.
I wasn't good at being the overly compassionate individual in regards to someone else's pain or loss. I mean.. I cared.. I just was never the pat-them-on-the-shoulder, "Here here now... we're going to help make everything better!" type of person.
Death to me has always been a fact of life... I'm only good for a certain amount of emotional support over someone losing a loved one, then it starts feeling like I'm just mimicking what everyone else is doing.
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I've had over 50 jobs since I was 8 yrs old.
A few of them were in the same field or were the exact same type of job, just different companies.
Medical, construction, labor, sales... working for others mostly, but a few times for myself.
I still can't figure out what I want to do when I grow up!
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I've known an Aspie who was a librarian.
She seemed to enjoy the job.
I'm positive it had it's difficulties for her as well.
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At 59 years old and passed the 50-job threshold... I just want to close with...
I found that I suffered mostly when I was in a field or a job that I took because someone else to me I should because, "It's a great job with great benefits!", or "The pay is great!"
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I can see many jobs where I worked under stress that was not healthy, and the so-called benefits of the job didn't really offset the harm this stress was doing to my physical and mental being.
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I found I excel in jobs where I can work by myself, mostly, or with one or two people that I really relate well with... in the workplace, not socially speaking.
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I found I do my best work in jobs where the overall workplace structure, the workflow, the administrative mindset, is geared to more logical thinking than emotional.
That's been a tough one for me to find over all the jobs and years I've been working.
When decisions and workflow starts being dictated to me in an illogical manner... I start getting frustrated. I resist and pushback. I talk back. I quit or get fired.
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Hey whaddyaknow?
My first day back here at WP and I'm back to posting like I used to... in novella form!

What you mean I’m so nice lol and I meant work as in a job not working out lol

hahaha
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I meant your reply was nice, considering Alabama replied totally off-topic (I figure it was meant for the thread regarding workout routines).

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Not that Alabama's reply warranted a negative response from anyone!

I graduated college over 10 years ago and never had a job ever and I mooch off welfare. I claim I got Aspergers on my resume. I claim I am looking for a decent paying job that makes it worth getting out of bed and is a job that I enjoy doing.
I have no idea what job I want to do because I have no direction in life.
Aspergers is the sole reason I have never had a job and am the way I am.
Without Aspergers I know I may have been able to achieve great things in life.