How many of you actually have a paid job you enjoy?

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I might appear a bit rude and direct, but to be honest: I do not get most of the 20, 30 (or 40?) year-old 'aspies' still living with their parents, and/or not using their possibilities.

To put it blunt: I did leave the house at age 20, while still studying, I have worked most of the time since 1995, sometimes with some help by therapists, other times motivating myself.

Most of that time i have put effort in keeping myself at work, making my own income, keeping my freedom.

What about you?

I have one now. I work from home, tutoring students over the internet. It's ideal!

Every other job has sucked.

I used to enjoy my job, but now I'm bored, and I totally disagree with my organization's direction, which doesn't help.

I'm looking elsewhere...

I used to. Till I encountered some office politics recently.

at work all I say is how can i help you and are you all set with your tray but I like it as I get to practice small talk with nice people and just stick to work related short talk with those who are not.

I work to live, I don't live to work... I need the cash, don't necessarily enjoy it though, just have to.

And there are loads of NT men out there still living with their mums. Women as well, more of a culture shift rather than anything. In the old days people got married and moved out. Nowadays people stay single longer and the cost of living alone even renting is sky high, so most don't have that much choice

My brother moved out aged 29 but still takes his laundry home occasionally

I enjoy my job, but I would like to fly cargo planes for a living one day.

I love my job and my income slightly exceeds the price of the things I need to be comfortable. Finding a job that lets me make money with my obsessions is the key to my happiness. Most of the time I feel like I am goofing off, but everyone at work is happy because I make the company a lot more money than they pay me.
I feel safe at work for the most part because coworkers ignore or expect my quirks as part of my personality. Once or twice I heard them tell new people to be nice and tolerate me until they get to know me.

I used to have a job that I loved doing, when I worked in the stockroom during the afternoon at the Target in Casper, WY. Almost no interaction with the general public, and I pretty much spent the whole time by myself, listening to music while basically getting paid to work out. The only interactions I had with people was with management (which loved me since I did my job so well), and the younger seasonal employees (which contained quite a lot of attractive gals). Then, I transferred to Albany, OR when I started up at Oregon State University, to a store that had revolving door style management that screwed me out of a lot of money. "Hey, you're the best stockroom employee we have, but we're only going to pay you ten cents an hour above starting wage. Even though there are people that do a fifth of the work you do yet get paid three dollars an hour more."

Mine is sort of a love hate relationship. I work from home which has numerous benefits (the fact that I am at work right now, sitting in my flannel pants and sweatshirt is one )

I work in IT, which is usually interesting and challenging. My boss feels that I do my job very well, and so do my co-workers. Multiple times a day my co-workers come to me with problems that they themselves cannot resolve.

The downside is that I don't play "corperate" very well.

There have been emails that I have sent out that did not go over so well. What I saw as straight forward and factual was taken as harsh and condecending (apparently I don't sugar coat things well).

When I have interviewed for other positions in the company, I have been told that I did well on the technical portion, but lost a lot of points because of "eye contact".