autism and jobs ..ASPIES ONLY ! !! !

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All jobs are hard for aspies because they require some amount of ass-kissing to keep your customers / bosses with you. The only solution is to try and find a job that requires the least possible amount of this kind of politics to survive.

I should have been an accountant or a librarian. Instead I ended up as a Local Government investigator/law enforcer (lots of dealing with other people, having to apply knowledge to new situations, having to be organised... all the stuff i am bad at!)

My absolutely ideal perfect job would be an examiner, i.e. setting & marking exam papers on maths or accountancy.

Creativity, attention to detail & working with numbers, all in the same job! & it doesn't require much social interaction either.

However, as I understand it, to do this you have to have been a teacher first.

As for your avatar, I agree with the general opinion - by all means keep the picture, but please stop the flickering! It makes me feel ill to look at it, & my eyes have gone funny.

Actually, it seriously could set off a fit if an eplileptic person looked at it - I'm sure you wouldn't want to do that to someone?

It's mentioned by others already, but I'm quite happy with my job writing web-apps (or other software)
People are nice in this area, there are quite some jobs available if you have the skills, not too much social interaction (just enough to give you some training) and people seem to be used to Aspies...

PS: that blinking frame around you avatar is a pain...

Im going to be a photographer.
I can do what I want when I want. I will go all over the world to the most beautiful, quietest places and take some of the most amazing pictures ever seen.

I've also just met a woman whose a self taught glass maker with two Aspie children who is so so nice and she has really inspired me so I might be a glass maker otherwise.

Whatever I do I will do it on my own, im not going to be employed by others.

Thats really really unkind.
A lot of people on here have problems with their senses, everyone's tried to be helpful, you could at least show a little courtesy.

they must be convicted that it really hurts .. but hey didnt care when they said i'm a bad person just have a look

hiunikel wrote:

Dokken wrote:

ouinon wrote:

Don't know if you realise, hiunikel, but the high-speed high-illumination flickering on your avatar is seriously unpleasant.

I agree

what can you read in my avatar ? .. TELL ME?

To me it says you're angry and want to hurt people. The flickering hurts my eyes. And I'm not to happy at being shouted at either. We're not your enemies - do you really mean to go after us? Please remove the flickering.

It was one person who said this - not the whole forum!

The rest of us asked you nicely.

You are lucky if the flickering doesn't bother you - I wish it didn't bother me.

But it does.

For the record, I didn't think you were doing it to be aggressive - I thought you were just oblivious to the fact that other people may have issues that you do not.

That's OK - it's an Aspie trait that most of us are guilty of.

But not putting things right even when you do know that you are causing a problem is something else. That is when you become in danger of proving Anemone right.

They didn't say you were a bad person, they were answering your question, they said your avatar seems to say that you are angry and that you want to hurt people. Not that you are and that you do.
I think its just a misunderstanding.

If you just use this instead then it still represents what you want which no one has a problem with what so ever, and it won't hurt anyone else.

Everyone is happy

hiunikel, you pm'd me, and I replied. If you want, go ahead and repost my reply here, and then I can post what you said back again.

You asked what your avatar said about you and I gave my opinion. I don't know you, so all I can comment on is the impression your avatar makes. It's not making a good impression.

As far as jobs go, here's something to think about. Hans Eysenck did research on creativity and genius. One thing he noted was that creative scientists tended to be low in neuroticism (a scale on the big three and the big five) but that creative artists tend to be high in neuroticism. Autistic people seem to be creative types, and perhaps would find this division useful. So if you want a direction to go in: arts vs technology, ask yourself - are you high or low in neuroticism (emotional vs on the cool side)? If you're on the cool side, go with techonology; if you're on the emotional side, go with the arts.

... you really cozed me a headach

now ..i knowthat people views depends .. that you don't know me ... and you start to offend me and steriotyping me

i realy don't have any bad intention toward you .. but if you can't say a beautiful word you'de better not to talk

bye

You do not need a degree to get into computers. There are a lot of entry level jobs that dont require anything (like help desks). Although these days a lot of the entry level jobs are getting outsourced. It is very easy to quickly move up on your own. It is one of the few fields where it tends to be more important if you can do the work then if you have the proper "training". I have no formal higher education and had never touched a pc before I got my first help desk position. Within three years I held a position that said it required a masters degree in the job requirements.