The Top 5 Best BILL PAYING JOBS For People With Aspegers

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Most of those sound like they involve a lot of organizational skills... That's something I'm horrible at. Well, my biggest interest is reptiles, but I like other animals too. I just started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation place. I'm hoping that it will be a good reference in the future, especially if I want to get a job dealing with animals. A place like PetSmart would probably be ideal, because then I could be around reptiles and tell people information about them all day. There are only a couple of those around here though, and I haven't had luck getting a pet shop job yet.

These are the exact jobs the job centre are making me go for - specifically when I informed from of being AS they went from encouraging me to get my nursing degree (not an option, and even if it was I don't have a clue how to go about it and no one seems willing to tell me) to telling me I was only capable of check-out work, if that. Even now I have a disability adviser, who should know better, I'm still expected to apply for check-out work and not given any other options or support to do anything else.

Paying-the-bills type jobs...hhhmmm....

I would say not to rule out shop work, I'm actually looking for something like working in a gift card shop where contact with customers shouldn't be too intense (particularly in a larger store) and much of the work would be tidying the shop floor so with little contact with others and giving you chance to satisfy OCD tendencies. Same could be said of shelf stacking and night-shit work.

Administration - a hell of a general term that could include any number of jobs, I took this off my job seekers agreement for this reason as many admin jobs do mean things like team work and talking on the phone or dealing with customers that I can't do - however some admin jobs are great for aspies. It's like the isolation, repetitiveness, attention to detail, problem solving, of IT work only without the IT.

Warehouse or factory - my mother loved her factory job, so it's possibly not as bad as it sounds, it's repetitive and doesn't require team work or dealing with people or customers, and it pays the bills. Anything sort of factory or back-office would work for you, I'd imagine. I would also suggest caretaker or cleaning jobs too, not great but they pay the bills.

How about trade work? Tilling, painting and decorating, electrician, plumber, etc. - it's easy enough to train to do these, and although work can be lacking sometimes equally many people make a lot of money out of these sorts of jobs - you can just do work as a handyman, you can work for a larger company or start your own business. Most training places can help you actually get work once you're qualified, it can require talking to customers but not much more than a grunt and asking for a cup of tea/coffee, lol.

Taxidermist.

I wouldn't mind doing stuff like this, but if they're anything like the rest of the job market, I imagine it's very difficult to get into them if you don't have any training at all. And schooling can be pretty expensive if you don't have a decent financial base.

Stuff that for a game of darts.

I relate to these posts....I made a good living for many years as a freelance writer and magazine editor -- writing is one of my special interests, and the people contact is limited with clear boundaries and rules.....

Then I had a child and stopped for a decade, and am now in process of moving back into paying work....I have a new special interest of energy healing, which I am moving to integrate with my corporate skills.....It is challenging, but do-able, to move forward with this, in spite of many challenges of AS.

Some things that have helped me:

Involvement with 12 step programs to improve social skills, connections and learn to work with broader Universal energies, Higher Power. In Debtors Anonymous, 12 step money program, I learned how to have standards and not take jobs that are beneath my skills and gifts -- DESPITE my many other challenges. Having support from others makes a difference! for me, can make the difference between succeeding or not.

I also recently read The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide by Richard N. Bolles, the What Color is your Parachute guy, and he says that THE most successful way to find a job is starting with internal questions -- perfect way for me as an AS -- such as, What do I like to do, am good at? In the book, he has a whole series of questions which wll lead -- with 86 percent success -- to finding a GOOD job.

I am currently working through these questions -- another book of his, the What Color is your Parachute workbook, is also helpful in using this process. I got both books from the library.

There are MANY books now on working internally to find a job or new career path, and I just think they're wonderful for me, anyway.

Another book I love is The Pathfinder: How to CHoose or Change your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore. I find it a fascinating guide to how humans find their way through life and change for the better.....I am using the processes he outlines on many areas of my life.

Oh, also, once I started to have an idea of what business I wanted, I found a FREE business counselor who is guiding me every step of the way, which is EXTREMELY helpful in getting through the people issues with greater aplomb and to learn, step by step, a more prosperous way of thinking.

IT is a volunteer service run by the national Chamber of Commerce called SCORE.org.

Hope that helps!

Nancy

It depends.
My last job was working as administration and employment adviser in a place that trained guys in these sort of trades, we did privet courses but a lot were fed to us directly from the job centre and other organisations set-up to help people into work/careers - not sure what it's like where you live, but here even if not unemployed there are ways to get funding. It does really require training of some sort, but that's it.

I did waitressing in high school. I could not stand it and quit after several months.

I then did a co-op term in a medical research laboratory. I quite enjoyed that, and I could relate to my coworkers. I then completed an engineering degree in university and work in a small consulting firm. I enjoy my job a great deal.

I too would avoid obtaining a liberal arts degree.

Perhaps you could obtain a job which would pay your bills while you obtain additional education / training for a job which would better suit your personality.

Let's see....

My skills? Excellent research, critical thinking skills (which is why I did great GPA wise in college with useless liberal arts degrees!).
Great at organizing.

Cons:
-Not good at multi-tasking (better doing something one at a time)
-Gets uncomfortable communicating/interacting over extended times (can do it quite well 5-15 min per hour...but 30+ get overwhelmed).
-Not a visual learner or a quick learner....need things written, spelled out and learn methodically.

Basically I was a great GPA student because I had a nice, quiet atmosphere where I could read, study, and have a flexible schedule. I took social science classes because I could well in them (I also did well in math and accounting...but never pursued beyond intermediate level).
I struggled GREATLY with computers...because I do not learn things instinctively, I need to be able to write it down, absorb, memorize, and study.

Don't know where a guy like me can work...I envy you AS people who are gifted at IT and engineering.

Can you pursue a graduate degree in a particular field of the humanities? This is a paying position which it seems may work to your strengths.

Uh... my job in the computer industry pays the bills just fine...

Well bluecountry, I may sit and brainstorm for a night on this.

For now, to pay the bills, I'd say you need to find a job or two in growing industries (not ones floundering with this economy) so you'll have an easier time getting your foot in the door to land a paying job.

Industries that come to mind:
*Health care (particularly the growing Boomer geriatric sector, and the growing Autism sector)--as I write this I wonder if you've ever consulted the local Autism chapter of your region? They might have some ideas for you. Our local chapter has support groups for adults (including one for transitioning into the workforce) and FREE workshops/training seminars offered.
*Waste Treatment/recycling plants
*Cable & Satellite (you think you'd be poor on the phone with customers---though, they do have scripts to follow here, I think there may be other positions that you'd be good at).
*Business Consulting (critical think & organization skills do not necessarily come naturally to NT's)

I'll think of some concrete options for you based on your skill set. It may help to know what region of the country you're located in.

I had really bad experiences with the following carreers, even though the pay was (would have been) good:

Pharmacist
Physician
Lawyer
Dentist
Radiation Technologist

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What? You are so wrong.

Liberal arts degrees are very important if you want to go into any social field.

And I hate to break it to you "elitists", but there are more social jobs in the USA than you can shake a stick at. The government is by far the largest supplier of jobs, and many of these are the type of jobs that you will want a liberal arts degree for.

That's like saying an computer science degree is worthless. For 90% of jobs, yes it is!

C'mon, don't sound ignorant. The degrees are necessary for advancement in the humanities fields (of which "professors" are an extreme minority).

Hmm. That might have made more sense if it hadn't been preceded by:

No, it still makes sense.

A liberal arts degree isn't a "specific" degree.

"Within the context of a liberal arts degree, you can study modern languages, music, English, anthropology, history, women's studies, psychology, math, political science or many other disciplines."
(http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-ed ... -major.htm)

As such, there can be social jobs everywhere, but the poster you are referring to has a liberal arts degree in a field that isn't in high demand.

Also, sorry, "elitist" was a poor word choice on my part.

-Actually, I went back and re-read my post. It wasn't just the word "elitist". The whole post was accusatory. I'm sorry!