The Top 5 Worst Careers for people with Aspergers

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Disagree.

As a matter of fact, because aspies are subjected to alot of people who have mean traits, we learn more about them. At least I DID.

It's actually the NT's who are gullible enough to allow their heart strings and emotions to be pulled by compulsive liars.

Aspies make great teachers. I know of a couple.
Police officers? Maybe or maybe not. It really depends on what has happened in the aspie's life but WE'RE NOT THAT GULLIBLE.

Judge? Judges are supposed to care about justice and not be biased. That is something an aspie can do well. I see the real agenda here is to keep aspies out of jobs that others would like to keep corrupted. It's easier to bribe a judge who lacks a sense of justice and who is biased than one who is not.


On the contrary, I pick up deception before most people because I've learned the traits.

Prove it. You can't. How many times has an aspie pointed out discrepancies in someone's story based on facts and NT's came in to declare that aspie was out of line while the liar was defended? That's so rude! How cruel of you to question this poor person!

Football player
Insurance agent
Salesman
Politician
Lawyer

In no particular order... and I could probably think of a few more.

Regarding the suggestion of teacher as one of these, I might add that for a few weeks in school, my class prodded me into being their teacher after one of the students caused the existing teacher to quit in tears. Eveybody loved my simple, no BS explanations of things.

Almost all jobs I can think of are asipe-unfriendly in some respect or another.

Worst jobs for Aspies?
Politician
Soldier
Corporate Middle Management
White-collar Crime (because it requires a talent for decep[tion and lieing with a straight face, which few of us could do).
An Aspie would not make a good trial lawyer, but many of us have brilliant legal minds and can analyze legal decisions well, so would make good judges or legal researchers or appellate attorneys.

Best job for an Aspie? Zookeeper.

I can pretty much do any interaction that is script based, which means I say something that I'm supposed to say, and I get some pieces of information, and there's a structure to the interaction. As far as small talk and establishing rapport, I am not good at it, and don't enjoy it. I can fake it for a while, but find it extremely annoying to waste time I could be doing actual work. I could never do sales or face to face marketing. Customer service I can do, provided I don't have the authority to actually make any decisions and just relay information.

As far as working with coworkers, it can vary a great deal. If people stay focused on the task with a minimum of extraneous chit chit, it doesn't bother me. I also don't care about people chit chatting as long as they don't bother me personally doing my work. Unfortunately, being able to communicate information and divide up a task into different parts for different people is not generally considered enough to "fit in" to most workplaces. Personality conflicts are a problem as well. I'm perfectly content to simply ignore people I don't like and minimize my interactions with them, but the fact that I have no emotional reaction at all (or worse, I chuckle a bit) when people show hostility to me, tends to put people against me. Don't get me wrong, I always listen to the boss, but I don't really pay much attention to anyone else unless I actually like the person.

My worst careers would be..
1. Corporate management (middle or executive)
2. Entrepreneur (could have the talent and knowledge, but not the ability to build relationships with customers, advertisers, etc.)
3. Politician/fundraiser/lobbyist/etc.
4. Sales Rep
5. Therapist (for obvious reasons)

Same for me.

I've been told I would make a good politician.

"So, can you tell us when the new healthcare bill will come out?"
"Soon"
"Like when? Can you be any more specific?"
"Sometime in the near future."
"Well then, do you have any idea what it will contain?"
"Stuff"
"Alright then, well, here's Jeff with the weather report."

i think that the entrepreneur is one of the best choices, yes its true it is hard to make connections but this can be done online and it can be done in a way that stays online, it works great with oversees countries like china and india which have alot of potential.

but it is very limiting in getting contacts here, hiring people on the other hand would be one of the best things you can do. People will respect you and you will feel like you are king of the social world people always want to be around the boss and actually are glad you have social issues as it makes it easier for them to be friendly with you as you demand so little. though once they no longer work for you they do tend to disappear or they don't have the patients for you,

also it allows you to control your surroundings, hiring some one that can network for you may be a good step like a sales person. i didn't do this as i could never give such a level of trust to some one but if you know some one that has an interesting idea and wants to start a business you can finance them if you trust them not to take advantage or cut you out.

Keep in mind it is possible to work isolated from the rest of the world and still make money, you can market a service and sell clients to various contractors limiting communication as you have the client and that is the key/power.

the online world has allot of potential if some one is looking to start off cheap some where bloging about a topic and selling a service or product through giving free advice seems to be a recent trend as you can show up on search engines for free through the blog company. i have seen this allot on ezinarticles. I find when i want to research a topic that site pops up and some times it has good solid info you cnat find anywhere else, from there if you are willing to drop money in to what you are researching you are more likely to drop the money to the person that gave the info for free

Agreed. I trained as a teacher. I love teaching, but the job of "teacher" is crowd control. Very little actual teaching is done. I was very bad at crowd control, so my training was wasted.

I would make a good prime minister for Britain. Anybody's better that the a***hole we've got now (I hope you're reading this, you stupid twat!) Anybody's got more sense than him! What sort of prime minister claims the country is in debt, then cuts all the services for British people here in our own country, and gives it to other countries to bail them out, when the good people of his country are out of jobs and even homeless? I think an Aspie could do a better job at running this country, despite our lack of social skills.

Have you noticed that this is a typical response which follows every General Election, irrespective of the winner or the state of the country/economy?
The problem is the two-party system it's become, not the figurehead of the winning party.

(I'm not suggesting that the response is necessarily invalid; it's just that the whole system needs a rethink)

By lawyer, I don't think they mean litigator. Yes, an aspie would make a terrible lawyer, in that sense. However, the logic of law would be easy for an aspie to understand. I'm going to go to law school.

Why not work in middle management if you have the opportunity? You can &*ck $h*t up for others before your inevitable downsizing.

Then again, getting into middle mgmt. is easier said than done because most HR execs can smell an Aspie a mile away and hold very hostile attitudes towards the same.

I work with many mid-level managers. That position would lead to my destruction. Not only do they have to work with many different personality types for employees all day long, they do not have the authority to create or have input in policy. For the most part, they cannot discipline their employees without a conference with HR.


The other worse occupations I can think of:

1. Child care worker

2. Motivational Speaker

3. Defense Attorney

4. Receptionist/Administrative Assistant

Aspies may not make good trial judges where things are very personal, and they have to a practical understanding of the world and use intuition to weigh credibility and see through evidence tricks. But we would make outstanding appellate judges - whose job it is to analyze complicated legal issues and semantics over facts no longer in dispute.

I seem to be fitting into my office fine. Of course, I'm working in a federal regulatory agency. Our agency mandate from 1914 basically says we only hire nerds. In private practice, the best fields are IP law and Tax Law while the worst are corporate M&A at a large firm or litigation at a small trial firm.

Last edited by Tyri0n on 29 Jun 2013, 8:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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