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I thought all jobs were selling your soul and enduring torture for a pittance.

I think that due to the amount of time spent at work you should try and find some pleasure in it.

I have a varied work history:
Mechanical engineer
Welding/fabricating and carpentry
Rigger and steelwork erector
Sailor and ships carpenter
Bicycle mechanic and instructor
And a few years traveling around, mostly agriculture, construction and restaurant kitchen staff

Currently rebuilding my partners house.

Full time IT System Administrator (one man band at my current job) it is what I have always done.

Health Physicist since October 2012.
This is the 2nd best job I've ever had (and I've had a ton of different jobs). I do mostly regulatory paperwork, calibrating and using detectors and instrumentation, performing in depth calculations, jandling radioactive material, and some auditing, so the required social interaction is almost nil.

The only job I enjoyed more was working at a print shop as a press operator and darkroom worker (plenty to do and no one to talk to). I would probably still work there if Kinko's hadn't opened up 2 buildings down and put us out of business.

Like a lot of folks here I've had a varied career.

-Telecomms engineer in the army
-In charge of security staff on a holiday park (HATED that but I'd just left the army and it was an "any job that pays money will do for now situation", we do what we gotta do to pay the bills)

Nowadays I'm a paramedic, been doing that for about 15 years. Mostly I love it, though occasionally the socialising side of it gets too much. Plus some people confuse the hell out of me. Some of them are my colleagues. But hey ho, it does me fine, and things have gotten easier since my diagnosis. I made the decision to basically go public about my condition, so don't tend to upset people as much now. They are much more straightforward with me now. Then again, would be a rather bad show if a bunch of medical people couldn't get thier heads around how to deal with an Aspie in their midst...

I didn't vote, because my wife and I run our own business, so I'm self-employed (avocado ranch in California). In the past, I was an electronics technician; worked for 20 years for a TV repair shop, and then split part time there plus part time in the test lab at an electronics engineering firm. The electronics field is fun for me, but it no longer offers any kind of really decent security in income or future, so I chose to leave it for more security and control of my future.

I work best alone, which was fine in the type of regular jobs I've had, but I'd fail fast at a "team work" job.

Charles

It's not bragging if it's true.

Lone IT at a large warehouse that sells different things through online retailers. 70% System Admin, 30% fixing critical hardware failures such as changing paper in a printer, or plugging a co-worker's USB mouse fully in.

Shipper Receiver in the parts department at a heavy duty truck dealership. I work alone most of the time. I work full time plus overtime and bonuses to boot. The pay and benefits are really good.I also drive the forklifts and help the parts technicians pick their parts and do their cores. I do all the warehousing stuff while the parts guys plug away selling parts on the phone and email.

im a kitchenhand and enjoy the work but hate the place im at but feel stuck becuase i need a job and not good at finding a new or better place to work

I have part time jobs here and there but otherwise I am unemployed. Not so sad about that fact, though, maybe when I am 30 without a job I would be more sad about it

I guess theres also a certain age where you are forced to leave parents home and live on your own, but I probably havent reached that age yet

I have had a variety of jobs over the years. Some of them I enjoyed, but I left all of them due to finding them extremely stressful. Currently, I work for a non-profit agency that serves people with developmental disabilities (including autism). I love my job.

I am a writer and editor by trade; I currently work for a technology publication. It's not a bad line of work, but it can be frustrating at times, and I'm growing tired of the tech industry.

Or telling someone that their screen is fine - its the computer that is playing up did that sort of job for a few years, and ended up hating computers for a while LOL.

I've spent most of my life self employed though, so didn't vote. Being self employed enables me to control the stress levels better, if work is overloading me, I just take a break!

I don't earn much but that's ok My life is much happier these days because of my more relaxed lifestyle.

I program and operate CNC Lathes. Aside from being around some very touch happy people, I wouldn't want to do anything else. The pay is good and the machines are like a mental playground for me