Rocky wrote:
ColdBlooded wrote:
My job at Wal-Mart has helped a lot. I talk to coworkers, and the interaction with customers is structured and mostly question/answer type stuff, so it gives me a sort of safe way to interact with people i think.
I also am in retail sales. My experience is similar to yours. When things get busy and I perceive that my job includes multitasking, I get stressed out. That can be counterproductive to becoming more social. These occasions are usually spaced apart enough that it is manageable. Otherwise, retail sales has helped a lot. The structured nature of it, I agree, is the key.
Yeah. Busy times are horrible. The city i live in is sort of small, so it's usually not that fast-paced as long as there are enough people working to take care of all the customers.. But the holidays can be pretty bad. When there have been crowds i've become overloaded a bunch of times and end up mentally disconnecting from it all and sort of shut down. I've had a few major meltdowns at work too, and i'm lucky that i haven't gotten fired for any of them. Despite that, i would actually highly recommend this kind of work to other aspies who need a job and want to get some social interaction within a more defined structure than usual(sort of like social "training wheels")... That is, as long as it's somewhere that is going to usually have a relaxed low to medium flow of customers.
I agree. Management also can make a big difference. I would recommend against cashier work, since you are not able to take a time out to de-compress as needed. Multitasking is usually part of that job. I can do it for short periods, but i would probably find a different position if I had to work the cash register for a full shift.
07 Jun 2010, 2:12 am
