Do you work in a full time job? (poll)

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No, not because of my disability but because my schedule at this point does not allow for a full-time position.

I work about 10 hours of paid work and about 20-30 hours of studying/volunteer work per week.

That's the life of a typical student working toward grad school (the volunteering is research-related for grad school references; other volunteer stuff is thesis work).

That sounds fun. Lol, I hope it goes well!
I'm most excited for the library, but I also applied at a few stores, and my sister said she would talk to her boss. I took a few semesters of college classes in high school. Accounting and some other class, I have the transcript somewhere. She said maybe, but I don't have the work experience that they're asking for. My HIT professor works at a hospital now, and she said I could use her as a reference for housekeeping there.
I just have to make it through the interviews. lol

I think the library's more your speed. I hope you get that!

Considering some recent postings - I thought it might be appropriate to resurrect this poll.

I work full time as a teacher.

I have been consistently employed sing 1995 and don't think that Asperger's has held me back from doing so. I've had difficulty advancing, but I'm rather good at what I do!

I work at least 50 hours a week but because I am self employed my hours aren't very regular. There is no work schedule, I'm always on call. This is because I do tax consultations to help people pay estimate taxes every quarter and prepare everyone's 1040 (federal tax return) at the beginning of the year, piano tuning, irrigation, lumber work, give music lessons, and I do a variety of charity work.

I've never really had one "career" choice but my working career has been fulfilling thus far, I would really suggest learning how to do a variety of things without needing an employer for other people on the spectrum. Being self employed is more simple than you'd think, there are all kinds of things you can get certifications for now online and it is becoming easier and easier to market yourself online and through the phone book, newspaper ads, etc.

I would especially suggest that anyone on the spectrum struggling to be more financially independent should try preparing taxes. Everyone else felt bogged down by learning the tax system but I actually found it fun and when I do people's taxes it doesn't require much in the way of social skills at all aside from being patient with people who want to put something on their tax return that they can't.

Sometimes I just have to calmly tell someone that I can't include this or that person as a dependent or they or not eligible this tax credit, something is fishy with their W-2 form, or I don't even have to say anything I'll just take some notes and finish doing their return without sending it to the IRS. About as confrontational as you'd ever need to be is saying "well, I can't do that because I might have to pay a fine and the IRS will just send that form right back to you with a not so nice letter" and they go on their not so merry way.

Most of the time however I enjoy the job because people give me all these different receipts and forms and I just breeze through it. I get to take away their headache and all that stuff is simple as mud to me, just a bit of number crunching and remembering bits of tax code that I have on hand the whole time anyways if I need to refer back to something. This is why people keep coming back to me. Instead of preparing a return themselves and being frustrated to no end they can just hand me their stack of papers and watch me work my ASD magic. As long as you can remember enough tax code, are good with a calculator, and can ask a series of questions that you already know beforehand (and will probably ask tons of times before tax season is over) then you can prepare taxes.

And if you really like it you can try and find employment as a tax consultant during the rest of the year, primarily helping self employed people to pay their estimate taxes and just giving people advice about property taxes, ordinary and qualified dividends, capital gains, what they must do during the year to qualify for tax credits, what they need to do when they give to charity in order to deduct that amount from their taxable income, etc. It can also be pretty lucrative folks, and I can't remember the last time I had to stammer through an interview because I get to call my own shots.

Nope, not because of disability but because my existing part-time student schedule doesn't allow for it.

I am out of work and has been since 2008, where I had 6 months as an office assistant. Before that, I had been out of work for years. Wrong age and wrong background.
In my CV I have, besides years of musical education and some years as a music teacher, listed a lot of short lived jobs of different nature, - but nothing stable, - and it has a lot to do with my having Aspergers.
I just never knew that, so I felt very lousy.
I simply never knew, what went wrong. It just did.

Right now, at 61, I really don´t see lots of jobs waving at me, and I have some physical things too, so my dream scenario is to be left alone with freedom to take up music and go on teaching.

I worked part time & full time in the past but I have physical disabilities in addition to Aspergers that make finding & maintaining a job difficult. I'm not currently looking due to making some changes in life & wanting to be there for my girlfriend more because she's dealing with anxiety & depression issues. I do want to work again at some point or maybe volunteer somewhere but I'm not ready to yet. I'm on disability.

Have been working full time for 25 years. Started out as self-employed for 3 years, then tried employment, working in the software technology sector for established vendors, start-ups, and for multi-nationals. Got laid off once together with 150 others, and could never comprehend the "normal" way software products get cobbled together, which is nicely summed up by Ted Nelson http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TC ... iners.html.

After 8 years was incapable of taking in any further nonsense and started my own business. Spent many months and years chasing down dead ends, got conned by an investor, but never stopped giving my special interests due attention, got back on my own feet, and now run a business with group of like minded nerds.

Employment is not for all aspies.

I think many of us end up as "independent" contractors. Unless your special interest is obsessive tinkering with new forms of mostly dysfunctional "technology", contracting is a just a variant of the slave labour route known as employment.

What worked for me was perseverance, focus on my special interest, and using the Web to connect with people all over the world who share my interest. Incrementally, over a period of many years, we've build up a highly capable team.

I seriously don't know how I would have coped in the pre-Web era.

"I am not working now and it is unlikely that I will be able to work in the foreseeable future."

It's true though. There's no way I can work because of the struggle of multiple disabilities I have. :/ I had a job through a life skills program, and it was an absolute disaster. I ended up quitting it. That's when my dad put me on SSI under him until I'm 27. I don't think holding a job is likely for me because of my inability to handle stress and anxiety.

I work part time. That's enough for me. Often it's too much.

I'm the same. My mood changes too much and I get stressed out too easily that I'd probably go insane working.

I work part time now but worked pretty much full time for about 25 years.

I work part-time, but I have quite generous disability benefits that would go down if I worked full-time, so at the moment, I have no real economic incentive to work full time.

I try not to work on things I am not interested in if I can avoid it.