The Top 5 Worst Careers for people with Aspergers

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Secretary, Nurse, etc.

EDIT: and salesperson

I have to strongly disagree with you about being able to run fast (football player)

I ran right through my teens and clocked a personal best of 3 (4.8km) miles in 14 minutes when I was 17.

I used to run like the wind blows and so........................did Forrest Gump

Any kind of 'management' job.............

as for a politcian, some aspies might make good politicians.I am pretty good at the political thing...I even once got up in front of a bunch of people and made a short address and a very powerful one at that...ON NATIONAL TELEVISION...It was a protest against the NDP-Liberal-Bloc Quebecios coalition last year.Our protests worked and the conservatives are still in parliament.

I think that analitically Aspie can be very good judge and teacher if they work around their problems.

I think Judge is way off, largely because it completely misunderstands what Judges do. Its not like being a cop. It is about knowing proceedural rules mostly. The best judges have near photographic memory for the legal proceedures in if/when scenarios. Most judges make decisions based on the law, not the facts. Only juries get to make judgements on the facts for the most part. Even where it is a trail where a judge sits deciding on the facts, it is often trails which are highly technical in nature (for example a patent dispute or regulatory matter). The judge doesn't need to know whether or not a person is lying and "read" them, that is not a judges job. That is the job for the plaintiff and defence attorneys, and to ask analytical questions to lawyers or making rulings on proceedural matters.

Trail lawyer...now that is a poor job for an aspie, since one DOES have to know if somebody is lying or not to cross examine them, and it is highly dependant on understanding body language and facial expression.

As somebody stated, most legal jobs have nothing to do with trails. This is actually only maybe 5-10% of where the legal world spends its time. Its mostly hardcore analysis. I have to admit, I am scared to death of courtrooms, but I never had to step into one. I am actually non-practicing at the moment.

Some legal jobs (or quasi legal) are nothing but pure analysis.

telemarketing
barperson

retail job that requires you to persuade the customer to purchase stuff

Waiter/waitress or bartender

barperson
nurse
therapist

Air Traffic Controller

Receptionist

Diplomat

I know an Aspie lawyer who preferrs to stick to things like wills and bankruptcies, rather than the emotional drama of divorces -- but he also loves to listen to himself argue and would have been a good trial atty in my opinion.

I know an Aspie cop on another site. He has no problem with his job.

I think an Aspie judge would have an easier time brushing off the sob stories of wrongdoers who want to look like the victims in the cases they hear (most of them, basically), unless they were of the over-empathetic type rather than the under-empathetic.

One other thing about #1: the sound of the guns being fired would drive our eardrums nuts.

Number 2 we could do, where the judges job is to interpret the law from facts presented. However, i do agree it would be bad for us, not because of detecting the deception, but rather us being cut and dry, black and white with the law. For example, if i were a judging a thief, i wouldnt cut his hands off (like what is done in some other countries) but i would have his hands scarred/marked. Punishment to fit the crime and all. As for teaching, we could do that as well, but likely with elementary or college students only (trust me, it would be hell working with the teens). I know we wouldnt really do well with retail (having experienced this first hand at a Wal-mart) because: 1) Retailers like to break their own rules, 2) Retail managers (90% of the time) have an IQ lower than than those under their employ, 3) retail managers cannot stand people smarter than them, 4) Retail expects you to bend over and take everything up the arse, 5) As an employee, you will be blamed for everything wrong that happens, 6) Even the customers will blame you for everything wrong in their lives. Those were the 4 worst years of my life, and is probably responsible for the early development of my receding hairline.

I do and don't agree with aspies not making good teachers.

I'm a teacher and have been for several years. I've been described as an exceptional teacher and love my job. I find AS makes me very focussed on my job, it has sort of become an obsession of mine and people ask me why I am constantly working. I do have issues with it though. I find it a lot easier to communicate with children, I suppose that's one of the reasons I chose to be a teacher. But I find communicating with the adults very difficult, and often avoid it. I'd rather stay in my classroom alone at lunchtime than go in the staff room. I think the children and classroom assistant I work with find it hard to reach my very high expectations and they probably get annoyed at what a perfectionist I am. I do actually notice a lot of teachers with AS traits, and strangely a lot of head teachers too. I'd be really interested to talk to anyone else who has AS who teaches.

Kerry

I knew autistics who had good coordination andplayed footbal very well all the time, though. I Used to do kickboxing as well (then again, I wasn't as graceful as the others in my class).

Also, remember this surfer with asperger? It defies the entire coordination thing.