Do You like Repetative Work?

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I am doing work expiricne and the jobs i am doing are very repetavtive i enjoy it and im good at it i dont get bored like the other people with me do you reckon this is an autism thing that does anyone else like doing repetavitev jobs or do you get bored with it?

I ADORE repetitive work. I make lists of names and statistics for fun(!), and that's as repetitive as one can get. Whenever I have had a job, I always loved the repetitive tasks the most as well. That's so awesome that you are getting paid for enjoyable work...savour it!

I love repetitive work. I never get bored with it. I also tend to do things in the same order. If I try and do them out of order, I forget tasks.

I don't like repetitive work. However, it's easier to get myself to it. More complex works that involve exploiting my real capacity are more satisfying, though harder to manage.

I have to go by a checklist, either written/on screen or in my head, so I do not forget any part of a task to get a job done. But I hate stupid routine jobs. My father trained me to do as much as possible very diverse activities in order to get a very diverse and differencing sensory input, so my brain gets training 24/7. He trained me, he skilled me at making plans, fallback positions and alternatives for the plans for about everything. Even for spontaneous actions, I have thought and planed them, looking like spontaneous actions of mine. My brain is used to work at 100% 24/7 and depending uppon how diffecult some brain work has been, I need some recreation battery recharging time, just doing almost nothing or reading a sf-novel for some hours, whatever - slowing down for some time.

So, I need a stable structure within my job, like a stable dependable frame within I can do very differenting tasks. But I cannot do more than two or maximal three different tasks at the same time. The more the tasks at hand are diffecult, the less I can concentrate doing many of them at the same time. So, I love doing very diffecult tasks, but one after each other, not all at the same time. But even very complex tasks can become routine tasks for me. I just have memorized them, remembering exactly how to do them and getting bored doing them, even when they are realy complex. I love working at tasks for a bigger structure, working at projects, even projects I am part of the planing team or have planed them allone. Projects wich need weeks to get done with very many different tasks, small and large, less and more complex tasks.

Assembling a PC, hardware and software is almost routine to me. Waik me up in the night, tell me what PC you need and have many parts at stock reachable to me. I will assemble you any PC you want. Shall it be a server, a office PC or a gamer PC? Does not matter. Finding out what failures a PC has, is fun. Mostly I ask questions how the failure shows, what the PC does and does not do, maybe have a test run, and withing a real short time I know what is wrong and need to be changed and fixed. The diffecult part is to listen to what people are telling me about the problem. NTs tend to be very indifferenciated about it and are unable to answere direct specific questions I ask.

But planing a network, the goal of a new infrastructure, how many servers, cients, printer etc. and network hardware will be needed even for the future of the next 5+ years, that is realy fun and complicated complex. That is what I realy have the urge to do. Thinking about all the details and how they have to be put together in order that the project will be a winner, is what I realy enjoy.

I once had a job replacing the electrical flexes and 13 amp plug tops on hundreds of developing lamps at Ilford Films in England. They were in five huge crates with lids on them. I loved the job so much that I spun it out as long as possible. Four months later I came to take the lid off the last crate and to my horror it was empty. I then had to return to "real" work. Lol

I like it when I can do the same thing one after anoher after another since I am already in the mind set to do something instead of doing one thing then something totally unrelated then do another one of the thing I did first and have to get all set up again to do what I just did a little while ago.

One of the reasons I love my job is because it's so repetitive.

I'd say yes, but that doesn't mean I like anything that is repetitive though.

I was recently asked why I like repetitive work and why don't I get bored since I'm a smart guy. I said I can sometimes get bored but to a degree it feels like a relief.

I also prefer it because I can more easily be in my head thinking about what I want to think about.

Most of the time I do like repetitive work. I love to challenge my mind an learn and explore new things but when it comes to work I like the things that are predictable and repetitive. I get excited about tasks that most people would consider boring.

Repetitive work is great. For the last week or so I have been helping build a solid surface counter top and when it finally got time to do the sanding the person I was working with on it started telling me how sanding was the worst part. I don't see why though, I got to listen to music and spend hours being in my own world trying to make the counter top as smooth as possible. I kind of wish the counter top was bigger!

I like repetition.

Seems like we're very diverse with the answers to the OP's question... I can't stand repetitive jobs of any kind! I need to keep my mind busy, and repetition doesn't do that for me. I've tried to do those jobs, but I had to quit. One of them was a very good one too, with excellent pay. But all the pay in the world isn't worth misery and boredom.

Charles

I like variety of tasks - it helps to keep my mind active and stops me from getting bored. However, within that I find that repetitive tasks can be extremely enjoyable and actually helpful if I am feeling overloaded - I can get into the rhythm of the task and let my mind do it's thing and it provides much needed recharge time. At work I make sure I always have one repetitive task on my task list (which isn't too hard to get on there as no one else ever wants to do them!) which I can turn to if I need some solitude but also need to be working.

I love Repetitive work. I think i love it so much because there is little chance for failure. I hate jobs where people are constantly teaching me to learn how to do new things for the first time, my brain just doesn't work that way.

Love it. But I like a change in what's being repeated after a week or so. Writing is repetitive and more boring than bricklaying or pointing so I get fed up with it. It too damn finiky so I switched off my spellchecker and I'm riding out a big block here. I'm nearly ready to start writing again but I wait a bit longer before getting absorbed back into that.