Sometimes feel jealous of my partner

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I feel horrible for even typing this but need to talk about it.

Has anyone here has or is in a relationship and they have felt jealous of there loved one in some way.

Don't get me wrong my partner deserves the success he has but I just feel like I should on paper be at the same level or higher bit not.

In context my partner does not have a degree and and as many qualifications besides what he needs in his field of work and he is a highly qualified and paid network engineer who earns after taxes near 3k a month.
His CV shows no time where he was unemployed and he has always worked and is able to cope with day to day life.

Me I have a degree I study a lot I consider myself very well educated but my job even though I have a degree is just a entry level data entry job I cannot seem to go any higher.
My wage after taxes is only 1.2k a month I feel like it's pitiful which it is.
My job history is full of me leaving jobs cause I got bored and there is gaps in my CV which may be helping my promotion prospects and I feel daily day to day stuff hard and boring.
I cannot manage money my parents used to manage my wages and bank accounts and hand out pocket money up until I moved out.
I struggle with managing workloads both at work and at home though it's easier at work but my partner finds it so easy it's a breeze for him.

I love him but there is on rare occasions where I feel jealous towards him and worse think that I deserve his success but I know I don't

I've been jealous of my SO. It wasn't work related, it was social related.

It's ridiculous too. I'm not as social, and I don't want to be as social as the SO. I'm happy for them and encourage them to go out and have fun. I know it's healthy in relationships to have outside friends and interests. most of the time I don't want that for myself though. I want to stay home when I have free time and not go be with people. I want my down time so I can relax, decompress, and/or take care of household tasks at my own pace. I also need it or I'd go nuts. But sometimes I get in a funk and I get jealous that they have these friends and out times I don't have.

I should clarify, the SO isn't some kind of jerk who leaves me alone all the time. the two of us go out either together, just the two of us, or hang with their friends.

I feel like a jerk when I do that, but still, I do it sometimes.

I am not in competition with my partner. Where I am is solely dependent on my choices and condition. I am also happy to celebrate my partner's success.

The thing that is important is the relationship I have with my partner, not her relationship with the outside world.

That's how I feel about others in general. I harbor no resentment towards others being more successful than me if they aren't a$$holes about it. I have a problem with others being successful when they abuse the system to achieve their so-called success like lying, cheating, stealing, or majorly screwing others over for example but otherwise I'm OK with others being successful. However I'm not gonna say I ever really feel jelly towards my partner but I do/did have some behaviors that could look like I'm jelly. I never had much of my own life when I'm in a romantic relationship. I love spending a lot of time with my partner & I'm also very protective of my partner. Both my ex girlfriends had much more of their own life than I had. I wanted them to have their own lives & own things going on if they got something out of it. But I had BAD anxiety & OCD that caused me to get thoughts stuck in my head that bad things were going on & caused me to have panic attacks worrying. Like I would freak out thinking something bad happened when they took longer to send me messages. The anxiety & OCD caused me to become very controlling & needy/clingy & I took things out on them. Things are a lot better in my current relationship cuz I got on anxiety & OCD medication when my 2nd relationship ended; I tried to learn/grow/mature from screwing that relationship up. It also helps that our relationship is not long distance & she doesn't have that much of a life either outside of visiting her family.

Don't get me wrong i have no problem with his success in fact I'm happy he's been successful I just don't understand why he's so successful and I'm not and I got better qualifications for example.

I understand your confusion. Aspergers can affect different people in different ways & different extents. Also some people have better "luck" than others. It may be that your guy has better social skills & makes a better impression or maybe he had better connections for some reason. Some people just seem to get a raw deal in life compared to some others.

I'm not jealous of my husband, but long, long ago I had an ex boyfriend who I was extremely jealous of. He was everything I wanted to be and wasn't. He had a great personality and amazing social skills and everyone loved him. I struggled socially and a lot of people didn't like me. He was professionally successful and stuck with one job. I kept quitting jobs. He had a loving, accepting family that adored him. My family was dysfunctional and kind of abusive. He had a great social life. I was a hermit. You get the picture. The thing was, I didn't even know I was jealous of him until I sat down and tried to figure out why our relationship went to hell and why I was so awful to him and then I saw that it was jealousy at the root of most of it. Well, that and the pressure of always feeling I had to be more like him and try to fit in. I didn't resent his social and professional success. I admired him for it, but the jealousy I had and the longing to be the person he was was absolutely toxic.