Do you like your job?

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Do you like your job?
If not, what would you rather be doing?

I hated my jobs a lot more until I learned I had AS. Now, I'm happy just staying employed. My gifts keep me getting new jobs, but it is getting harder. If it weren't for knowing about AS, I would be very unhappy still.

Before, I didn't realize I was socially tone-deaf, so, like a really bad contestant on American Idol, I stood up on stage thinking I was hitting all the right notes, doing all the right things. From my point-of-view, it was terribly unfair that I was not succeeding in my career like I should. I was doing things nobody else could, I was making every effort to be the perfect employee, etc. I've come to accept that, on the upward sloping hill of my career, AS is a treadmill and that I should focus my definition of success on other things and just try to break even career-wise. It sounds depressing, I suppose, but career is just one aspect of life.

After 25 years, I've considered a career shift, but it wouldn't be easy.

Lets see, what are my transferrable skills?
I'm very good at sitting in a little dark room looking at eyeballs...

It's not a bad job, but it's not the profession it was a quarter century ago. I'll probably look to part-time work in a few years, once the house is paid for.

Any suggestions for low stress jobs, that pay a living wage, for a quite literate aspie?

I'm on disabililty from my job as director of nursing due to people treating me poorly. So I detest that job. Fortunately I never have to go back. Also, because the people who made my life miserable are all of a different race than me, I have the federal gov't in my corner and may actually get some money out of the situation. But I would never want to live through that again.

I'm totally afraid of hating my next job. I have an interview Friday for a psychiatric nurse job at the hospital, and on the one hand it may be a good fit for me but on the other I'm just gun-shy about jobs right now.

I'm currently being considered for a Master's program, and hope eventually to work for myself doing research on things that interest me (such as AS). It's years away, though, and I'm not young.

Sigh.

I'm on the fine line between No - But I Can Tolerate it and No - I Hate it

I think of quitting soon every single day, but every single day once I go home I feel relaxed and think nothing of it until the next day.

my job is ok i want to get a better one but I don't know where, I currently work at Wendy's fast food i have worked there almost 7 years (in July) I was hired when I was 15. I may go back to school so I can get a degree and a better job but I hate school I almsot didn't pass high school. college is worse I think.