Jobs people with Asperger's syndrome can do

[Enjoy The DeclineParticipant 1719]

After my new insight of me probably being an Asperger, I looked into an article of what jobs people with Asperger’s syndrome can do. Here is a link to an article as well as what is in part of the article itself:

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Bad Jobs for Individuals with Aspergers—
Air traffic controller — Information overload and stress
Airline ticket agent — Deal with angry individuals when flights are cancelled
Cashier — making change quickly puts too much demand on short-term working memory
Casino dealer — Too many things to keep track of
Futures market trader — Totally impossible
Receptionist and telephone operator — Would have problems when the switch board got busy
Short order cook — Have to keep track of many orders and cook many different things at the same time
Taking oral dictation — Difficult due to auditory processing problems
Taxi dispatcher — Too many things to keep track of
Waitress — Especially difficult if have to keep track of many different tables

Good Jobs for Visual Thinkers—
Animal trainer or veterinary technician — Dog obedience trainer, behavior problem consultant
Automobile mechanic — Can visualize how the entire car works
Building maintenance — Fixes broken pipes, windows and other things in an apartment complex, hotel or office building
Building trades — Carpenter or welder. These jobs make good use of visual skills but some individuals will not be able to do them well due to motor and coordination problems.
Commercial art — Advertising and magazine layout can be done as freelance work
Computer animation — Visual thinkers would be very good at this field, but there is more competition in this field than in business or industrial computer programming. Businesses are recruiting immigrants from overseas because there is a shortage of good programmers in business and industrial fields.
Computer programming — Wide-open field with many jobs available especially in industrial automation, software design, business computers, communications and network systems
Computer-troubleshooter and repair — Can visualize problems in computers and networks
Drafting — Engineering drawings and computer aided drafting. This job can offer many opportunities. Drafting is an excellent portal of entry for many interesting technical jobs. I know individuals who started out at a company doing drafting and then moved into designing and laying out entire factories. To become really skilled at drafting, one needs to learn how to draw by hand first. I have observed that most of the individuals who draw beautiful drawings on a computer learned to draw by hand first. Individuals who never learn to draw by hand first tend to leave important details out of their drawings.
Equipment designing — Many industries, often a person starts as a draftsman and then moves into designing factory equipment
Factory maintenance — Repairs and fixes factory equipment
Handcrafts of many different types such as wood carving, jewelry making, ceramics, etc.
Laboratory technician — Who modifies and builds specialized lab equipment
Photography — Still and video, TV cameraman can be done as freelance work
Small appliance and lawnmower repair — Can make a nice local business
Video game designer — Stay out of this field. Jobs are scarce and the field is overcrowded. There are many more jobs in industrial, communications business and software design computer programming. Another bad thing about this job is exposure to violent images.
Web page design — Find a good niche market can be done as freelance work

Good Jobs for Non-Visual Thinkers—
Accounting — Get very good in a specialized field such as income taxes
Bank Teller — Very accurate money counting, much less demand on short-term working memory than a busy cashier who mostly makes change quickly
Clerk and filing jobs — knows where every file is
Computer programming — Less visual types can be done as freelance work
Copy editor — Corrects manuscripts. Many individuals freelance for larger publishers
Engineering — Electrical, electronic and chemical engineering
Inventory control — Keeps track of merchandise stocked in a store
Journalist — Very accurate facts, can be done as freelance
Laboratory technician — Running laboratory equipment
Library science — reference librarian. Help individuals find information in the library or on the Internet.
Physicist or mathematician — There are very few jobs in these fields. Only the very brilliant can get and keep jobs. Jobs are much more plentiful in computer programming and accounting.
Statistician — Work in many different fields such as research, census bureau, industrial quality control, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, etc.
Taxi driver — Knows where every street is
Telemarketing — Get to repeat the same thing over and over, selling on the telephone. Noisy environment may be a problem. In telephone sales, you avoid many social problems.
Tuning pianos and other musical instruments, can be done as freelance work

Jobs for Nonverbal Individuals with Aspergers—
Copy shop — Running photocopies. Printing jobs should be lined up by somebody else.
Data entry — If the person has fine motor problems, this would be a bad job
Factory assembly work — Especially if the environment is quiet
Fast food restaurant — Cleaning and cooking jobs with little demand on short-term memory
Janitor jobs — Cleaning floors, toilets, windows and offices
Lawn and garden work — Mowing lawns and landscaping work
Plant care — Water plants in a large office building
Recycling plant — Sorting jobs
Re-shelving library books — Can memorize the entire numbering system and shelf locations
Restocking shelves — In many types of stores
Warehouse — Loading trucks, stacking boxes

Maybe I can help a fellow Asperger with what they can do in their life by making this post.

"Question everything" - Albert Einstein

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

The problem is that Aspergers is a spectrum disorder. No to Aspies have the same symptoms.

I hate having to work with other people and I hate sitting in front of a computer.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[Enjoy The DeclineParticipant 1719]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

The problem is that Aspergers is a spectrum disorder. No to Aspies have the same symptoms.

I hate having to work with other people and I hate sitting in front of a computer.

Thanks for pointing this out. I am still learning about this stuff. I would like to point out though that the article does have a list of jobs for every type of Asperger’s people.

"Question everything" - Albert Einstein

[Enjoy The DeclineParticipant 1719]

Jan, I would like to point out how much of a help you are to me in the past because it was mainly you that even brought up Asperger’s syndrome a lot of the times in this message board, and after seeing that word Asperger’s a certain amount of times, I finally thoroughly looked up what it is and realized that I have a lot of similarities with it. I do not think that my math skills is as great though compared to yours, but I do have above average math skills. When I was young, math was pretty easy and I did not know why people had a hard time in algebra in grade 8 because I did pretty well with it myself. Sorry to make a scene, just wanted to point out that you are a main reason for my realization of what I have. Just wanted for you to know. Thanks again.

"Question everything" - Albert Einstein

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

You are welcome my brother,

Don’t thank me, thank the Keymaster for being here.

Autism is mostly (not 100%) a man’s issue. If you look at the normal IQ distribution for men, I am at the far right end. But I don’t always act it.

Be warned Psychology is now a female profession. Also, you will see a child psychologist because unless you live in a major urban area, there are no adult autism psychologists.

Problems are right now Autism is cool and trendy. Also, there are many other medical problems that can appear as Aspergers: ADHD, thyroid, and many others,

let me ask you this,

When you have a 1 on 1 conversation with a person at normal (three feet) distance, what percent of the time do you look them in the eye? Be honest.

Were you verbally delayed as a child?

Did you have complications at birth that deprived you of Oxygen?

What is your number one super power?

Tell me about your anger, how does it manifest itself?

You or others may always contact my at my email on my profile page. I’ll respond when I can.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[Enjoy The DeclineParticipant 1719]

Jan, already people in these forums know a LOT more about me than you and you are the one with lots more posts than me, so I am sorry to point that out. I hope you understand that I am not going to just give out information like that to someone that I do not know. I already pointed out in another thread though that the communication skills I had when I was young was lacking, but then I worked at it through lots of reading to a point that I am average in at least English, while it took a while for me to know basic french since I live in Quebec and all. Trust me on all of this though, when I read up about Asperger’s thoroughly, I was basically looking at a mirror of my childhood when I was 5 years old. Not going to say I have Asperger’s to be trendy, especially when I have been reading that there is a stigma behind it. Just want to point out and thank you again for the exposure you gave me about Asperger’s syndrome.

"Question everything" - Albert Einstein

[Anonymous 3]

I always see the aspergers situation as the stats in a RPG. You have certain points, and you distribute them by some characteristics.

That is why people are born with hughe capacities in some areas, but lack in others. All the points went to that stat.

In a pure biological sense, as long as the individual is functional, the diversity is good for the species.

It is only at a societal idiotic level that we need all individuals to be alike. Psychology only helps in this idiotic process, because it does little good for the individual besides labeling him.

Throughout history most genious were most certainly aspergers. Michaelangelo, Tesla, Einstein, just to name a few.

So, I would not think much about being asperger, besides knowing you are in very good company.

And a good job is one that you like doing, getting good money for it.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Np. I am working on my exit strategy.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

I have Asperger’s Syndrome also. My mother wanted me treated several years ago, because she thinks that’s why I’m struggling with the hiring process. I believe it. When I learned about it 5 years ago, and the way my mother described it and what I learned from it, I was able to relive the dark sides of my childhood all over again. I was picked on, teased, bullied, treated like dirt to the point I hated school and feared looking for work after high school was over. My communication skills (verbal) are not very good. I sometimes use the wrong word, or I stumble on finding the proper word to use.

My mind is always thinking or day dreaming. I have a hard time looking people straight on when I talk to them, but I don’t look far away from them; all little bit to one side from them. My mind is powerful in some things that regular people don’t know, such as; knowing all 50 states in order when they were admitted to the union (same order as the releases of state quarters), I’m strong with predicting political turnouts in the primary or elections, I’m very knowledgeable in meteorology by reading books, watching tornado documentaries, reading weather maps, studying what the forecasters are saying like trivia facts, and went outside to study severe thunderstorms. In fact, I even wanted to be a weather forecaster or storm chaser while I was in my school years, and I still do, but the nearest school for that would take me out of town in Champagne, Illinois at the University of Illinois, and I won’t want to leave home.

As far as jobs go that you listed, I’m glad that a lot of computer jobs are good for people like me, because after getting a computer with internet hooked up for the first time, I got to love the computer more and more. I taught myself how to build and repair PC units to the point I built one a few months ago and yes still on eBay (I’m learning to why I’m struggling with that– buried in too many searches). I learned how to format, install programs, build websites and pages by experimenting with 7 sites from Webs.com, and some times I liked it, and some times it was a pain using Webs.com. If it wasn’t for my math skills be long forgotten, I would do something as far as computer programming, software developer (I have a lot of good ideas), website or page developer, and I can already do PC repair and custom build. If I can get a Geek Squad job that would be very good; it’d be better with an A+ certification from CompTIA.

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