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Feeling useless

Zerris

Hi,

I am a 28 year old man and was diagnosed with ASD in the early part of this year. I have been having difficulty in securing and maintaining work and now I am not enthusiastic about my future. I don't feel I have a future where I can earn a reasonable ammount of money and live independently. I used to work in IT but could not stand working on the helpdesk due to my difficulties. Same with the role I held in HR. All the other entry level roles in IT seem to be these horrid helpdesk positions, I just can't

I do not have a good work future ahead of me. I don't know what to do anymore. I am so tired from trying and failing .

Matt

  • Aspies don't have much future in society.  They simply don't fit in,  they are different. Imagine a team of aspies. Everyone will be arguing and none will understand the other as each will be spewing out loads of info causing all others to have info overload.

  • Sorry to read about your problems, Zerris.  I don't know if my experience of being in that position would be of any help to you.

    When I obtained an HNC in Computing and looked for IT jobs, I found that a lot of the better paid jobs required qualifications plus a lot of experience (which I didn't have).  I also noticed that there were quite as few IT support jobs in schools, which were temporary, part time and in some cases were also term time - because these didn't pay particularly well, they didn't attract a lot of applicants.  I was prepared to leave home to move to another part of the country to work, so I applied for  these types of jobs to get the experience.  Eventually I got a job and got useful experience while upgrading my qualifications.  I am now in a permanent job working in a school.

  • Sorry to hear this and totally understand where your coming from. It sounds like that you’ve gained some useful experience and you’ve done well to make it through these roles with ASD.

    I know it’s tough for ASD employees but there is a future out there even if it it does not feel like that at present. The following links might be useful to get some support:

    Career Planner: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/planner

    Access to Work: https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work

    National Autistic Society advice: 

    https://www.autism.org.uk/about/adult-life/work.aspx 

  • Sounds to me like you need to stop trying to do what you think you should be doing and instead do what you want to.

    You will counter saying "yes but I need to do x to be able to have y"  .   This is like a maze where solutions will exist but will probably take some work or help but I guarantee you one will exist.