Published on 12, July, 2020
I understand that many of us do not have jobs, and I know that those who do (myself included here) struggle a lot with them. This got me wondering about what dream job(s) we can think of, or even hope to do one day. It may be inspiring and help some of us find something that allows forum users to get a job or get a better-suited job.
I will put down some thoughts to get the ball rolling. My main priority is to be away from an office or busy environment.
1) work from home permanently doing some kind of PAYE employment for salary certainty. this would ideally just be for 2-3 days a week. if money was not a constraint then I would not do this work at all, and I would do something more fun like a gardening job in the summer, maybe become a landscape garden designer, write novels and short stories professionally.
2) design board games 1-2 days a week.
3) volunteer at a charity in a non customer-facing role 1 day a week.
4) maybe a part-time bike mechanic and/or frame builder 1 day a week. i can't afford the training costs and time needed to get the qualifications to do these things now but maybe in the future.
A 'portfolio' career is my ideal because I can get bored doing the same thing and this also allows me to think in terms of escapes - when things get too much doing job X I can flee to safety with job Y. I think this mental trick would be very beneficial for me.
How about you?
I've worked in the family farm that's been fun but my dream job has always been to be a nurse so I can help people. I'd really like to do that.
My dream job is to be an autistic advocate- I would potentially like to work for AUSOME Training, an autistic led training company.
I also like the idea of writing short stories explaining autism/neurodiversity to newly identified autistic children. Also hypothetically I like the role of a PA for a disabled person.
I really love these ideas! I hadn’t heard of AUSOME Training, so now I’m going to check them out!
I’ve also had the thought about explaining autism via short stories - but writing stories is actually something I haven’t tried since school, and I don’t have time at the moment. I might give it a go next year if I can think of anything. Is it something you’ve tried? The idea of doing this for newly identified autistic children is such a kind idea and I can imagine it would really help with developing a sense of ‘positive autistic identity’.
I really like the look of AUSOME Training. I haven’t tried writing stories for newly identified autistic children but I think that it is really important to write from the autistic perspective as it is really important for these children to have roles models/a sense of belonging as early as possible. I think any autistic adult can write stories for children because they know what it’s like from lived experience. You should try writing you could be really good.