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NAS80388

Hello everybody,

My name is Steve and I've just signed up with NAS. I've been formally diagnosed with Autism in October 2021. I'm in my early fifties, high functioning, and would like some advise or tips to do a job search. Currently I'm working part-time (20 hrs per week) from home answering the phone on an enquiry line. I love working from home so I don't have to deal with the anxiety by going in to an office on a daily basis, but this job involves too much multi-tasking. 

My new job has to be part time, from home, has virtually no multi-tasking and it has to be on a computer. It can be boring, I don't mind if it's part-time.

Any ideas?

  • in reply to NAS65321

    Thanks for the support about not liking office jobs, I've done a few office jobs but never lasted very long. You never had an office job, and I can report that you haven't missed much. I always ended up being the 'funny but strange one', and being bullied. For now I'm going to stick to this work from home job which I like except for all the multi-tasking, but I can get away with it by completing task one after the other rather that doing them simultaneously. 

    I don't think there are many jobs on the computer where there's no multi-tasking, but I will keep looking. 

  • Hi I am a similar age and was made redundant at Easter and just started a new job. I had plan A, the job that I have been doing for years and then plan B, jobs I could do but did not have experience of daunting. I found a plan A job, I work on the road as a service engineer and have never worked a day in a office, that alone I would hate. For me there was too much anxiety involved with doing random jobs that I could do but felt really anxious about even applying.