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Do you like or want to - work?

Pixiefox
1 month ago

I have recently retired from work. It was long awaited and I have not missed the job at all ( the people I worked with were nice, but the job itself had become a mixture of stressful and tedious)

I have never particularly enjoyed working. I have got some sense of satisfaction from doing a job well during certain periods of my working life, but in most jobs I had there were people - mostly managers - who I really did not enjoy spending my days with. I get bored quickly and so jobs became mundane in a short period of time, and if I put myself forward to do higher level tasks (that I was capable of) I was either refused the role or ended up doing the higher level stuff without getting the extra pay for it. And I've suffered burn out from time to time due to the stress of work making me exhausted.

I know that a lot of autistic people are unable to work but would like to, and that many people get a sense of self worth from working and a better lifestyle (due to having wages) But I feel that society may over value work in some ways, and that maybe it programmes us to think that not working is lazy or unproductive? However there are some wealthy people who do little to no work and nobody calls them lazy. I heard a saying somewhere that I like: "we're human beings, not human doings". Perhaps that's a good answer next time someone asks - "so, what do you do?"

I just wondered what everyone's views were about working?

If you currently work, would you give up working if you became financially independent?

If you do not work but would like to, or want a career change, what would your dream job be?

If you do not work and have no wish to, or are retired or cannot work due to health reasons, how do you structure your days?

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  • 1 month ago

    Frankly, since my later in life diagnosis, as an “unofficial” way to get a post-diagnostic assessment to both identify my level of autism and to identify any appropriate support needs, I would be open to the idea of working for an autism charity or other autism related company - doing so would also ease the pressures of others who refuse to understand autism, including at official level and I would be in a better position to handle the obvious prejudice and discriminatory attitudes that are out there, given the kind of experience that I would gain from such a position - perhaps this is something that NAS and other autism charities and bodies could be carefully considering as part of its campaign work? 

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  • 1 month ago

    Frankly, since my later in life diagnosis, as an “unofficial” way to get a post-diagnostic assessment to both identify my level of autism and to identify any appropriate support needs, I would be open to the idea of working for an autism charity or other autism related company - doing so would also ease the pressures of others who refuse to understand autism, including at official level and I would be in a better position to handle the obvious prejudice and discriminatory attitudes that are out there, given the kind of experience that I would gain from such a position - perhaps this is something that NAS and other autism charities and bodies could be carefully considering as part of its campaign work? 

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