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Those of you who work - what is your job?

illustrated.lady

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I suppose I'm looking for some inspiration.

In what is a familiar story for many, I am completely burnt out from my work, struggling to cope in an office environment and really just feeling at a loss of what to do. 

A bit of background on me for anyone interested - I'm fairly intelligent and well educated (BSc Psychology and Criminology, MA Sociology - graduated 2018) but I have never been able to transfer this over to the workplace, I have ended up off sick with stress/anxiety/overwhelm in every job I've had and the longest I have lasted in any job is my current three years.

My jobs have included - 

Food service

Retail

Care (elderly, dementia, mental health)

Call Centre

Medical reception/admin/secretarial (current job)

I have worked all hours from 12 hour days, 12 hour mights, 9-5, full time, part time, zero hour contract. I always end up burnt out. 

Ultimately, I have to work and ideally full time. Office work is a struggle because there's people there, constantly with their smells and their noises and their conversation. 

As much as I loved elderly care, I think my sense of justice made it too difficult to overlook the poor management that understaff care homes in order to make as much money as possible. 

I just don't know what to do, I don't need to find a dream job, I just need something I can do and go home and not feel like all my energy has been drained. 

Any ideas, comments, suggestions, all are appreciated.

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  • Business Analyst.

    It's the first job I have found that can be truly compatible with my strengths, and any Business Analyst will tell you that it's a varied and flexible role.

    My route in was via Business Application support. This was pretty stable but I felt I outgrew the subject matter and saw the same restrictions with reliance on external suppliers for resolutions.

    As a Business Analyst, I look to empathise with people (and if I am honest, systems and data, secretly treating them as equal stakeholders) to understand their challenges and barriers, then make the most of what we already have, with mininal time and money cost, while aiming to coach learned colleagues into a place of feeling valid in having suggestions for improvement.

    I would suggest that the risk of being seen as 'too' knowledgeable can put people in a place of unsustainable reliance by a business, something I suspect applies to many autistic persons. We can get comfortable, absorb lots of information, act empathetically at our own detriment, and it becomes convenient for others to ask us instead of working things out, or exploring themselves.

    Anyway, at 21, I was aiming for any job with 'administrator' in the title. I had to go through the adjustment process between art school and office work. Gradually worked into a safe role between human and tech. Love exploring how a business works via its data too.

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  • Business Analyst.

    It's the first job I have found that can be truly compatible with my strengths, and any Business Analyst will tell you that it's a varied and flexible role.

    My route in was via Business Application support. This was pretty stable but I felt I outgrew the subject matter and saw the same restrictions with reliance on external suppliers for resolutions.

    As a Business Analyst, I look to empathise with people (and if I am honest, systems and data, secretly treating them as equal stakeholders) to understand their challenges and barriers, then make the most of what we already have, with mininal time and money cost, while aiming to coach learned colleagues into a place of feeling valid in having suggestions for improvement.

    I would suggest that the risk of being seen as 'too' knowledgeable can put people in a place of unsustainable reliance by a business, something I suspect applies to many autistic persons. We can get comfortable, absorb lots of information, act empathetically at our own detriment, and it becomes convenient for others to ask us instead of working things out, or exploring themselves.

    Anyway, at 21, I was aiming for any job with 'administrator' in the title. I had to go through the adjustment process between art school and office work. Gradually worked into a safe role between human and tech. Love exploring how a business works via its data too.

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