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What jobs best suit you as an autistic adult?

Ellie 567

Hi everyone, 

I'm looking for a new role and was wondering what roles everyone on here does for work? For me, I like:

Structure, routine, specific tasks (so I dont get confused with vague instructions). My hobbies are: 

Fitness

Animals 

English 

I used to do some tutoring which I liked. 

Thanks,

Ellie

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  • Part of my role is requirements gathering. Someone comes along saying "we want the website to do this", I then take that and ask questions to get them to clarify what they actually want. First figuring out that they didn't mean what they said, working out what they actually want it to do, working out what it can be made to do, and finally working out what is achievable in the time they want it in.

    It's not something I'm enthusiastic about, sometimes it can be a little frustrating, but I'm rather good at it in part due to autistic traits I think. It does also make it much more pleasant later when I can just power through the work on my own, or when others are appreciative of the level of clarity in it all. 

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  • Part of my role is requirements gathering. Someone comes along saying "we want the website to do this", I then take that and ask questions to get them to clarify what they actually want. First figuring out that they didn't mean what they said, working out what they actually want it to do, working out what it can be made to do, and finally working out what is achievable in the time they want it in.

    It's not something I'm enthusiastic about, sometimes it can be a little frustrating, but I'm rather good at it in part due to autistic traits I think. It does also make it much more pleasant later when I can just power through the work on my own, or when others are appreciative of the level of clarity in it all. 

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  • in reply to D

    This type of technical data gathering is where being detail focussed, with a literal interpretation and questioning of assumptions, pays dividends.

    You tend to point out all the things others implicitly assume or gloss over.

    People get fed up with all the questions, but they learn to like how smoothly things work afterwards.