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Dee-Dee said:

Ideally, I'd like to work from home as travelling is very stressful to me

I think it best to offer a reality check here. If you have no track record of working in a field then there will be few roles of this nature that you could do without a lot of training and oversight that would normally only be performed at the company locations. If you have no significant skills that are hard to find elsewhere then competition will be very high from people with the skills and experience in the current job market.

I'm not saying this is impossible but it is highly unlikely - I didn't want you to get your hopes up.

The sort of thing I can think of that would suit your skills/experience level is an entry level job in a factory or warehouse where you have your own responsibilities that you are mostly left to get on with and so long as you meet your performance targets then you get little interference from your supervisor.

Do you drive and enjoy it? A courier type role could work although you do have human interaction at both collection and delivery points.

Maybe a lower paying role that requires very little could work - house sitter type positions have been mentioned here as a good way to also be independent although you will need to look after the place, keep it clean and live on your own if this is to work.

What we can suggest will be influenced by a few things overall - are you willing to improve your ability to cope with your stressers and are you willing to train yourself for new skills.

To endure a job you have to develop coping mechanisms, learn to interact with others and manage pressure to a degree. Without these the chances of you having only a succession of failed regular jobs is high. Finding a job that is suited to your limitations will help but there will always be a need to interact so in honesty it would be better to learn the skills sooner and give yourself a wider range of options to choose from.

Those of us who have jobs will tell you they are very rarely easy or nice. You learn to cope as best you can but the fact is you are selling yourself for money at the end of the day and the employer will expect a lot for that pay. They can get that service from a neurotypical with less hassle if they want so we have to be capable of operating on more or less the same level to be in with a chance to compete.

It is not all doom and gloom though - the money you do make can make a huge difference in quality of life so it helps to look at the benefits of an income as well as the costs to you.

Dee-Dee said:

Ideally, I'd like to work from home as travelling is very stressful to me

I think it best to offer a reality check here. If you have no track record of working in a field then there will be few roles of this nature that you could do without a lot of training and oversight that would normally only be performed at the company locations. If you have no significant skills that are hard to find elsewhere then competition will be very high from people with the skills and experience in the current job market.

I'm not saying this is impossible but it is highly unlikely - I didn't want you to get your hopes up.

The sort of thing I can think of that would suit your skills/experience level is an entry level job in a factory or warehouse where you have your own responsibilities that you are mostly left to get on with and so long as you meet your performance targets then you get little interference from your supervisor.

Do you drive and enjoy it? A courier type role could work although you do have human interaction at both collection and delivery points.

Maybe a lower paying role that requires very little could work - house sitter type positions have been mentioned here as a good way to also be independent although you will need to look after the place, keep it clean and live on your own if this is to work.

What we can suggest will be influenced by a few things overall - are you willing to improve your ability to cope with your stressers and are you willing to train yourself for new skills.

To endure a job you have to develop coping mechanisms, learn to interact with others and manage pressure to a degree. Without these the chances of you having only a succession of failed regular jobs is high. Finding a job that is suited to your limitations will help but there will always be a need to interact so in honesty it would be better to learn the skills sooner and give yourself a wider range of options to choose from.

Those of us who have jobs will tell you they are very rarely easy or nice. You learn to cope as best you can but the fact is you are selling yourself for money at the end of the day and the employer will expect a lot for that pay. They can get that service from a neurotypical with less hassle if they want so we have to be capable of operating on more or less the same level to be in with a chance to compete.

It is not all doom and gloom though - the money you do make can make a huge difference in quality of life so it helps to look at the benefits of an income as well as the costs to you.