Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello everybody I'm a 20-year-old female who hasn't had a job since November, and I really need a job. I'm unable to work in customer service because it rapidly made me exhausted and simply made my anxiety worse.I tried McDonald's, but I had to leave after almost two years because, before I was diagnosed, if I became too overwhelmed, I would just shut down and pretend to be sick so I could go home. My hands would physically shake from anxiety, and it scared me that people would keep asking me about it in front of my coworkers and clients. I worked as a customer service assistant for Tesco for 11 months, but I quit because I couldn't handle nasty customers or being left to manage the desk by myself.In essence, this means that customer-facing positions are off limits.I'm out of time and don't know where to seek for employment that are accommodating. I rely on savings, but they are slowly depleting, so I need to find a work as soon as possible that I can accomplish.Has anyone got any suggestions?
Thank You,
Hi a few less exhausting job suggestions would be working with animals, book shop or possibly a remote working from home job where you could do admin work without going into the office. If you don't mind very early mornings then you could still work in a supermarket but as a person that picks the shopping for online customers. That way the majority of your shift would be while the supermarket is closed to the public.
Good luck with job hunting
I wonder whether science jobs may be an option?
There aren’t that many these days but factory jobs maybe?
the issue with quiet places like a book shop is that its so quiet and so few customers or revenue that they only need 1 staff and they never need any more staff to be recruited.
i found warehouse work works out fine. you can often just be placed in some repetitive easy task and be left to your own on it and do it super fast compared to others and so shine there. the problem would be if they then decide they want to promote you and that would end up meaning communications based position, which is not a great thing for asd.
I have a cousin who has autism and she's been working in a library for 2 years.
She says it suits her cause the lights are dim and it's quiet with little to no pressure
Hi, Book shops tend to be quiet and not too demanding, also garden centres are okay, you can get away from people and work with nature, also the pace isn’t too much. My son liked working in a Waitrose through the night when it was closed, ear buds in, music on and no customers. Cleaning is another job where the job is done after everyone has gone home.