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what kind of work do people do?

qwerty

I'm quite curious what kind of work do people here do? I've seen from some comments in other threads that there are social workers and teachers out there. The stereotypical autism job is computer programmer, which I think is really cool and requires lots of talent. There are also students on this forum (I'd be interested to know what you're studying). 

Also, what jobs do you think are well-suited for the autistic personality?

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  • BTW I did at one time apply for jobs in IT and did excellently at the various rounds of aptitude tests.  But in all of those jobs it turned out I had to then subject myself to a panel interview with at least 6 or 7 on those panels so I backed out due to feeling terrified and getting no sleep in the run up.  So in my case there was an initial barrier to the stereotypical autism job whcih I couldn't, at the time, overcome.    

  • in reply to Jenny Butterfly

    Panel interviews sound really stressful! I really hate those too.

    I think there are some IT companies that look into hiring autistic talent (like Microsoft and Auticon), and they adjust the interview so it's slightly less stressful. 

  • in reply to qwerty

    I think there is more awareness now and consequently more adjustments.  But I was starting out in the 80s with no diagnosis.

    I always had an idea of how the "right person for the job" might look and perform so eventually I learnt to prepare for interviews by stepping into that persona.  This was enough to get into the workplace, but very hard to maintain once I'd got my foot in the door.

  • in reply to NAS62261
    NAS62261 said:
    But, I didn't gel with the growing team … so where I would have become third in line, it was let go for this and probably other discriminatory reasons. 

    This is so hard and a major stumbling block.  I was always better at working independently too but during change and reorganisation it always seemed to be the people skills and level of integration into the team that mattered.  Some training in this area much earlier on in life might have helped, both increasing my skills and altering my expectations.  

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  • in reply to NAS62261
    NAS62261 said:
    But, I didn't gel with the growing team … so where I would have become third in line, it was let go for this and probably other discriminatory reasons. 

    This is so hard and a major stumbling block.  I was always better at working independently too but during change and reorganisation it always seemed to be the people skills and level of integration into the team that mattered.  Some training in this area much earlier on in life might have helped, both increasing my skills and altering my expectations.  

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