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How do you get to do that job....?

TheCatWoman

I was thinking with all our sensitivites with smells, hearing, colour vision and stuff, why we aren't more in demand for jobs where those things are assets?

I mean how do you get to become a perfumier, a wine taster, paint colour designer. These things just pop up on tv and I sort of take them for granted, but how do you get these jobs, are there colleges that teach them? Can you imagine being with your schools careers adviser and being asked what you want to do and saying you want to be a perfumier, if you even knew such a thing existed? I could just imagine the look that says 'you're not taking this seriously, so we'll put you down for shop work'.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    I mean how do you get to become a perfumier, a wine taster, paint colour designer.

    Others have talked about how some trades are passed from parent to offspring - this covers many that are less "skilled", but the ones that require a lot of specialised skill and knowledge are often roles that you grow into.

    The perfumier probably started as a chemist or healthcare worker, found an interest in the field and worked towards this and over time their employer saw potential in their skills and they evolved into a specialist role.

    I have had the opportunity to specialise in certain aspects of IT over the years but after trying one or two, found them too narrow and boring to keep my attention. I suspect the sort of specialists you allude to here are able to have a very narrow field of expertise and a high boredom threshold.

    Some elements of this would work well for many autists in their area of "special interests" but my worry is that when it becomes a full time job then it loses a lot of its allure to us, and once that allure has gone it becomes painful to have to work in a field you don't enjoy.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    I mean how do you get to become a perfumier, a wine taster, paint colour designer.

    Others have talked about how some trades are passed from parent to offspring - this covers many that are less "skilled", but the ones that require a lot of specialised skill and knowledge are often roles that you grow into.

    The perfumier probably started as a chemist or healthcare worker, found an interest in the field and worked towards this and over time their employer saw potential in their skills and they evolved into a specialist role.

    I have had the opportunity to specialise in certain aspects of IT over the years but after trying one or two, found them too narrow and boring to keep my attention. I suspect the sort of specialists you allude to here are able to have a very narrow field of expertise and a high boredom threshold.

    Some elements of this would work well for many autists in their area of "special interests" but my worry is that when it becomes a full time job then it loses a lot of its allure to us, and once that allure has gone it becomes painful to have to work in a field you don't enjoy.

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