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Recent content by DHS

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    Pushing the limits of my comfort zone

    Thanks everyone, your replies are greatly appreciated. Made it through flight number one, from here on out it's more familiar airports at least. That being said, before I left I thought I wouldn't mind working at that site again, but is without a doubt the worst airport I have ever been...
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    Pushing the limits of my comfort zone

    I don't know if I'll even manage a question by the end of this, might just be venting or hoping to hear about similar situations. Mini backgroud, early 30's, get by pretty well day to day, mostly just come across as weird (who doesn't), quit my job a few months back with the plan being to do...
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    Too good at my job

    I know it sounds strange, but I seem to be too good at my job. I took a permanent part time job almost 6 months ago, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, it's a perfect balance for me, I can work flat from the moment I start until I leave a couple of hours before everyone else. In the first couple of...
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    When did you learn what Autism and Asperger's really were?

    Personally, I have spent the majority of my life being oblivious as to what Autism and Asperger's syndrome were. For much of my life I had a single mental image for each, for Autism it was Rain Man and for Asperger's it was Jerry "Hands" Espenson from Boston Legal, making me at least 20 before...
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    If you were... (Star Trek)

    Zefram Cochrane, inventing warp drives and ignoring warning lights...
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    How old were you when you got your first job?

    I started out washing cars at a workshop when I was 15, during school holidays. This gradually expanded to working as a mechanic. I later took over my dads business part time while I was at uni, before getting a design job, again starting out part time, doing a few odds and ends, spent 7 years...
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    Long term career plans

    Thanks for your input guys, clearly I'm not the only one. I can particularly relate to your dilemma Ambi, I now have options for career progression again, but I'm not sure if it would be healthy for me to accept or pursue extra work load. I enjoy the challenge of trying to achieve as much as I...
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    Long term career plans

    I was fortunate enough to start my professional career in a design job where I got to essentially hide away and solve problems for 8 years, until the company got bought out and moved interstate. I spent the better part of a year looking for a similar job, while doing as much freelance work as I...
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    Aussie aspie arriving

    Thanks, that's a good looking A model in your picture, I'm very slowly building a channeled A model, although building is probably a strong term, I'm collecting parts and stacking them in the basic shape at the moment.
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    Aussie aspie arriving

    I have been getting emails from Aspies Central for a while now, until recently I hadn't felt the need to post anything on a forum. On a site like this, it should come as no surprise that I'm they type to typically keep to myself. I obtained an official diagnosis 2 years ago, at the age of 29...
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