Is being underemployed or struggling to get into a career that pays enough to support oneself, common for people on the autism spectrum?

[Gerontius]

@Gerontius Hopefully the truck driver training will work out for you.

And likewise hopefully you can land a career in the sciences.
I have picked a sort of voluntary-poverty approach to things where I minimize expenses but that's not everyone's cup of tea. For me, the salary of a driver will let me focus on saving up for open land and attempting to build a little homestead out there. I will also be able to keep enjoying intellectual pursuits, audiobooks, classical music, and public radio.

 

[Steelbookcollector217]

this makes me feel a little bit better, i know from discussing with my folks, that me and my brother(my only sibling), will inherit the house and property from them after their gone, and we as a family are still paying mortgage, but my parents are confident and believe the mortgage should be fully paid off before they are gone, so yes that means less bills to pay, but i still worry about my future a lot.

Lots of people make it out to be so easy in terms of finding out what they want to do with their life career-wise, and i also can't help but envy people who managed to get into a stable career that pays them enough to live on and they managed to do it without college education.