What Do You Do For Work?

[Structrix]

I work as a secretary.

 

[korbin]

I have worked a hardware store for three years now. It was the only job I ever applied for and I got it magically. My favorite and least favorite thing about the job is the people, I get a mixed bag of good and bad. I enjoy the work for the most part and my boss likes me. I could probably become manger if I wanted, my boss has hinted about it, but I do not know if I am going to stay there when I graduate college.

 

[Aspieistj]

I believe education is essential to getting a decent job. I am very competitive intellectually and worked my but off every time I decided to go to college. l I have an AAS, 2 BSs and 2 MSs. It has made it possible for me to first be a teacher and then become an RN and work for a hospital and nursing home. I always struggled with the social issues of working with people but was good enough at my jobs to stay employed. I am now retired, live like a hermit because I am exhausted from all those years of working to get along with NTs, and have a fairly decent retirement due to my own good sense in staying employed and saving and investing. I am grateful that I somehow kept slogging through all the social crap requirements, kept my head down, and kept working and not spending every penny I made. I don't smoke or drink and was never tempted to abuse drugs. Guess it was good that I had very few friends and didn't get hooked on their foolish habits. It might have been to my advantage that I didn't learn I have AS until I was in my 60s. I just accepted that I was awful, nasty, unlikable and weird and did what I had to do to survive. Oh, I never allowed myself to charge, and then pay interest, on things I could make myself wait for until I could afford them. The idea of paying interest on a credit card makes me ill. I have paid interest only on cars and a mortgage. I even survived 11 years of a sick, abusive marriage and still have a relationship with my two kids.
Go to school!!!!! It doesn't have to be college. Get some training that enables you to get a job and then hang on to that job.

 

[Bookmaker]

IT manager for the government.

 

[Emya]

I'm unemployed. I did work at a shop, but it closed. I'm currently trying to find employment, as well as taking courses online.

 

[jayster]

These days, I am a graphic designer, self-employed from home.
This is a pretentious way of saying that I am a skint artist, trying to start a business.
I worked in factories, using a fake jokey / aggressive persona.
I did OK - made it to a good QC job but I had an accident in work.
Reading your posts makes me feel really sad Robby - I've worked in (& know of) plenty working environments where there has been just one gay man & no issues at all.
I always found getting and keeping a job really difficult. I was obstinate, inclined to be angry and had to work hard not to fall out with people. Not one day did I ever look forward to it, or enjoy it.
Robby, you say that you're creative and organised, is there something you could do self employed?
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