What industries are the most welcoming for Aspies & Auties?

[Full Steam]

I can only speak for IT myself.

I think IT in all the technical sections is a very good choice - there are plenty of Aspies and NTs with low social skills, and who prefer email to speaking.

As long as one can find a field that's of interest it can be great.

This changes if you try to move into management though as executive functioning is required. It's still possible of course, but maybe not quite as welcoming.

 

[Tyrantus1212]

I heard engineering is pretty prevalent among Aspies. I am actually a software developer but I was told that's petty common among Aspies too. Lots of intellectual stuff, I believe.

 

[SusanLR]

I agree. Anything technical or IT oriented where you can work pretty much to yourself. My choice was medicine. Pharmaceuticals. I was lucky I found a large wholesale company with an area to myself most of the time. I also did a lot of delivery work for the company using my own vehicle. I could drive alone for hours in the night or have someone of my choice along for the ride.

 

[xudo]

I would say I.T. as I know a couple of people on the spectrum who are thriving in that sector.

 

[WereBear]

I got into IT just as it was starting, and it has always been useful to have those skills no matter what else I get hired to do.

 

[Alaska]

I can only speak for IT myself.

I think IT in all the technical sections is a very good choice - there are plenty of Aspies and NTs with low social skills, and who prefer email to speaking.

As long as one can find a field that's of interest it can be great.

This changes if you try to move into management though as executive functioning is required. It's still possible of course, but maybe not quite as welcoming.

I think a lot of night time work is probably Aspie friendly since it usually cuts down social interaction on the night shift. I have been thinking about this more since I have been on this site, because it is relevant to so many here.

Some of the ones I have seen mentioned on here, or that I thought of on my own are:

Postal clerk working nights.
Phlebotomist nights
Stock clerk for large department stores nights
Night police work, including support
Fire department
Night janitor or maintenence.
Night hospital worker
City street cleaner
Factory night shift

I am certain there are more, but I do not feel able to come up with them for now.

 

[Chance]

Super hero.... Sorry, I just woke up in one of those funky moods today, but its a good funky so I guess I will roll with it.

Add in an NT analyst, I want to try and figure out what is wrong with them and fix their "disease."
It's only fair right?

Oh wow in a backwards world, we would be the shrinks and they would be the freaks... I could have some fun days in that place, but it might make me twisted and sick, so I will pass.

 

[Nitro]

I took on the tech sector early on,first selling myself as a machinist and progressed to mechanical engineering.


I serviced mechanical items since my early childhood,so
during my career were stopoffs along the way that pushed me towards being an auto body technician,a service technician then later owning and operating a specialty shop with a focus on electronic systems in later model vehicles.

The forays into the automotive techie world financed my habits for high performance vehicles and provided me with a huge variety of vehicles to own and sell or trade.

 

[S-Head]

I would say I.T. as I know a couple of people on the spectrum who are thriving in that sector.

I totally agree about the I.T. job. There's so much to learn there by observation, and if you're the kind of person that notices something out of place when you enter the room, you can excel there.