Finding and Keeping jobs - Tips and Advice

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The biggest mistake I see is people here doing too much to make up for some perceived shortcoming.
You want to do the same amount of work as everyone else. No more, no less.

Unless you are making $$$

I'm not sure about that one...
I held a job doing food production for almost 8 years...but it was stress to the max, 30 minute lunch break (which dropped down to 0 minutes shortly before I quit), 50-60 hours a week of heavy manual labor that left my body broken and useless, and probably not a living wage (pretty soon what I was paid will be below MI minimum wage).

Did have a chair, though!

"Horrible people" is rather unavoidable, people just suck. I was lucky enough to be in a position where I didn't have to interact with horrible people too often, but when I did, I just try to keep a mindset of "just smile and nod, try not to make enemies". Things go so much smoother that way. Some people are just looking for a fight, and it's best not to encourage them.

So I kind of got the reputation of "he's real quiet and weird, but he does a good job".

Probably more difficult if you're a cashier or in customer service where you HAVE to interact with people you don't work with (who are often irate) on a constant basis.


This is absolutely true, but I learned the hard way that "adding value to your employer" does not also mean "increasing your pay wage".
One time I was running two machines at the same time, and a co-worker asked if they were paying me double for it, and I said "no".
Wisdom.
They'll want to shift you over to a higher paying position, but keep you at your previous pay. Cheap labor makes them very happy.


Definitely. Employers and co-workers would rather have you ask a stupid question than have you make a stupid mistake.
Some of those mistakes can be VERY expensive, and/or can cost the company customers.
You might even catch a mistake that someone else made.

I can't find any jobs. Not that I'd want to work one even if someone offered a position, but I'd begrudgingly do the work of course, and I'm very good at pretending to enjoy it. If you smile big enough, nobody bothers you. It's an uncomfortable limbo to be in because one needs money to survive. I am thinking of just giving up. Lately I've been thinking that I should take all of my savings and fly somewhere I've always wanted to go, and just see how that pans out 'til the money runs dry. But this isn't the 50s so nobody's hiring people to pick peaches for the day, so hitchhiking in current year just seems silly.

Is anyone else having trouble finding work? I must've applied to literally everything that I'm qualified and overqualified to do.

Are there any specific platforms hiring autistic level 1 individuals to work remotely?

I came across this video when I was doing interview preparation and thought it had some good tips. The title for it is terrible and click baitey but if you ignore the title it has some good nuggets of information in it. I don't condone lying during an interview. It does more harm than good in my opinion but I see some of the points she was trying to make. Just thought I would share

I had one tip that I just thought to add and this dosen't always work but thought I would put it on here. If you happen to get a rejection after an interview I try to ask if they are able to give any feedback. You can either ask in your reply email to a rejection or you can try asking by phone. I had an instance today where I called the recruiting manager after a rejection and was able to get some. I try to put it as "Would there be any feedback you would be comfortable giving me for self-improvement purposes?" A lot of times you may hear nothing back but on occasion you may get some info back.