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I work hard - I do so by taking as many tasks as possible and using my focus to get it done.. I've had 3-4 employers and all have agreed that I've been the hardest worker.. I do realize that to get to the top I need to make my socializing go from 10% of my day to 80% so that wont ever happen

I work for a jerk. Low pay, hours depend on how much he thinks I should work. Lousy situation. Got let go in my last gov job because I ran afoul of Office Politics. I can never see how evil some people are.

i have a job at wal-mart. its a good job. the only negative thing about my job is that i have to deal with lots of stress on the weekends. i have been a cart pusher for a little over 2 years now. i get a long pretty well with some of my co-workers. theres one that i have a problems with.

I average about 50 hours a week loading and unloading millwork trim, doors and windows for a lumber yard. Everybody there seems to like me because I always focus on getting the job done, and I'm out of the loop as far as workplace politics is concerned. For what it's worth, I'm also one of the lowest paid employees there.

I worked 8 years doing overnights with CD/ADHD/every other DX under the sun teenagers.They seemed to really like me ,which seemed odd because teenagers hated me when I was one.My co-workers were mostly open minded liberal types who tolerated my "quirks"I ended up burning out from the stress of new management that were "fascists".I have worked overnights with 4 DD guys in their house.I like them and they like me but my co-workers drive me nuts because they are lazy and rude to the residents.It really pushes my buttons and I want to quiet sooooooobad.I just dont know what else to do.I have heard most DD companies are incompetent and hire unskilled workers.I just wish there was a job I could do from home but I have no computer skills and know know one who wants to pay me to read all day(or do crafts and pet my cats and bunnies).

I work in the correspondence department of a local public utility company. Customers who send in written correspondence (fax, e-mail, postal mail), requests for information, questions, whatever, I'm in the department that processes them. Which means I spend most of the day at my desk going through a pile of letters and faxes, writing and snding replies or routing to other departments as necessary. So effectively I work on my own, at my own pace, as long as what needs to be done gets done. And since I'm always willing to help out if needed, I get a reputation for being a "team player" even though I don't think of myself that way.

I'm working at a temporary job where the harder I work, the less I get paid. I'm working 60+ hours a week, but don't get paid for overtime. I'll get paid for the 60 hours at my base rate, but that's it. Towards the end of my workweek, I feel I'm volunteering my time and it is hard to be motivated. Especially when there are other people there that barely do anything and get paid significantly more than I do. If I leaned around and ate pastries most of the day, I doubt I'd make more money, but the individual that does this certainley does. It is very hard to deal with.

I work at Best Western in housekeeping. I have worked there for over a year now. I am working longer this year because I work full time in the laundry room. I am making more money too because of the hours I'm putting in and the two raises I've gotten.

I work for a city government as a mapping/GIS technician. I recently got a raise, as well as countless compliments and awards for my job performance. Unfortunately, I will be leaving that job in order to attend school full-time in January.

Tim

They say the Silicon Valley is full of Aspies... I can't say because I only recently discovered I have AS and so never really noticed anyone like me. I worked as a software engineer (coding) for a big software company for more than a dozen years. At first it was great, doing what I love and getting acknowledgement. But over time I got pretty bored with the work, but felt trapped... I had some stock options that kept me there so it just didn't make sense financially to move anywhere. I developed an attitude that I wasn't really interested in my work but had to stay because of the money. A few years ago the stock options were no longer keeping me there but I was still unable to figure out what else to do... I hadn't really kept my software skills marketable and it was a decade since I learned the "fresh stuff" in school, so I again felt trapped and unmotivated but continued to stay there. In the Silicon Valley it is very unusual for people to stay in the same job more than a few years so I seemed stuck to most people and to myself.

8 months ago I stopped working there and decided to take time away from work to figure out who I really am and find work that was satisfying for me. It was clear that my social skills were the most limiting thing; they had prevented me from getting into management. So I have been going to Men's groups as a way of working on getting comfortable with other people. I consider myself lucky to have the resources to do this kind of exploration, and it was by doing this exploration that I learned I have AS.

I had been leaning towards getting myself into a "helping profession" like teacher or even doing volunteer work to find satisfaction, but my social skills were always a big impediment. I'm a stutterer too, and that adds to my communication issues. Knowing I have AS I'm now a little less confident that I could make that kind of job work for me. I'm thinking now that maybe some technical job would be good for me... my dream job might be to work on engineering electric cars but I don't have the technical background in that field currently.

The real dilemna I faced at work was that because I wasn't good with people I tended (and was pushed) into working mostly by myself. That was comfortable for a while but I realize now that I need to put myself in situations that force me to relate to other people. I tried setting things up with my boss essentially having them force me to do more social things, but that kind of fizzled out... bosses don't want to take on the role of social worker or coach. I kept trying to find the motivation within myself to get myself to be more social but that didn't really ever happen; I just didn't find the motivation within myself.

The one thing I learned I think is that setting some big social goal for myself (like being a manager for instance) doesn't really motivate me; it just seems like too big of a task and I don't know where to start. I really need to break it down into small steps (e.g. joining Men's groups) and work on each step individually.

I just received an email from a friend asking me to help him teach a science class in middle school for 1-2 hours a week and that sounds like a great opportunity for me to explore doing something new.

I am a telemarketer for a payroll company.

Must admit I'm doing alright as a contract software engineer.

There were some bad patches when I was much younger, a touch of depression and difficulty focusing on my work. I have done other kinds of work as breaks from this career - teaching mathematics and leading walking holidays. Yes I know these are not natural territory for an Aspie, but I found I really learned a lot by having to focus on weaknesses like remembering everybodys name and learning to care for people, and overcame Aspie problems that I might not have done if I'd played safe and stuck to computers.

But I've only ever made serious money from software.