Aspies For Freedom

Of the specific jobs listed, please choose the one you think is most attractive to a generic Aspie.  I know that's a generalizing term, but for the specific purpose of this poll, I would say to just go with it.

I know it may be difficult to choose only one job above other good candidates, but try your best.  If you have trouble deciding, perhaps choose the job that caters best to your own abilities, better than the others.

I'm thinking about driving a taxi one day, but I don't really want to involve myself so much with people at the moment.

I notice most of those are nerd jobs or poorly paid ones ;p

Lab technician... Few people, lots of science.

All of the above.

Aspie or not, I believe that you can be anything if you put the effort into it.

There's nothing wrong with having a "nerd job" as long as the pay is decent.  Maybe the nerds just need to know how to negotiate a salary.

I work in IT, but got my degree just as the IT bubble burst.  The pay is enough to have a little left over after bills and expenses, but I didn't get the degree so I could just get by.  (The American Dream my ***!)  I'll be leaving that position one day when I find something better.  For now, I'm just glad I didn't end up being a "basement geek" or worse.

If these were the only choices I had I would choose accounting. However I know, from a relatives experience, that this is not a socially void job.

LOL I'd like to know who specifically chose "Courtroom Stenographer."

That was part of my goal with this poll, to put in something most "clinically significant" Aspies would have extreme difficulty with.  And to see if anyone would deliberately, or unknowingly, chose that option.  I suppose some Aspies might be interested in courtroom stenography, but personally I have my doubts.

Do you know how much strain courtroom stenography (writing down a speaker's words exactly as they said it, sometimes multiple speakers at once) puts on short-term working memory?

Most if not all Aspies have a mild-to-strong deficiency in short-term working memory, which they make up for by having a detailed longterm memory--at least for things that interest them.

As for the rest of the poll, I would say to keep the votes coming.  Indeed maybe the right way to look at it is, if *you* had to choose from that list, which one would be best suited to your Aspie traits.  That combined with your natural gifts/predilections, of course.

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Nothing wrong with a "nerd" job, nor a poorly paid one.

Programming isn't, at least not if you work for the right company (which I don't, but at least I get to be programmer, database analyst, web designer, graphic designer, marketing researcher and systems analyst all rolled into one )

So you don't make as much money as other people.  Is that a reason to hang your head low every day?

So you have a job that has a nerd stereotype.  Another reason to feel bad about yourself?

Dude the point is, to each his own.  There are some people who work in pickle factories who are happy.

I don't like the though of having alot of responibility in my job, an ideal job in my mind and which is maybe seldom available is one where you might take a break and come back stronger a week later. Some kind of freelancing maybe, I am bored if the job isn't new and challenging. And the there would be art, which apparently isn't a good source of money

I mean, it's a risk. You might not earn much money but also you may do.

LOL, nowt wrong with pickle factories

My first job was packing tablets in a pharmaceutical packaging company, it was tiring and noisy but the job itself was very satisfactory as it was repetitive and orderly.