Aspies For Freedom

I'm curious what fields and industries ASC people tend to be in.  Now, let's see if I can figure out how to make this a poll.

Okay, I tried to make the poll cover all the major options I could think of, but obviously I couldn't get them all; that's why there's an "other" option.  And you can select more than one option if you have more than one job or if your job fits into more than one category.

Right now I work in retail (summer job), but someday I hope to have a job related to the college degrees I'm earning, so I checked Data/Computers/Accounting as well.

I wasn't surprised there are so many of us in the computer industries!  But what did surprise me were so many educators.  It would be interesting, I think, to break it down into what age group we are teaching.  (Me, preschoolers, although I found out this week that I've become redundant and need to go looking for another job.  I've got six weeks severance pay, though, and with my qualifications I should have no trouble finding something else.)
Alison

Currently PhD student, lecturerer from September onwards.

I work at a grocery store

I mostly work with computer data but also do some general filing.

I had to check 6 boxes...will this skew the results?

We need to expand the education category into separate students and teachers categories.  I mean, as a professional (albeit non-practicing) survey researcher, it probably doesn't pay what I'm making in Web design.

Better categories would include applied mathematics, applied science (possibly broken into chemist, biologist, physicist, microbiologist), engineering (broken into electrical, mechanical, petroleum, civil and so on), and computer fields (broken down into graphic designer, Web developer, database designer, data entry operator, computer programmer)...

Web developer is not necessarily the same as graphic designer.  I am not a designer, no intuitive sense of aesthetics, made what my third boss called angry fruit salad.  What else is Web design?  Computer programming.  Every Web page is a collection of information organized in a logical pattern (XML is the general parent of all such systems).  Certain HTML tags are little hooks that programs like JAWS and Home Page Reader look for to logically attach labels to form fields, columns and rows to table cells, and so on (Section 508 Federal Web requirements to make Federal government Web pages friendly to users with disabilities).  Then there are the style sheets, which are an abbreviated set of instructions to the browser to show HTML elements differently.

Finally, you have real programming.  SQL to add, update, and read data from data tables, Javascript for convenient functionality (except for users without Javascript or Javascript turned off), and last but not least, certainly not, the whole family of computer programs that live on the server (Cold Fusion, Active Server Pages, Perl, PHP) and make Web pages show data from tables, put data in tables, send and read email, provide password security, reuse code for headers and footers and so on.

I'm a Student of Medicine but i like very much the computers