When I was studying maths at university, I was shocked to be informed by a careers advisor that around half the job opportunities were in the euphemistically-termed defence sector.

From Scientists for Global Responsibility:
Military has too much influence over science and technology, says new report
http://www.sgr.org.uk/press/SITL_19jan05.htm

This post was last modified: 01-24-2005 01:20 PM by Aeolienne.

University is so hyped up to be the best years of your life and all that crap. I can't help but look back and think, "Was that it?"

I'm a stay at home mom, but have worked at various jobs at various times with various results.

My husband works full time as a computer dude.

We're both un-dx'd aspies, our son is diagnosed with high functioning autism.

Funny, I would say based on our childhood stories that my husband is more severely affected than I was/am, but I think the fact that he's worked for so many years has helped him learn to mask it better. He's much better at socializing than I am...but I think he hates it more.

I worry about his health sometimes. Its stressful for him.

I have found construction work to be very low stress.  Few people to interact with, very fun repetative work, but also entertaining spacial thinking, not to mention the oportunity to daydream while doing repetative work.

I'm a full time stay home dad and househusband.  I'm not currently working as a nurse, but, come summer when Amber is at camp, I'll be putting in for a job at a local nursing home 1 day a week.(Perdiem as they say.)

Peace

The job market sucks, especially, apparently for ASDs.  I have never had a job that I really liked, nor one that lasted long, and those that did I did not work full time at.  I wonder where, when, and how one can find career that justifies their usefullness and thus proves they were not born out of time  or place on Earth or a different planet.  I have frequently gone back to college for one program or another, but it seems no amount of education or experience solves the problem.

I hear your frustration, I'v said the same thing to myself many times!  I'm not going to waste your time with advice or platitudes.  I can only repeat something that was told me many years ago and it was appropriate to me!!  I was 19-20 at the time  and was saying the same things as you said just now.  I was sitting in an office in my old college with a teacher and an older student.  This was 30 years ago and I'v never forgotten the moment.  The older student said, "If you can't find your niche, make your own niche".  I know it sounds pompous, and it took me 14 years to make my niche after that moment.  But that was me, I always was a slow learner.  What do you like to do??  What are your dreams??  What are you really good at???  Are you willing to tell the doubters to go F*** themselves and follow your own path.??  The guy who told me that was his own person and followed his own path.  I won't BS you, following your own path is hard and it really s**** at times, but, every once in a while, something would happen to reaffirm my decision and I haven't looked back.  Hang in there and take care!!

Peace

Hi, I'm brand new to this board, and I'm a student at University of Pittsburgh.  I'm about to graduate soon, and I was hoping to do something involving environmental issues, (I devoured Ross Gelbspan's "The Heat is On," and "Boiling POint" on global warming and have also recently become concerned about the coming peak oil crisis,) the last election depressed me a lot, but I thought doing something useful might help.  My mother claims to support the idea, and she has helped me find a lot of environmental internships, but she also keeps sending me stuff about government civil service jobs, (she's always playing up how much she worries about my health care,) and other stuff in publishing.  The thing is I can be social enough for short periods of time, but I find it exhausting, so I'm hoping to find something where I can bury myself in the job at hand.  My mom, though, keeps suggesting "practical" professions in light of the fact that I'm "disabled."

"My mom, though, keeps suggesting "practical" professions in light of the fact that I'm "disabled."

You could become an autism awareness activist and start by telling her that you aren't disabled

LOL!  :roll:   Amy-I'll try, but as pressing as the plight of our kind at the hands of NT's may be, I fear that if delay any longer on such issues as drinking water, and global warming there shall be no future for either species...though I don't suppose that need stop me from making such efforts in my personal life...

Full time web designer

Full time computer / IT man.
It's a great job except for the people. :roll:

I think a lot of aspies love computer stuff but the problem
with a service job is it requires dealing with unhappy computer users.
Unhappy because the computer doesn't read non verbal input and won't read their minds either.  Then I come along to help them with
the same skills the computer has for NV communication, Zip.

I think, perhaps then, I have an Aspie mind and an NT body, because it is not fast enough and does not always type out what I want to say.

mmm at the moment im a full time I.T. student at TAFE (its like a college here where you can only get up to diplomas). im doing certificate 3 in I.T at the moment, next semester is cert.4, then all of next year is 2006.

also, well i did 2yrs of mechanical engineering from 2001 to 2002 (now i WOULD pick THE\ hardest course at uni wouldnt i? lol) - anyways from aug.12 2002 onwards - my health spiralled downwards starting with my major panic attack while asleep - pls read my website for details... ok anywyas i deferred my uni after the end of the year - then the next yr some counsellor reckoned i should have a go at trying the music degree.. so i said. yes of course lol... i got into the course only 3 days before it started!@ cool huh.. but anywyas i got so freaked out etc taht i ended up getting my first bout of psychosis eek... so then ive been in teh psych ward 2x.. escaped from tehre 2x and i had a big break after then and got put on the disability support pension and just bludged for a while until july 2004 when i started this i.t. course.

my mind cannot cope uni-level work anymore - my mind has gone over the edge and it doenst take much information overload to make me sick oh well too bad  :oops:  :?  :shock:

Take a break for a bit kitkat, and let your mind rest *hugs*.