What job do I want?


What job do I want?

For my information 
- Industries in which people on the autism spectrum are successfully employed
- Types of Jobs and Work Tasks



In theory, everything is well explained. There are many possibilities. Now I just have to find ways to prepare well for a profession. In 2011, Temple Grandin wrote down professions for adults on the autism spectrum. 

In order for people on the autism spectrum to work well, they must use their strengths. Many people on the autism spectrum have a strong long-term memory. This means that they can remember things well that were a long time ago. 


Examples: 
Do I remember patterns well?
Do I remember pictures well? 
Do I remember numbers well?
Do I remember logical structures well?





Visually demanding jobs:  

* Computer Programming – A wide open field with many jobs available, especially in industrial automation, software design, enterprise computers, communications, and networking systems.

* Drawing – Engineering documents and computer-aided drawing. This work can offer many opportunities.

* Advertising Art – Advertising and magazine layout can be done as freelance work.

* Photography – Still and video recording, TV cameraman can be done as freelance work.

* Equipment Design – In many industries, you often start as a draftsman and then move on to factory equipment design.

* Animal trainers or veterinary technicians – dog trainers, behavioural problems consultants.

* Automotive mechanic – Can imagine how the whole car works.

* Troubleshoot and repair computer problems – Can visualize problems in computers and networks. 



* Repair small appliances and lawn mowers – Can make a nice local business.

* Crafts of all kinds, e.g. wood carving, jewellery making, ceramics

* Laboratory Technician – Modifies and builds specialized laboratory equipment.

* Website design – Find a good niche market that can be done as freelance work.

* Construction – carpenter or welder. These jobs make good use of visual skills, but some people can't do them well due to motor and coordination problems.

* Computer graphics – Visual thinkers would be very good in this field, but there is more competition than in the business world or industrial computer programming.

* Building Maintenance – Repairs broken pipes, windows, and other things in an apartment complex, hotel, or office building.

* Factory Maintenance – Repairs and maintains factory equipment.




Jobs for a particularly strong memory: People who are good at maths, music or facts

These are jobs that don't require working memory and use excellent long-term memory.

* Accounting – Specialize in a field such as income tax.

* Library Science – Reference Librarian. Helps people find information in the library or on the Internet.

* Computer programming – Less visual types can be done as freelance work.

* Engineering – electrical, electronic and chemical engineering.

* Journalist – Very precise facts, can work as a freelancer.

* Proofreader – Proofreads manuscripts. Many people work freelance for larger publishers.

* Taxi Driver – Knows where every road is.

* Inventory control – Keep track of the stored goods in a store.



* Piano tuners and other musical instruments – Can work as a freelancer.
* Laboratory Technician – Operates laboratory equipment.

* Bank clerk – Very accurate money counting, less strain on working memory than a busy cashier who mainly gives change quickly.

* Office clerk and archiving jobs – Knows every file.

* Statistician – Works in many different fields such as research, census bureau, industrial quality control, and the like

Jobs for non-verbal people on the autism spectrum or people with weak verbal skills

Jobs that require a low level of working memory.

* Rearrange Library Shelf – Can remember the entire numbering system and shelf locations.

* Factory Assembly Work – Especially when the environment is quiet.

* Copy loading – Perform photocopying. Print jobs should be lined up by someone else.



* Cleaners – Clean floors, toilets, windows and offices.

* Replenish shelves – In many types of stores.

* Recycling plant – sorting work.

* Warehouse – loading and unloading trucks, stacking boxes.

* Gardening – lawn mowing and landscaping.

* Data entry – If the person has problems with fine motor skills, this would be a bad job.

* Fast food restaurant – cleaning and cooking jobs with low working memory load.

* Plant Care – Watering plants in a large office building.

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