Choosing & Changing Careers when You are NeuroDivergent - an Autistic Perspective
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Patreon members and CZcams channel members had access to this video on November 8. The video’s public release will be January 5, 2022.
Welcome everybody happy Wednesday.
This week's video comes by request from one of my Patreon subscribers and their question is:
"I'm experiencing severe burnout, trying to find a way to change out of a career that doesn't make me happy in the least. Working has become almost impossible. I'm in technology and feel the pressure to stay because it pays well, and the skills I have honed for many years are focused in this field. I love the idea of working for myself, but I don't even know how to transition into that, when I'm so tired at the end of my workday. I also can't just quit and move back to my parents. I don't have that kind of support. I'm wondering if you could talk about that in future videos or blog posts: navigating careers as an Autistic adult, transitioning into a healthier work environment and starting in a new field. I know there are no easy or straightforward answers to these questions, but at this point, anything helps..."
If you would like to know my answer to Jessica's spectacular question, please stay tuned.
It's important that we all understand, that as Autistic People, there is not a unified autistic experience. We all have different opinions and very different experience, and I think it's great to share those things.
If you're a NeuroTypical watching, remember that this is just my experience as a NeuroDivergent Person.
Hopefully, this video will inspire other NeuroDivergent People to share their experiences as well, how they relate, and maybe even do not relate in the comments below.
I encourage you to listen to, and read, as many Autistic experiences as possible to best understand Autistic People.
I would LOVE to see more Autism vlogs by #ActuallyAutistic People.
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One more thing: It's okay to change! It's not your fault that the normies think a person should only be good at one thing :-). If you are not in a good place / path with work, school, whatever, then make changes for the better. With impulse control or mental health comorbidities, we are at a greater risk when working boring or otherwise crappy jobs. Our risks are better suited to greatness than mediocrity.
Nobody told me you can change your major in college; not knowing any other option, but knowing I could not move forward with the first degree I started, I let myself flunk out. This set me back years, and could have been easily prevented.
Niche / authority blogging can be perfect for a lot of neurodivergent people! Go deep into a special interest topic, info dump on people, make your own hours, do it from anywhere... there are so many advantages and alignments that it's like that career was made for us (as in many ways it was made *by* us)! CZcams has a ton of excellent resources on this topic. Good luck, everyone!
This worked well for me pre Google panda update. I hope to catch up to how to make it work again. Video content and marketing are the gaps I have now.
I've often wondered what it would be like to be "self-employed", wondered how to use my skills and experience, wondering how I can make an income out of all this....
I really resonate with what you said about stressing when there is too much micro management and demands put on you. It causes me to be unable to function.
Good video, I’m not autistic. My daughter is. But I am in technology/cyber security, and have been in the tech space for 27 years now. One thing I’ve found over the years, and particularly as I got into management, is that one point you mentioned is very true. Most people are not aware of half of the jobs out there simply because they haven’t been exposed to them. So to the person who asked you the question, if you’re in high tech, want to stay in that field, but want out of what you’re doing now, I’d be curious what you do now, and to have a discussion about some of the jobs out there that are very much in demand, but perhaps could be more suitable for you. I recognize that it’s easy for me to suggest that when I’m not autistic. I’m trying to understand it from my daughter’s perspective. But there are positions with varying degrees of stress that you could potentially move to while remaining in high tech, and there are different company types that are better suited for some of those positions.
Some examples of positions that I’ve found a lot of people didn’t consider that are related to tech include: product management, business analyst, documentation/tech writer, training and curriculum development (this one if you focus on curriculum development may require a lot less pressure) and many more.
Where is the heart button?!?! This is such an important topic, and you did a fantastic job with it - thank you so much!!! I have also learned so many of these lessons the hard way. You hit on what I think is the biggest miss in neurodivergent education and career planning, which is to diversify income sources. Almost nothing could be this good for a neurodivergent person's life! If you have an ND kid, start putting money aside for college or the moon or their basement lab or wherever they will go, but also in diversified investments, so that you can try and have secure and passive income sources to provide a safety net for the very likely times that they have trouble with work, bills, and so on. You're a divergent people are orders of magnitude more likely to face homelessness and suicide; having that safety net can make all the difference!
I'm actually looking to transition to an HR role right now so I can better advocate and influence business to be more accommodating and generally better for all employees (I have a long history of bad, emotionally draining jobs with awful business practices and poor management). Would you consider a follow-up video on what you would like to see businesses (and HR specifically) do differently to encourage and support the Neuro Divergent community (or send me a link if you already made one and I missed it)? I'm a recently self-diagnosed ND/ASD and really appreciate this video and your perspective!
I think it is so wonderful that you can recognize your weakness and try to advocate for yourself.
you're so intelligent and self aware. I'm believe I'm lower functioning and can't operate normally in society... this video was very helpful to me.
great video, my personal experiences with employment have been mixed. I have done work with disability organizations in both employed and voluntary roles, this can be great because you get to share experiences and help people and maybe just maybe change things for the better, on the other hand it can be very unprdictable i the UK a lot of these jobs in my experience are with charities which makes them reliant on funding plus if a charity gets taken over then as i experienced they can begin to pathologize and patronise the people they a supposed to be helping, i actually had to leave a volunterring role because i could not take it any more once
I needed this today! Ty
Subbed. I am glad I found you. I took the little cabin, littler bills route ten yrs ago. I take care of a non verbal 85 yo now but I'm anxiously planting the seeds for blogging again. Print on demand, freelancing, ebooks on my special interests. It helps seeing someone doing it! ❤
What you are saying is so true its totally been my experience thanks for making this video ❤
I am a certified special education teacher. I love the kids and believe I can help the neurodivergent kids better than neurotypicals. However, I have left teacher three times, and I'm only 25, because of burnout. I'm happier cleaning, even though I make less.
This was beyond helpful. Thank you so much 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This was very helpful
Thank you very much and the Best of Luck 💚🤞
11:53 Yeah, me too. It's why I cannot do retail and physical labor work anymore.
Same problem, in the technology field completely burned out.
I hope you’ve figured out ways to transcribe faster with technology by now. It’s crap doing it manually 😂
I have technology but it still takes hours to transcribe a 15 minute video