Get a Master’s degree, dig ditches – An Autism Job Request
I have never seen a job I wanted. I went to school until there were no more degrees to get. After graduation I sought and got a series of jobs that any ditch digger could do. It did not occur to me to aim higher until I realized all these low-aiming jobs are painfully dull.
I have sought and received excellent career counseling but sadly found no career ideas with them.
One light is here: Socrates Cafe. For about 6 years now I have been facilitating two such groups and am told by the long-attending participants that I am especially good at it. What I do is ask good questions of people which results in good answers. I also make sure people don’t talk too much nor too little. And when someone is speaking I make sure they have fully expressed themselves before anyone else gets to speak.
No one does this for a living. Many skilled people do it as a part of their living (journalists — DO NOT ask me to cover a town hall meetings; managers — I dread the thought of disciplining employees, Chairpersons of the Boards — yeah, right) but because this is my “special interest” I find any job that merely includes group facilitation to be uninteresting.
I would be thrilled beyond imagination if you can help me.
Have you looked into facilitating focus groups for market research? Someone has to facilitate the focus group and keep things on track. This typically requires travel.
Just an idea that you might check out.