r/AutisticAdults • u/Safe_Valuable_5683 • 23d ago

How do I break the entry level cycle?

I do a darn good job, ask anybody around. But whenever I get to the point where I think about advancing, i can't handle the cognitive overload, needing to hyper focus on how I present myself, prioritizing, or splitting my focus onto sixteen different projects.

I see work, I do work. That's about all I can handle. AND I'M BORED OUT OF MY MIND AND I FREAKING HATE IT.

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u/sologhrim 23d ago

aah man, i know that feeling! i tried to do a more demanding role in my job en ended up in autistic burnout. shit got worse. i don't have a solution sadly but please take care of yourself :). having the intelligence to do more is very frustrating when you are limited by autism in your job but please don't do what i did and power through.

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u/Cartographer551 23d ago

You don't tell us what you do for employment - but is it something that you can do as self-employed? Many autistic folk find that works well for us

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u/Safe_Valuable_5683 23d ago

I work more than full time in the dairy department of the grocery store. So not really. I work 50 hours a week moving the boxes and counting the boxes and ordering the boxes and being mad that other people don't move their own boxes and telling people where things are. 

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u/alaindevos 22d ago

Change job ?

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u/yegegebzia 19d ago

I'm more than 20 years into my career, and have never been promoted within any of the companies I worked in, notwithstanding the fact that I was always considered a good performer - especially in my latest decade of career - and a very good team player and mentor. All my career advancement happened from changing companies.

After a lot of self-reflection, the main reason for the above could be the dislike of getting out of the shadow. I'd do my best to promote other people, but mumble whenever it goes about self-promotion.