u/Boah_met

Hello there. I got diagnosed as twice-exceptional as an adult and I'm currently at NEET status. I currently live in Brazil but have a Spanish citizenship by descent, which I plan to take advantage to and move there (do note that, as it's by descent, I don't need a work visa, so I don't need to go there in IT or nursing to meet the crazy market demand for immigrants in Europe).

I absolutely love sociologyanthrophologyhistory (roughly in that order). Sometimes I end up searching for some information online just to pass the time ("ah I just want to read on reproductive labor today") and end up downloading a whole PDF about the subject and reading a 300-page book in one sitting with no pause to eat or drink water. I 100% lock in that.

I also want to get a comfortable wage. I suspect that wage to me might either be higher or lower than standard. In one side I absolutely have a lot of finnickies that drain money. I need to go to a specialist doctor every 3 months to get a restricted prescription for lifelong biweekly medicine and I fare much better living alone and in silent areas than with others or loud areas (very high psychological need for control of my surroundings and noise sensivity due to the autism). In the other hand, college is free on my country, I won't have children and although a car would be nice I don't really need one if public transport and pedestrial transportation systems are efficient. I think I ideally would earn above-average pay, but it doesn't need to be a doctor's pay either.

Important to note that I also like computers, but not particularly in a profitable way. I joined a CS major as a teen who thought he'd love to be a dev, but dropped from a CS major because I realized I don't love coding by itself (also because I was depressed). I'm neutral to it, it's a tool. It's weird and hard to explain, but thinking deep down I think it's on morals. It's pointless work for a company that probably didn't even need to exist. It's not even what about the act of coding, but the sheer pointlessness behind doing something I don't like or dislike in a tight timeline with a boss on my neck for a product that didn't even need to exist. It's Sisyphean: There are good reasons for moving rocks around, but doing it for no good reason at all is torture. I'm pretty much not motivated by money or luxury. Life would be easier if I was because then I wouldn't be stuck at this connudrum.

I thought on going to med school some times. It's not the worst option on the table but I'm somewhat bothered by the idea. There's probably something better for me out there. I'm very sensitive to my environment and can't really lie or pretend to save my life. The dettachment from my peers is one of the reasons I left CompSci and I don't mingle with 95% of doctors or med students either. I wouldn't be able to network.

I also got interested to work in library science/museum work even though I'm not exactly passionate about it because the work sounds comfortable and I like the idea of overseeing a system and keeping it working, but the area has pretty shit pay where I live, so I turned the idea down.

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u/Boah_met — 17 days ago