• What are your favorite subjects in school? Why do you find these classes interesting?
• What kind of work might interest you? What do you know about those jobs?
• What do you most often do in your free time? Are you in any clubs or activities at school? Are you involved in your community?
• What do you think you are really good at? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do your parents, teachers, and friends think?

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My Future is a fantastic resource that helps you build your own personal profile based on your interests, values, education, location, ideal work conditions, skills, desired life-work balance, and future aspirations. This website can also guide you beyond choosing a job with its resources for planning and implementing your career.

• You should pick a college major in an area that will lead you to a job.
• You should choose a job that has a well-defined goal or endpoint.
• You should "sell" your work in order to compensate for weaker social skills. By creating a portfolio of your work, you will be considered good in a specialized field, and that will put you at an advantage.
• You have much better long-term memory than most people.
• The demands that your job places on your short-term working memory must be kept low.
• Your boss must recognize your social limitations, and it is your responsibility to express this to your boss.  

• There are very few jobs in this field.  Jobs are much more plentiful in computer programming and accounting.
• If this is your interest, and you are good at math and remembering facts, consider becoming a statistician, who works in many different fields such as research, industrial quality control, and for U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

• If this is your interest, consider becoming a journalist, who works with very accurate facts, or a copy editor who corrects manuscripts.  Both of these jobs often allow you to work freelance.
• If you have poor verbal or social skills, consider becoming a copier.  You can run photocopies on the machine.

• If you are good at math or remembering facts, Engineering allows you to excel as a non-visual thinker.  You can be a laboratory technician and modify, build, and run laboratory equipment, or you can study to become an electrical, electronic, or chemical engineer.

• If you are a visual thinker, and you are a skilled drawer, consider becoming a drafter.  Drafting involves drawing pictures on the computer as well as by hand, and drafting can lead to careers in engineering, design, and architecture.

• If you are good at music or remembering facts, music allows you to excel as a non-visual thinker.  You can tune pianos and other musical instruments, which can be done as freelance work.
• If you are a visual thinker, consider studying commercial art.  You can organize advertising and magazine layouts, or as a photographer, you can work as a TV camera person or take still pictures.
• If you are a visual thinker, and you are a skilled drawer, consider becoming a drafter.  Drafting involves drawing pictures on the computer as well as by hand, and drafting can lead to careers in engineering, design, and architecture.

• An automobile mechanic has the ability to visualize how the entire car works.  You can also repair other appliances, such as lawnmowers or tractors.
• A building maintenance person usually fixes broken pipes, windows and other things in an apartment complex, hotel or office building.
• A factory maintenance person usually repairs factory equipment.
• A janitor usually cleans floors, toilets, windows, and offices, and makes basic repairs.

• A carpenter or welder needs to have very good visual skills.
• A craft maker also requires very good visual skills, and can create wood carvings, jewelry, pottery, etc.

• If you have poor verbal skills or poor social skills, or if you are good at remembering facts, Library Science allows you to excel as a non-visual thinker.  You can re-shelve library books, which requires you to memorize the entire numbering system and shelf locations, or as a reference librarian, you can help people find information in the library or on the Internet.
• If you have poor verbal or social skills, consider becoming a copier.  You can run photocopies on the machine.

• If this is your interest, or if you have poor verbal or social skills, consider working in a warehouse, as a truck loader and box stacker, or as an inventory keeper, who tracks all of the merchandise stocked in a store. You can also get a job restocking shelves in nearly any type of store, or you can find a position that involves data entry.  You can also get a job in a factory along an assembly line, or as a telemarketer, who gets to repeat the same thing over and over.

• If you are good at math or remembering facts, Computer Science allows you to excel as a either a visual or a non-visual thinker.  You can become a computer programmer, which can often be done freelance.  Within computer programming, there are many jobs available in industrial automation, software design, business computers, communications and network systems.
• If you are a visual thinker, Computer Animation may be an interesting field, but remember that there is more competition in this field than in business or industrial computer programming.
• If you are a visual thinker, consider becoming a computer repair person.  You must be able to visualize the problems within computers and networks.
• If you are a visual thinker, consider becoming a web page designer.  This job can often be done as freelance work.
• Avoid becoming a video game designer.  There are many more jobs in industrial, communications, business, and software design computer programming. This job also exposes people to violent images.

• If you are good at math or remembering facts, Accounting allows you to excel as a non-visual thinker.  You can become very knowledgeable in a specialized field such as income taxes.
• As a bank teller, you must become a very accurate money counter.  Unlike a cashier, you will not have to make many transactions in a short period of time. 
• As a bookkeeping clerk, you must know where every file is located.

• An animal trainer or a veterinary technician is responsible for teaching obedience and solving behavioral problems.
• If you have poor verbal or social skills, you can care for plants in a large office building.
• If you have poor verbal or social skills, and like spending time outside, you can care for lawns and gardens with a landscaping company. 

• This site describes the primary responsibilities of hundreds of jobs and where you can find more information
• You can also search for a job based on your interests

• This site contains information about specific employers, careers, and industries
• Also offers information regarding how to apply to an internship or a job