Find Work
That Fits
Meaningful work for autistic adults. Room for the rest of life.
One-time payment · Explore at your own pace
Find Work That Fits connects your interests and education with the hours, surroundings, and support you need. See suggested jobs, what would need changing or confirming, and a practical first step.
For autistic adults, parents, and other supporters. Use it on your own or together.
Your young person has valuable skills and interests.
Finding work that fits them can be hard.
FINDING WORK YOU CAN DO—AND SUSTAIN
The hours, noise, social expectations, or lack of support can make a job hard to sustain. When the usual path doesn’t fit, it can be difficult to picture what else is possible.
Two jobs with the same title can have very different hours, sensory demands, supervision, and social expectations. This tool helps your young person look at those details alongside their interests and skills, so they have a clearer starting point for exploring work. You can explore together, or they can use it on their own.
Find Work That Fits
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A FEW STEPS AT YOUR PACE
How it works
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Answer questions about you
Choose answers about your interests, education, hours, surroundings, and support.
20 questions, one at a time, with a progress bar. Skip any question; extra detail is optional.
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See your Work Fit Profile
Bring your answers together and see what to look for in the work. Change an answer whenever you want to explore a different possibility.
A visual overview, with your full written answers available.
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Explore suggested jobs
Start with three ideas. See why each came up and what needs checking. Open an idea for questions you can use and a first step.
Keep ideas that interest you and explore related work.
Understand what makes work sustainable
Before the questions, you can read four short pages about how hours, surroundings, and support affect your energy for work and everyday life. You can skip them or return later.
Start with a few minutes.
Save your answers when you want to pause, then return when it suits you.
Example 01 · A few hours of work
Example 01 · Using practical experience
“I like fixing things. I need a few hours of work at home.”
Your Work Fit Profile
- Interests and experience
- Vehicles, hands-on work, and repairs
- Education
- High school / GED
- Weekly hours
- A few hours Essential
- Where I work
- At home Essential
- Working for myself
- I’m interested, with help managing business tasks.
Other ways to work · Self-employment options
Repair bicycles brought to you
Offer a repair you already know how to do, with booked drop-off and collection times.
Why this came up
Your repair experience and interest in vehicles connect with this idea. Booked drop-offs could let you work from home.
What to work out
Check safe repair skills, tools, storage, local permission, and insurance. Include messages, parts orders, and collection times in the work.
Keep your needs in view: Would repairs and business tasks fit your available hours? Who could help with bookings and payments?
One first step
Contact a local small-business adviser: “What permission and insurance would I need to repair bicycles at home?” Start with a repair you already know how to do safely.
Before offering the service
Check likely customers, costs, and what you could charge. Income would depend on bookings and expenses.
Another service to explore: Car detailing by appointment. Compare the physical effort, noise, cleaning products, and setup costs with your needs.
“I enjoy caring for plants. I need a few hours a week at one familiar workplace.”
See suggested jobs, why they came up, and what to ask about.
Find Work That Fits
YOUR WORK FIT PROFILE
Your answers
Interests
Weekly hours
Where I work
Support
Plants and the outdoors
A few hours a week (essential)
One familiar workplace
Written instructions
Contact with people
● Mostly independent
One at a time
Mostly independent, little public contact.
Familiar team
Your full profile keeps the answers and notes you choose to include.
A SUGGESTED JOB
Interior plant care assistant
Water, prune, and check the plants inside offices or other buildings.
Why this came up
This role uses your interest in plants. A few hours caring for plants at one building could suit the hours and familiar setting you want.
What to check next
Ask whether the role offers a few hours at one building, written instructions, and help with lifting or covering a missed visit.
How the conditions compare
Weekly hours
A few hours a week
Similar to your answer
Changes of place
One familiar setting
Similar to your answer
These describe the arrangement in the example. Ask whether the employer could offer it.
What you could do next
Start by looking up one indoor plant-care company near you. Ask whether it needs help for a few hours a week at a single building.
Look for indoor plant-care companies ↗
Pay and places to look
BEFORE YOU SEARCH FOR OPENINGS
A clearer picture of your options.
Specific steps to explore them.
Understand why an idea came up
Your selected interests, experience, degree subject, and training plans help organize the suggestions. See the connection to your answers.
Keep your working needs in view
See where a job’s demands differ from a need you marked essential, and which conditions still need confirming. Open an idea for a specific question and first step.
Explore other ways to work
Explore contract work, consulting, self-employment, or a smaller employed role. See what each involves and who you could approach.
Example 02 · A master’s degree and part-time work
Example 02 · A master’s degree and part-time work
“I want to use my degree. I need part-time work, with some days at home.”
Your Work Fit Profile
- Education
- Master’s degree · Statistics
- Interests and experience
- Health, data, and working with numbers
- Weekly hours
- A part-time week Essential
- Where I work
- At home, or a mix of home and a workplace Essential
- Income
- A predictable amount Essential
Job ideas · A suggestion based on these answers
Biostatistician
Use statistics to help design studies, analyze data, and answer questions about health or biology.
Why this came up
Your studies in statistics connect with this work, alongside your interests in health and working with data.
What to find out
Weekly hours · Essential
Look for part-time openings, or ask whether an employer could offer a smaller set of responsibilities within the paid hours.
Your essential needs still to confirm: work location; predictable pay.
A question you can use
“Could this role be part-time with a smaller set of responsibilities? Which duties would be included, and would any meetings and other work fit within those hours?”
One first step
Search for “part-time biostatistician” and open one job description. Look for weekly hours. If it leaves this unclear, use the question above when contacting the employer.
Another idea to compare: Operations research analyst. Look at its modeling and software requirements alongside the hours and location offered.
“I want to use my degree. I need part-time work, with some days at home.”
You worked hard for your education. Look for work that uses it and fits the hours and surroundings you need.
Find Work That Fits
YOUR WORK FIT PROFILE
Your answers
Interests
Education
Weekly hours
Where I work
Data, science, and health
Master’s degree · Statistics
A part-time week (essential)
Home and a workplace (essential)
Pace and deadlines
● Agree on deadlines
Set pace
I need to agree on realistic deadlines and organize the time between them.
Room to change it
A SUGGESTED JOB
Biostatistician
Use statistics to help design studies, analyze data, and answer questions about health or biology.
Why this came up
Your statistics degree and interests in data and health connect with this work.
Essential needs to check
Ask whether the role offers part-time hours and some days at home. Check how meetings, deadlines, and responsibility for the analysis fit those hours.
How the conditions compare
Weekly hours
You want a part-time week
Ask about this
Contact with people
A small familiar team
Similar to your answer
Search a university or hospital’s careers page for “part-time biostatistician” or “statistical analyst.” Check the hours and working location in each listing. Ask how meetings and deadlines fit the hours offered.
What you could do next
Pay and places to look
A few things you might be wondering
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Yes. Find Work That Fits is for autistic adults, parents, and other supporters.
You can use it on your own, with your young person, or with someone you trust.
Some questions let you note whether you’d like to decide things together.
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Many people answer the questions in about 15-25 minutes.
The time can vary depending on how much you write in each answer, whether you pause to think or talk things over with someone, and how long you spend reading your job suggestions.
You can answer all 20 questions in one sitting or spread them across several days.
Select Save progress to keep a return link or download your answers. Use that link or file when you come back.
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That’s okay. You can skip any question and come back to it later.
Your answers about hours, surroundings, and support also shape your suggestions, so you’ll still get useful ideas even if your interests feel unclear right now.
Seeing a few suggestions can also help you notice what draws you in.
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Find Work That Fits helps you decide what to look for before you search for openings. It connects your selected interests, education, experience, and working needs with job ideas, then explains why each idea came up and what needs checking.
Use the suggested questions, search terms, and links to investigate current openings elsewhere. You can also explore contract work, self-employment, and smaller sets of responsibilities. Each employer’s hours, duties, and support still need confirming.
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Select Save progress to keep a return link or download your answers. Use that link or file when you come back.
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This tool offers a different way to explore possibilities. The job suggestions come from your young person’s answers about their interests, skills, education, and what makes work manageable for them.
They can explore on their own or choose someone to help. They can change their answers, see how the suggestions change, and decide which ideas interest them. Each suggestion explains why it came up and what they would need to find out about the actual work.
That can give you something concrete to discuss together, with their preferences and needs guiding the conversation. They choose what feels worth exploring and when they want to take another step.
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Yes. You can use Find Work That Fits on your own or with someone you choose, including a therapist, speech-language pathologist (SLP), occupational therapist (OT), coach, employment professional, parent, partner, or friend.
They can help you think through questions, understand suggestions, and discuss what might make work manageable. You choose which answers to share, which ideas to explore, and whether you want their help. You can also save your profile to look at together later.