What job can 18 year old do, sitting down?

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My daughter is due to finish college this year. She wants a job, but has some disabilities that affect what she can do. She will struggle to be on her feet due to EDS and regular dislocations, and has high functioning ASD but social interactions make her physically exhausted.
can people give me an idea of what interesting jobs you do/know of.
Shes got all her GCSEs, a love of cats and a good digital artist. Her college course is in digital art/media.
She doesn’t want to do shop work due to above. Doesn’t like little kids.

Anything in finance, admin, receptionist, secretary, call centre, emergency services call handler, train driver, taxi driver, pilot, graphic designer, artist, tutor, music teacher. There is quite a lot of sitting down jobs. What does she want to do?

I think that’s the issue, she doesn’t know. Admin, secretary, call centres, tutors, are all customer facing and she can’t manage that much social interactions a day.

Admin generally isn't customer facing, where I work the receptionists and secretaries talk to the clients the admin people just do admin in the background and occasionally email people.

The problem is most jobs especially when you start out involved a certain degree of social interaction even if it's not customers it will be colleagues.

If I were her I'd go and meet with a recruiter. At her age she should look into apprenticeships too so she gets structured training. Realistically she is going to need to start wuth quite a basic job at this stage.

She also might look at town planning (not something I know much about but I think it sounds interesting and needs a visual eye), or look for opportunities to work for creative professionals, maybe in gaming companies, architectural practices, garden designers.

We have started to look at apprenticeships too. She’s thinking lab type work. She can do a certain amount of social interactions a day, so working with others would be manageable. She’s willing to try and has applied for roles, but it’s hard to even get interviews tbh.
Im just hoping there’s a job out there that isn’t going to mean she has to physically or mentally damage herself daily because all that’s out there for her at her age is shop work

Definitely more than shop work available if she looks down the apprenticeship route.

She should start with a temp agency that fill office roles, like office angels.

She should be able to pick up some experience that way, doing even just one day cover shifts to get started.

What kind of lab work? Most labs I know require you to be up and down quite a bit unfortunately.

If she doesn’t want the customer/ public type interactions, lab based work could be perfect! I work in the asbestos industry and was lab manager for two years. You don’t need any prior experience or qualifications to start as a trainee. The training and qualification will be provided and paid for by the company, as all lab techs in the industry need a certain type of certification.

The job is seated and within a set team of people. I’ve done some lab tech work for a few different companies in the industry. It’s an interesting enough job, not hugely demanding or intense and no customer facing aspects.

Google “p401 laboratory trainee”!

There are a lot of apprenticeships in the Civil Service that might suit. Because the government are trying to cut jobs, apprentices are part subsided so there are more of those than regular entry level jobs advertised right now.
Google 'Civil Service Jobs'

Data entry or data analysis? If she has digital skills and is good visually, data visyalisation migbt be an avenue to explore?

I would second looking at apprenriceships. A lot of office based jobs offer them these days.

DS's school friend she did data entry

You could contact Access to Work for help too.

My DD sounds very similar and the EDS can vary so much day to day.... She's not ready to work yet but hoping to find something suitable eventually!

Proof reading? Could also have the advantage of being able to WFH I would have thought.