Daniel on Employment and Independent Living

[MUSIC PLAYING] The jobs that I've done recently, all of them has been through networking and just building on the network connections I've done from the past. So each speaking gig, every speaking gig I could say, except for one instance, it's all been through networking and word of mouth, and meeting people, and introducing myself, same with refereeing. I get it through just meeting people. And through those connections, I get more and more games and more and more opportunities. And that's why I've got to be where I'm at today. Work is meaningful at some capacity, whether you like your job or not. It's meaningful, because you can always learn something. It can be professionally. It can be hands-on. It can be just learning how to take care of yourself with bills. You always can learn something. So it's meaningful in that aspect. Each time I pay my bills, that's meaningful, because it's something successful that I achieve for that moment. One of the toughest challenges is being able to develop self-control each and every day. Self-control to get up each morning, self-control to stay active in my job, to also not to speak my mind all the time. Because in the workforce, you can't speak your mind. You have to actually be professional and actually have to be politically correct sometimes in you say things. So each and every day is a work to be able to develop self-control. And the more I develop it, the more confident I become along that process. My autism is positive in jobs that are related to attention to detail. So as a referee, you have to be attentive to detail with any play that could happen, how to handle that play, what's the rule on the play when that happens, and how to handle yourself in that situation. So in that aspect that's helped me a lot. And it's given me more and more opportunities to ref.