{"id":10940,"date":"2024-08-08T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2024-08-08T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:24:03","slug":"for-some-with-autism-a-watch-factory-is-the-perfect-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10940","title":{"rendered":"For Some With Autism, a Watch Factory Is the Perfect Job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt\u2019s not just the focus in the first 10 pieces,\u201d the owner said. \u201cIt\u2019s being able to maintain that kind of a focus when you\u2019re doing No. 400 and No. 401.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As part of his interview for a job at FTS American Manufacturing in Mesa, Max Cain was asked to take a table clock apart and then put it back together.<\/p>\n

One of his hobbies is assembling Gundam model kits \u2014 the last time he counted, he said, he had put together 97 of the Japanese anime robots \u2014 so he completed the clock task in less than half the allotted time. And got the job.<\/p>\n

Now, after working there for a year and a half, Mr. Cain said he got the same feeling of accomplishment from assembling watch components as he did from completing an arm or leg of one of those robots.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty satisfying,\u201d he said during a break on one workday in June. \u201cIt boosts my confidence that there\u2019s stuff for me out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Cain, 21, is the fourth person with autism to work at FTS, according to Kunal Naik, its chief executive, who founded the company in 2018. (The initials stand for Fine Timepiece Solutions.)<\/p>\n

Not every person on the autism spectrum would make a good watch technician, Mr. Naik said. But, \u201cthere\u2019s a sliver that really identifies well with the work we do,\u201d he continued, because they can concentrate on a task for a long period of time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just the focus in the first 10 pieces,\u201d the owner said. \u201cIt\u2019s being able to maintain that kind of a focus when you\u2019re doing No. 400 and No. 401.\u201dAs part of his interview for a job at FTS American Manufacturing in Mesa, Max Cain was asked to take a table clock apart and then put it back together.One of his hobbies is assembling Gundam model kits \u2014 the last time he counted, he said, he had put together 97 of the Japanese anime robots \u2014 so he completed the clock task in less than half the allotted time. And got the job.Now, after working there for a year and a half, Mr. Cain said he got the same feeling of accomplishment from assembling watch components as he did from completing an arm or leg of one of those robots.\u201cIt\u2019s pretty satisfying,\u201d he said during a break on one workday in June. \u201cIt boosts my confidence that there\u2019s stuff for me out there.\u201dMr. Cain, 21, is the fourth person with autism to work at FTS, according to Kunal Naik, its chief executive, who founded the company in 2018. (The initials stand for Fine Timepiece Solutions.)Not every person on the autism spectrum would make a good watch technician, Mr. Naik said. But, \u201cthere\u2019s a sliver that really identifies well with the work we do,\u201d he continued, because they can concentrate on a task for a long period of time.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}