What is your secret to keeping a job for a long time? Do you have a big left toe? Just kidding lol. Seriously though how do you keep a job.
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He iz high functional…
Thanks far_cryO, but I want him to explain how
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what did mayweather used to chant on 24/7 something like “hard work! dedication!”
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How are you doing far_cryO?
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I just ate indian masala chips… i am lying on the bed now…everything seems impossible to me… i am lil too scared cuz i went out to socialize . .
I knew now i am super low functioning… i can do nothing…life is just a waste …i cant tolarate this anymore…
What are u upto jake … Do u see any hope …???
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I’m just sitting in bed also. You said life is just a waste and do you see any hope. I can answer those questions but it is against the rules to this forum.
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U can pm me… 1515515
I guess nick is asleep.
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Paging @77nick77 …!!!
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I got back to work in 1983. My secret for the following 30 years was that I always figured if I was teachable and healthy then I could work.
There are three other reasons I have been able to stay employed:
Lots of luck
Lots of help
and, lots of hard work.
I used to like doing hard, physical work when I was younger. I would enthusiastically dig the straightest ditch I could, or I would unload the refrigerators and washers and dryers off of the truck as fast as I could, or move heavy furniture. I enjoyed it. And if I did it faster and better than my co-workers and they didn’t like it, I didn’t care. That’s their problem, not mine.
I can also say that my late father only had a high school diploma but he was a hard worker and very intelligent and he worked as a surveyor for many years until he retired.
Surveying takes a lot of smarts. To be one, you need to know a lot of math and he taught himself trigonometry on the job. His job involved working on huge freeways, measuring and figuring out angles. If he made a mistake it could cost his employers thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Anyways, he always taught us kids to work hard and he was good example.
But I always looked and acted fairly normally and that always helped me in staying employed. I got along with co-workers but I did have to take crap sometimes even though now at my job I am wont to return some of that crap back. I used to be stronger which helped me in many jobs. My track record at jobs varies. Some jobs I was one of the best workers at others I was one of the worst. I’ve had about 25-30 different jobs over the course of the last 35 years. I’ve been fired from more than a dozen of them… I don’t care. I lose one job, than I go right back out and get another job.
I dunno, maybe I’m just too ignorant and unaware to realize that I should not have been able to work this long with schizophrenia. Denial is my friend, if I faced reality than I would never get out of bed every morning. I just apply for jobs and I don’t worry about schizophrenia, I’m too busy doing good in the interview, getting hired, and then unloading trucks or patrolling parks in the company pick-up truck as a park ranger or stocking shelves. I don’t know what my co-workers think of me, I just punch the clock in the morning and do what they tell me. Some jobs I didn’t talk to anybody but hey, I wasn’t hired to talk, I was hired to get the job done, as quickly and as best as I can.
I like working and when I go to work my intent is to do the best job possible. One “secret” is my attitude. My dad taught me that, too. He told me 80% of working is attitude. When I’m at work I am going to do what they tell me without complaining. I won’t give co-workers a hard time. When asked to do something I cheerfully do it. When I work on crews or in groups I try to get along and lend a helping hand to someone else if needed. I don’t try to get out of doing tasks. If they tell me to do some job I don’t like, I don’t get mad or depressed, I just do it like everything else they ask me to do. This what has worked for me the past 35 years so I must be doing something right.
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Thank you for answering. Working has been a blessing to you. Good job, keep it up!
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