Sometimes I think we would all be better of working all at different levels of course. But I think society makes it difficult. Our employer and co-workers won’t accept are flaws and it makes it to hard for us to bare the burden. But it we be better for all of us to do something. Does anyone think that they could not do any type of work if they were welcomed and incouraged. I’m not talking about your dream job just something to help us recover and feel accepted.
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I feel like the structure of a job, where I am selling my time and life for money, working for people who make much more money than me, and always worrying that I’ll mess up and be replaced by someone else… I think that will always be hard to accept or enjoy. I don’t like working. It’s a necessity for me now though. And my job could be a lot worse, don’t get me wrong. Just my opinion.
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It is very hard in the beginning of any kind of job. But routine sharpen your mind and skill at the same time. You reap what you sow.
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Me here!
Society, the way it is now, encourages people to work and I , if I could would try to find the right job for me.
In any case I would probably work as despite me being free I do want to be part of society,
I don’t want to be isolated from society.
If I could I would work 100 percent.
I would be willing to settle even for a job I don’t like too much, to start working immediately.
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I want a job at a pet store some where I can use my knowledge of reptiles and other pets but the closest one is never hiring and the others are in other towns. but sometimes I think any job would be good to have but I know I can never work again due to my brain being destroyed by these nasty disorders and illnesses.
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I’m busy with school because I’m in an accelerated nursing program that is intense. I would like to work at a mental health center to help those with mental illness and gain experience. Someday I’ll be a psych nurse.
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I can work. I have worked post-diagnosis, even two jobs at a time for a while. I went to college and focused exclusively on things that I excel at and can do even while sick for the express purpose of finding a better job than I could not find without that education. Right now, I am just waiting for a relocation because there is nothing in the population 750 township that I live in that I could or would want to do. My hope is to go back to work for the Goodwill part-time as I finish school and then looking for full-time work after I finish this December. Working for the Goodwill has been fulfilling for me - the low income aspect comes in behind the opportunity to help those who are probably more disabled than I - to do their jobs.
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I would love to have a job, but as I wrote in another thread, I don’t have the experience nor the education to get more or less any type of job.
I’ve had small jobs in the past, like working the register at a kiosk, and I loved it. The routine of it all, knowing where I had to be and when, etc, really helped me out.
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Nursing qualifies as a job I could never do. Though, I had a conversation here recently where my anxiety was to blame for this and not my schizophrenia. I can’t not slow down when I know one person is suffering and I can’t prioritize even when I understand that there are ten others on my watch. That one person will get my undivided attention and everyone else will suffer because I am not capable of walking away. I blame the pediatric ward where they left me with the kids with cancer who often laid in beds screaming all by themselves. I figured I wasn’t dying, so I’d visit them but once one had my attention, I stayed until I was dragged out. A lot of children died while I was there (mostly cancer). I figured they all should have had someone, but they didn’t. Being that I was 3-5 years old, it had a lasting affect on me.
Kudos to you for having the kind of strength that can care for people in hard times. I always had hope that I’d end up in a medical profession but my anxiety makes this very unlikely, though I do very well one-on-one when there is ample time.
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I worked as a security guard part time for a year after my diagnosis. I hated it. I just walked around a grocery store and dollar store for 8 hours.
Now I dont work. I wake up and go to the gym, and then volunteer with kids or at a food bank 5 days a week
Im lucky I can afford it though. My province has the highest disability in North America - 1600 a month. If it was any lower Id have to work.
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Maybe you could volunteer at the zoo or animal rescue ,or human society
Yes. Technically my job has been doing research at lab but I don’t get paid for it, I get credit and “experience” because labs are poor.
And now that I will be graduating I want an actual paying job in the interim that will give me some cash.
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my in laws would never allow that, they know I have a bleeding heart and would want to rescue every animal I see if I worked at a shelter. the closest zoos are about an hour away to the east of us and to the south of us. I would love to work with animals but I think I would get too attached to them.
my first and only job was a big name retail store first as a cashier in lawn and garden and then as a third shift stocker in soft lines and then cereal. I loved lawn and garden but hated being a stocker.
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I tried working at Walmart last year but after 3 months was sent to the mental hospital… so I’m worried to try again… but I could definitely use the money…
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they look so awesome, is the top one venting or yawning?
He’s yawning 151515