I can do alot online… I can do everything online actually. If it’s a commission I can get paid thru PayPal and mail the piece or I’ve made tee-shirts and stuff. But I’ve done alot of portrait commissions in the past that way. And I’ve sold alot of prints online… and I’ve had to take breaks before and I just go back at it when I can…
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I’m gaining the skills to be a freelance web designer. I think others here have had some success with that. I’m actually getting close to moving on from plain vanilla .html to styled .css
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I was at Goodwill for vocational rehab for 4 months in my 20’s. My experiences is, unless you have mild mental health issues they just use you for cheap labor. Sometimes I sorted stuff and sometimes I got heavy goods to a transport truck. They even get angry when you try to use your work rehab period as a job reference. For the last 6-8 weeks I worked full time for about $20/week.
I’m young(turning 22 in two days!) and only been diagnosed as sza for about two years now but I’ve successfully completed dental assisting school. I’m now employed full time by a privet dental practice. I’m even considering going back to school to become a dental hygienist!
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My best job was a park ranger. I got my own truck to patrol around in and a walkie-talkie. It got strenuous every now and then but to be honest, it involved a lot emptying garbage cans and picking up trash which I didn’t expect when I applied.
I didn’t even find the job myself. I was in a day program and one day a counselor showed me an ad she clipped from a newspaper that this company was looking for a park ranger with no experience necessary.
I didn’t think I could do the job but the counselor thought I could do it. So I applied and got hired and ended up staying for almost two years.
Other than that I’ve worked in restaurants, department stores, some miscellaneous jobs.
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I work at Amazon in one of their call centers, they have a program in the USA called reserves where you decide the number of hours you want to work and you do it from the comfort of your home, its great as just a start out if you want to test out what you can cope with. I work fulltime at the call center here in South Africa though, but they reduce my hours shortly after a relapse as they decided to make that accomadation for me. Its a lot of paperwork each time to get it done though.
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Jeez I’m seeing how crappy my area is at employing people with serious mental illness. (Especially by comparison)At first when I actually got through the work rehab program. the first thing the guy said was “You have to look for the jobs yourself.” Like, what do you get paid for?
Eventually they started showing me a job that I’d have to commute for over 90 minutes that I didn’t think I could do.
Totally useless.
But I don’t think the businesses I will be hiring myself out to for web design can easily find out about my dx.
To be clear, my area didn’t even have good enough public transportation for that jobs commute.
I bloody well hope so.
I’ve never done FT whilst on meds yet but I hope to get there one day
I’ve been a farm hand, farm manager, nurse aide, telecaller, sales, UPS specialist, and writer\author. Currently I’m a part time librarian.
I’m a practicing schizophrenic with 40 years of experience. It’s a tough career to break into if you don’t know what you’re doing. It took me four years of an online correspondence course to get my credentials but now that I’m a professional I feel I’m pretty good at it.
I was a mission planner, an executive officer, a career counselor for soldiers, an exercise designer, an assistant manager at Walmart, a college student, an aircraft mechanic, an aviation subject matter expert a field manager for the US Census and now I collect taxes.
So far nothing long term except an associate degree.
Never give up. Keep trying.
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