I can’t, but plan to in the future.
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Same here. I can’t now, but in the future I want to find a job that I like, and that I won’t have serious problems with boss, clients, or co-workers, because that will make me relapse. Also, big pressure can make us relapse, so, we must think too much for choosing the right job.
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I used to work for 26 years until I got too ill and couldn’t cope anymore. I’d love to work again but at the moment I’m still suffering too much from negative symptoms.
I can , but I’m very limited in what jobs I can do. Something completely new and different that I don’t have any associated memories of might send my stress levels too high. I don’t know if I can work full time anymore. I work in the same business that I was in years before my first symptoms, I find that that is beneficial.
I have in the past, but I don’t think I can now. It’s been hard for me to accept that, but I seriously cannot handle stress and every job no matter what it is has stress. Stress is a huge trigger for my symptoms to start acting up on me. My last job I stepped away from because I could no longer focus while I did my work, and while it wasn’t like working on a straight line work the mail department gave us the mail to enter into the system, our work went to another department, which went to another department. And if I wasn’t focusing and typing up too many errors eventually they would have caught up to me and I would have lost the job. Rather than get fired I stepped down so I could focus on my health.
I haven’t worked since January 3, 2013. I couldn’t take it anymore, the voices were screaming at me, the hallucinations were interfering with my driving I was making a lot of mistakes at work, wasn’t eating. Little better now, still having hallucinations and voices just not as violent as before. I don’t think I can go back. I don’t remember how to do much anymore, if it wasn’t for auto correct you wouldn’t be able to read this!
I got diagnosed in 1980 when I was 19. I’ve worked pretty steadily albeit mostly part-time since 1983. I actually started working when I was 17 in my prodamal phase and worked until I got diagnosed.
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Is it possible… Yes. Would it be tolerable? No. Not at all. Being forced to be around people is just some hellish ■■■■. I’m constantly comparing myself to them, wondering where I’d be without the illness. That’s not even counting the barrage of symptoms and the “mind reading” thing that’s going on.
At this point it likes “this is what they’ll say now” and then they say it.
Gotta get to the point where I’m not analyzing scenarios like that.
Gotta be confident on all levels.
It’s a ridiculous challenge.
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My biggest challenges are back stabbing co workers and supervisors that play games on me, and also long hours on one shift, and I absolutely can’t do sit down jobs for very long. Lately I’m doing temp jobs, and it’s going ok. I feel like I’ve really done every job on the planet over these 45 years of life.
yes…and do
take care 
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If I didn’t work, I would go crazy.
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Yes, my whole professional career has been since I became ill. Took a few weeks off for a hospitalization and several months of sabbatical to finish my degree. I worked food service and temp jobs in my prodrome.
It was tough to manage at times, but I found it therapeutic. A big factor in me deciding to go on medication was I thought I’d unemployable if I didn’t. I’m very lucky that I had some flexible employers and was able to manage to keep with it.
I can’t work but the SSI disability says I can
I think the last time I held down a job was back in 2000. I did volunteer work from 2013-2014 at a non-profit that helped low-income get their dog and cats spayed and neutered. I worked there two days a week until I moved. They appreciated me and they helped. I was in a psycho-social rehab program for several years and I plan to return to in my new hometown when the funds become available with the new fiscal year in June/July of 2015. Working in a job aggravates my symptoms so much that I do not believe I will ever be able to work again. I really do not want to live through that “living hell” again. It is definitely adverse to my health and recovery. I live on Social Security Disability and have since 2003. There is only one other thing that has caused me this much “hell” Although, I have lived through other horrible things that cause me great distress and pain.
I’m a full time student if that counts
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I do work… I need my job. It helps me cope.
I can pay rent and not be homeless… I never want to be homeless again.
I’m also going to school so I can go sideways on the ladder. (I want to jump to a different section of the job… not necessarily become the boss of this one)
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I think so as long as it’s something I enjoy and isn’t very stressful/fast paced and I don’t start getting too paranoid (which limits my interaction with others).
There are no jobs. Google technological unemployment
I’m glad that someone (you) likes to have a job so much, because I don’t and that gives me another perspective. 
I have also heard other people saying that, I would say, it depends on the kind of job someone has…
There is a saying, Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow.
I also followed God’s plan for my life. It nearly killed me it was so hard to graduate. But something kelp telling me, " your life is destined to be kind". At the time I was suffering and I said. What?!?
But it kept me going and it eventually came true.
So I learned to never give up and settle for what others say I can do.
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