Do u have a job

Hello! Do you attend a college? If you are, there might be opportunities for students in the same post-secondary institution. If there is a centre for students with disabilities, they could help you out, too.

Otherwise, if you graduated from college, there is something (well, for some universities) to give opportunities for graduates, or ‘alumni’. There might be some opportunities available for alumni as well.

I am thinking of you, and if you need someone to talk to, please feel free to message me! <3

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At the moment I help my grandmother, in the future I’ll try to be either a baker or a janitor/unarmed security…

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I am helping my father with fishing. He is a fisherman.

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My main task right now is keeping my parents’ house clean as I still live with them and have no way of paying rent atm. I’ve worked as a call center rep and a cashier before and my therapist thinks I’m ready to return to high stress work but idk. I don’t mind dealing with people generally but some situations I dealt with at my jobs really got to me. We’ll see, I guess.

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I’ve done that call center rep stuff too. Some people were just plain mean even after they got everything they wanted. I worked for a cellphone company and nothing pleased me more than to shut down their cell for breaking payment arrangements especially if they were total jerks. One minute late…oh well. Not a job I could do again. :slight_smile:

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Lol!! Yeah it’s rough work. I don’t know where some people got the idea that hatefulness will lead to them getting their way. I was more than happy to pass on such customers to the supervisor line. :smile:

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@antidepressant044 lol I totally already like you. You know what I’m talking about. Thank you. You just made my day. :slight_smile:

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Ditto! Have a great one, new friend!

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First, there are stages in my illness when I thought I wanted a job (and couldn’t find one) when I was actually still quite stressed-out and not at all socially fit. Then when I was almost ready, I landed a job, somehow, perhaps by fate. I have been there 13 years now. I do mostly data entry and on the side a small amount of very simple customer service. It is a little bit anxiety producing. That’s me.

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I keep hearing data entry. Don’t you have to type 60 words per minute. I can do 35wpm and be accurate. I can do a little 10 key by touch. I am not fast enough on that either. I have heard some can type 100wpm. I don’t get how anyone can type that fast. Maybe temp agencies have jobs where you don’t have to type as fast.

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I held down a job during my more well periods and while I was becoming increasingly psychotic over the last year and a half (beyond the delusions that I could handle), but right now, I am not working so I can focus on recovering and lowering my stress levels in hopes that it will lessen my symptoms while I also figure out medication.

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I have a part time job right now. Looking for full time work. But if I don’t find anything it’s okay

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I find work a great distraction from my problems. I work 4 days a week and to be honest the hardest are the 3 days I have nothing to do.

It’s worth a try. It gives you things to do during the day.

I won’t lie it’s very stressful at times and I have been hospitalised a few times because of it. But I need to work now I have made that choice since diagnosis as now I live independently and I need the money.

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Now in my second year as an insurance broker. I still have short-term memory issues so I really take advantage of the activity tracker built into our work software and I’m getting pretty good at optimizing it. I was the “King of Sticky Notes” when I first started. I work with about 12 other people, which I find challenging, and I’m on the phone a LOT. I hate being on the phone. It’s a living.

I had been driving a bulk-fuel delivery truck before that – and loving it – but my heart problem got a bit worse and that was the end of that.

Previous jobs since being DXed:

  • I.T. specialist (email, routers, firewalls, groupware)
  • I.T. trainer
  • Technical author
  • PC repair shop owner
  • School bus driver (still am a spare driver - doctor signed off on my medical for this)
  • Line cook (for a bit when cash was short as I have back injury that makes this painful - I got my chef’s ticked prior to being DXed).

I’m kind of in my own class of being high-functioning, so not sure how realistic this is for others. I have positive/negative symptoms and take meds daily.

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I work as a baker/team member at Tim Hortons up here in Canada but I do planning on going back to college to finish my education. its hard living on miniuium wage everythings so expensive nowadays !

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Working as a cashier. It’s a pretty chill job but I work overnights - 6.5 hours a day 7 days a week.

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Volunteer work for me

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Cant work guys…!!! Cruel negative and cognitive symptoms… Holy cow …!!

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I studied Or volunteers or worked on and off for A lot of my life other times I just exercised quite a bit Anything more Than about 10 hours a week I would have breakdowns after only a year. Or sometimes after only three months

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I work in an office full-time. Comes with medical, dental, and life insurance benefits. Been working there since October, 2017, so like almost a full 7 months. Nobody knows I am mentally ill. I use a lot of stickies and try to be smiley a lot. :slight_smile:
I do get paranoid a LOT about getting fired. I get paranoid about the intentions of coworkers. I panicked recently, thought I was getting fired, and desperately submitted applications to random places. That was last month and they actually gave me more duties now, so maybe I was wrong. Wage is beneath what I should be making with my education level, but I’ll deal with it for now.

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