Yeah, I’ve had some so-called “good” full-time jobs, but they always overwhelm me. I find about all I can handle are simple jobs. It sucks. I have a master’s degree that’s going to waste while I work ■■■■ jobs. I normally teach part-time, so that I’m getting some use out of it, but still I have mostly wasted my education because I can’t handle stressful, complicated work.
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That’s awesome you have a master’s degree. What a huge accomplishment.
I’m only two classes away from having mine. Mine is going to be mostly a waste as well. There are no job out there for my master’s. I’m too overqualified. It sucks.
I just feel like my job isn’t prestigious or important to anyone. And people will judge me because I am not in a profession as such and that gets me down. But I don’t feel up to the stress of a proper profession. I work in a bakery.
You do what you have to do, don’t worry about what others think. I have a master’s in biology, and I have had to swallow my pride to work in gas stations and such. Hell, I just left a job at a foundry for a job at a gas station, neither one is exactly prestigious, but I’m doing what I have to do to survive.
Yeah but people are superficial. They make assumptions about you on the position held. We have all been guilty of that. I have a Masters Degree too in Art History but teaching is stressful for me. And now women are expected to be super strong and independent and financially self sustaining so I’m kind of screwed in this new world. It all gets me down…
I used to work and I liked the boring jobs. I don’t work anymore but I try some work on the Internet sometimes. I got a four year college degree when I was in my thirties, and when I applied for a job at a store the manager said that I shouldn’t put it on the applications because they don’t want someone who has a degree to just walk out on them when they get degree-related jobs. I went to college for something to do. Hourly pay is good enough. I have to defend myself when people ask why I don’t have a good job and the “Oh, you worked so hard on your college degree…” No, I didn’t work hard, it was fun and relatively easy. And I’ve had to defend myself as to why I don’t drink or do drugs or go the movies. Strange how people think that what they want is what everyone wants. But that’s an entirely different thread.
I am now an Avon representative and I love my job. I am having a lot of fun with it. I’ve passed out ten brochures in the last two days. So, I think I am doing pretty good. The goal is to pass out five brochures a day. I’ve already made my first on the job blunder. I passed out the wrong brochures on the first day. Oh well. Could have been worse.
On my second job, which is also not a “job” but a business, I spoke to my mentor and he told me to choose between two to three items that I wanted to sell. I told him I wanted to sell electronic keyboards, or my book that I wrote. My mentor immediately shot down both those ideas. He said that everyone and his mama are selling electronics and there’s too much competition. And as for books, he said books weigh too much and there’s too much competition any more with ebooks. So, now I am down to a list of three things: solid Marian statues, essential oils, or yoga mats. I’m kind of leaning against essential oils because although I love and am fascinated by them, I am also deathly allergic to them. So, essential oils are out. That leaves me solid Marian statues and yoga mats.
My job isn’t an official thing, it’s intermittent work and I get paid below minimum wage because it is set fees (£25 for four hours, £50 for any amount above). I work as a peer tutor on courses with our local recovery college, which is courses to help those with severe mental illness develop skills and knowledge for recovery. I did the main courses myself after my last psychotic break in 2015, and then went on to do the training to become a tutor, I mainly teach mindfulness courses alongside a qualified mindfulness tutor. I am currently helping teach on the courses I did and the emotional demand is hard, I end up with constant anxiety because of giving so much of myself, it drains me, and I don’t really want to do it anymore, but it’s the only money I have coming in and the only local company I have. It gets me out of the house and with people.
I am in my second year of training as an acupuncturist, I’ll be in clinic September with any luck (under supervision) and I am going to specialise in mental health because that is how it helps me best. It is what I want to be, I don’t want a career where I am driven by my definition as a mentally ill individual, I want to help more than by giving my experience.
I also don’t feel supported in my current role, I am expected to get to premises where it is really hard for me to get to because it is nowhere near a public bus route with hour walks on the other end when I have mobility problems. I have just started asking for lifts because they have moved further afield. It’s okay for them because the paid proper employees (on a pay roll rather than zero hours contract) only have to come downstairs from their office.
Also mentally, We have no supervision or check ins on how we are coping With difficult clients or just the strain of it all.
But I know I am helping people, I just wish I could move on already.
I am really unhappy in my job at the moment. I cannot concentrate and I am getting very stressed over things that happen around me. I cannot escape it as it pays well and any other job I get I wouldn’t be able to support myself. I can see that in the near future I will lose my flat and all my savings and end up on benefits. It’s worrying and I am getting into a spin thinking about it. I have just lost all my drive and motivation and I am unable to do my job properly like I used to. I am failing.
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