Have you ever quit a job due to incapability?

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Have you ever quit/left a job for your incapability in skills or your mental capacity??

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Yeah. Three years ago I attempted to be an inpatient pharmacy tech at a hospital. I was horrible at it, ended up just walking off the job the one morning. I just couldnā€™t work quickly enough for them.

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Many times. 1515

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I walked away from my career in enterprise I.T. as the stress was getting to my health. Also tried writing a photography book and discovered that my health and publishersā€™ deadlines arenā€™t compatible.

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Not ability but anhedonia. Since psychosis I can work for up to a month but then anhedonia wins and I lose the pleasure to work and quit working.

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I worked at a lot of jobs, physiotherapist, small gym manager, VR video games testing, accounting, selling clothes in a shopping mall, supermarket in groceries and meat sections, credit card calling people to pay their debts, etc

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I got fired because of incapability. Several times.

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Yup. I became unsafe to practice, had to walk away.

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Yes, a few timesšŸ˜”
Mainly because I wasnā€™t really getting along with coworkers and that was too much stress

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well iā€™ve always worked laborous jobs. so now that iā€™ve lost strength i have a tough job with the mentally easy jobs. like last year, i worked 6 hours on a production line and quit, i told the lady i couldnā€™t do it. my back and forearms were aching, and i just quit at break. then i apologized to the lady who hired me, but she said ā€œdont worry about it, the job is not for everybodyā€.

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I just feel like, my language level at my job is very sub par to understand the terms they are using to properly execute tasks accordinglyā€¦ and makes numerous mistakes and am a nuisance and a burden to the team. My past knowledge before psychosis has almost evaporatedā€¦ itā€™s terrible. Itā€™s a technical level, more than confidence level at this point to meā€¦

Never really quit a job like this before, so wanted to share with the forum and see what people experienced.

Thanks for sharing guysā€¦ itā€™s really hard to remember things, but I think Iā€™ll give it another day for I asked to do my shift with out anybody looking over the shoulders and doing tasks myself. If it goes south I will quit.

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To be fair, they didnā€™t tell me being a U.S. Congressman meant I had to write a ton of papers. After two years I just left one day and never went back.

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Iā€™d say of all the jobs Iā€™ve held, there was one. I was a field representative for a beverage company that required travel to all grocery stores in a certain region. I had a tough time getting along/ carrying a business relationship with the store managers. This aspect of the job I was incapable of. I made it through the probation period (3 months) but was let go due to low performance.

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was escorted by van and coworkers to the observation pdoc at the nearest hospital from my job when I was the most illā€¦

before that I walked off my residential designer job when I thought I was rich and didnā€™t need to workā€¦they didnā€™t let me have my job backā€¦until later after I stabilizedā€¦didnā€™t work out ā€¦I had a major panic attack and didnā€™t know what to do for about two years when I was stuck at home and would only leave the house with my momā€¦I finally learned to overcome the fear of panic and now I am panic free but still canā€™t workā€¦canā€™t concentrate anymoreā€¦

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Iā€™ve gotten fired for incapacity several times, one time because I was full of Haldol. I quit a telemarketing job for that reason one time, but that is the only time I have done that.

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I was president of the United States but the politics got to me so I quit

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All the jobs Iā€™ve had so far I had to quit due to mental health reasons. Fingers crossed I have an easier time at my next job.

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Yeah, my last one. It was about 4 years ago and the voices wouldnā€™t stop. They were mean back then, also. I couldnā€™t focus on my duties.

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I quit my office job after being there for 6 years

It was bought by an American company, and all the people who used to support me really well pretty much left.

During that 6 years, I must have had 8 relapses and trips to the hospital.

In the end it wasnā€™t psychosis, but stress and anxiety that meant I could not longer continue.

I could do the job very well, and had even won an industry award, but my mental wellbeing was seriously suffering.

Now I am self-employed, and things are going well at the moment. Fingers crossed it continues

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No. But I turned down a job, because I was panicking about my memory problems and whether I would have a problem.