@77nick77, I’m so very proud of you that you work.
I’m a mess about accepting money for working. I’ve never been able to figure it out unless it has to do with the time a friend and I played a violin duet for a Lion’s Club meeting. Their leader offered to give us a few dollars for doing it but my Dad refused to let us accept it. It really bothered me. I was about 12 years old.
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I work part time and go to school full time. It’s really f*cking difficult but I try to push myself to do as much as I can while I can. Thats my theory. We’ve all got different abilities and ability levels, it’s about being realistic about what you can do and doing it.
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I cant work, but I do care for my son parttime and do volunteering. For both, the time I spend is adjusted to how bad or how well im doing. In bad times my parents take over the care for my son and I dont volunteer. Lately I have volunteered quite a lot, several days each week, and my son was with me several days a week as well, but it was a bit too much. Now im doing less well, so I do less.
A real job wouldnt work out yet. I havent worked for years, so it would be hard to find one, and also you cant work one month and stay at home the next…
If I work full time I make less than what SSDI pays me after taxes. So I am going to cut my hours down in a couple of months so I can keep my SSDI and make $1000 more dollars a month. I am on my 9 month trial work period.
Is that wrong if I can handle more work? I am just not getting enough sleep. No other complaints on the job.
That is if I don’t get the non paid work experience gig from the Voc Rehab counselor at the VA.
Next year at some point I want to get into this program where they help people with mental health diagnosis get work. It can be just s few hours work at what suits you.
I will try it. I am not looking for a top notch CEO job or anything like what I used to do. In my opinion no matter whether we take out the garbage deliver mail or are a lawyer we are all equal because we all make the world go around and all need one another equally. Can’t function without all individual parts.
I’ll try what I think I’m capable of. I think I might. Because I would love to.
I would suggest you think about earning a good education (if you do not have enough) first and after you are treated and stable. People who work low paying jobs get stuck in a vicous cycle of working, job stress, disinterest, relapse, unemployment new work. It is very difficult to stay in low paying jobs when you have a mental illness even if its treated. They just have too much daily pressure on a person to survive. and relapses weakens you every time it happens. Imagine doing this cycle all your life. How would you think retirement would look?
No, I suggest get educated really well in a field you enjoy then you can make decent money and afford to buy the proper healthcare and necessities you need in life.
Yes you will have to buy alot yourself after you get a higher paying job but its the self worth and satifaction of earning and doing yourself that benefits you best
take care
yea why not so long as youre not overtaxed…atleast part time
I want to work, but my treatment team doesn’t think I can yet. I had to stop volunteering, too. Hopefully soon I will work again. I take care of the kids every day.
I’ve been working for years.
I can only manage volunteer work but I really enjoy volunteer work
Whether I will ever be able to do paid work I don’t know but I hope
Hi @chefshorty.
Typically, we like to leave inactive threads alone and just start a new thread instead. This is different than how some forums are run, but we do it this way because it frequently upsets users to have old topics revived when they are no longer relevant. It can also be frustrating to the person who revived the thread when they don’t get a reply, because the original poster is no longer active or no longer finds the topic relevant. Feel free to start a new thread on this topic.
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