What field do you work in? Did you stay in the same type of job as you had before psychosis? Or did your career shift?
Huh. That sounds a lot like working in commercial insurance.
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It happened in all jobs I tried after having sz.
I was a project manager in health care. Which was a pretty bad choice for me anyway, because i sucked at organising, leadership, efficiency, social confidence, etc even before psychosis. But i could compensate a bit while more healthy.
I went on to be a kind of project person in peer support. Which was still a bad choice, for similar reasons + too stressful + too instable (both me and the job).
I have skills too, i really had some talents, but im not sure how to put them to use, because i dont tend to fit in a standard work environment well, for reasons like a complete lack of executive function. 
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I do part time as a waiter. I’m fine, just tired. And sometimes anxious before starting or the hours leading up to starting a shift. But I would say that’s just because of uncertainty - I just get on with it once I’m there.
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When I got diagnosed it was just after I graduated from University. I decided to work for a firm owned by my mothers friend, and a lot of my family worked there. When it got bought by an american company all the people I knew and respected left, and it became untenable to stay
Now I am landscaping. Making good money, being outside and getting some exercise!
Anyone who is going to try and work again must understand that different jobs have different good and bad things. You just need to try a few things and not be afraid of failure as it’s unlikely you’ll find a forever job straight away
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Been working pretty steadily since 1984 albeit mostly part time. I’ve been at my janitor job 6 years now.
I’ve always worked pretty much alone, now with the Covid thing I have whole wings of buildings to work in all by myself. I come in the morning, punch in, and the bos tells me what to do and I go off on my own for most of the day. If I finish an hour before quitting time, he’lll give me some bulls*it, easy job just to kill time until we get off.
Anyways, this job is easy; I’ve had harder ones where I worked my ass off doing manual labor.
6 years is a record for me for staying at a job. I’ve had a couple other jobs for four years, a couple other for three years.
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Been working pretty steadily since 1984 albeit mostly part time. I’ve been at my janitor job 6 years now.
I’ve always worked pretty much alone, now with the Covid thing I have whole wings of buildings to work in all by myself. I come in the morning, punch in, and the bos tells me what to do and I go off on my own for most of the day. If I finish an hour before quitting time, he’lll give me some bulls*it, easy job just to kill time until we get off.
Anyways, this job is easy; I’ve had harder ones where I worked my ass off doing manual labor. 6 years is a record for me for staying at a job.
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I’ve been working on a personal project for the past 3 months, 10 hours a day. I’m hoping that it will turn into a fully fledged business. I’ve been doing it on/off for the past two years, but I recently added coffee to my routine, and it seems the extra stimulus is really helping for me. I’m probably close to psychosis, but I don’t care - I NEED TO WORK.
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I’ve worked 2-3 of the last six years. I plan on holding my next job for 5 years. It will be the longest I’ve ever held a job. I hope it’s not too ambitious of a goal.
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I’m able to do temp work but I hope to move to something more stable
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I’m ok with jobs where there’s not too much interaction and that I have an element of control and freedom in.
Like I’d rather be given a project and told to have general guidelines but freedom to come up with own method/process if needed
Also flexibility and no high pressured deadlines is good
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I’ve been working full-time since the late nineties. Currently a full-time commercial insurance broker. Will celebrate four years at this employer in Jan of 2021.
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I worked about 50 hours a week while unmedicated for 2.5 years… Shiiz was rough. The symptoms, along with lame-ass office politics eventually won out on that one.
Started Abilify and got a part-time job at a yoga studio. The low-key environment along with the meds really helped a ton.
Would still be working at the studio, but COVID hit… So you know how that goes.
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