IS your dream job impossible because you're schizophrenic?

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Schizophrenic astronaut. I start hearing voices in my helmet so i decide to take it off. Great job

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How do you feel today about getting your dream job?

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I actually wish to colonize planet mars by rocketing over self assembling building structuresā€¦it sounds impossible to many people-but imaging if those bricks built themselves huh?

Iā€™ll tell you more about that later!

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Are you thinking of going back??

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i was just thinking about this incidentally,

my dream job would be helping people in some ways, whether on the phone or going out to visit them and talking to them and improving things for them in some way, sounds like a dream but i think my illness really holds me back, i am only able to do 4 hrs a week just now as admin and on the phone but i wish i could do more, i want to be able to do a part time job under 16hrs under permitted work rules.

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Iā€™m most likely starting my studies next fall. Iā€™ve made a lot of progress lately. I am still hopeful. :slight_smile:

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Chef, writer, traveller.

Low end musician.

Iā€™m dying so i donā€™t think itā€™s going to happen.

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My dream job, my drunk dream job, my day dream job, all went bye bye.

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My major in college was a critical major and one year I got an unsolicited email from someone with the dot gov ending to his email. He wanted a resume and offered a bonus if I was hired.

I replied! Even though I have been terrified, I still highly believe in the constitution and i wanted to protect it and do something for my country. He liked my resume but then I asked if there were any health pre-requisites and he said yes, you have to pass a medical and psych eval. I said oh okay, I have a disability. He wanted more information, which disability? he asked.

By that time though, I had a bad feeling that Iā€™d never make it with my sza diagnosis, so I respectfully requested that he disregard my application and never told him what I had. He did so and I never heard from him againā€¦my sad moment.

I really wanted that job. I will never have it, though. I will never get to do something for my country through that channel and it makes me sad.

Then again, at one point, I thought Iā€™d never be able to teach because of my disability, but I got a job out of graduate school as an instructor for adults! A decade ago I was delivering pizzas part time and failing out of community college. So, never say never! Then again, with the first story, yea, Iā€™m going say Iā€™ll never get that job. :frowning:

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I would except that Iā€™ve already gone through dog grooming school and now that we have a kid on the way weā€™ll never be able to afford anything nice ever again :disappointed:

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Not sure I answered this. Yes I do feel what Iā€™d liked to do is a bad idea with my psych history. Think Iā€™d like to be a radio DJ. Locked in a sound proof both for like three hours at a time talking to thin air with my history of isolation and withdrawal is just a bad idea just waiting to happen.

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I was in med school at the time of my first psychotic break. I would say that job is definitely impossible now. Even if there was such a thing as an sza doctor, I could never handle taking around 30 credits/term, of upper-level coursework no less. No way I could handle internship or residency either, working 80+ hrs/week, sometimes 24 hrs at a time. Nope.

I think Iā€™m doing pretty well, though, all things considered, even if I will never have my dream job.

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With schizophrenia, guess Iā€™m just my own curse, being a dreamer and not a doer

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Going to Mars is really cool. The problem is we donā€™t allow for the technology for it to be a round trip. Right now we r barely allowing ourselves to even get there and we still havenā€™t yet. When the Earths in turmoil and not in some ā€œim better then uā€ match. No one cares about space. Its probably cause of Elton John. I blame Elton John lol

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Keep dreaming of colonizing Mars. I am sure that is coming up soon.

 My dream job is being a research scientist and my illness just prevents it from happening.  So I am having to work a fast food job.  Pays the bills.
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I have given up on my dream to don black leather and kick ass on the big screen while having a music career on the side. Instead, I am going to try and get my Associates at Community College and get a decent job where I can live independently.

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Either way you go, youā€™ll do a great job. I have a TON of leather jackets and own a harley sporster. Love the biker life!