I know this topics been made before but thought I’d bring it up again
It is tough to find a job that is not overly stressful. I just don’t handle stress very well. I attribute it to the negative symptoms. I know 5 years ago I was not like this. I used to have tons of get up and go. Now Its difficult to wake up.
I have a property maintenance business and it’s tough to keep going cuz it’s always on me to book everything and make it all happen.
I’m thinking in the longterm a more rigid job might be better for me
I wish I could have something where I didn’t have to interact with people. That would take away so much of the stress. But it’s just about impossible to find because I don’t have a higher education, and almost all unskilled work is customer service and retail type stuff.
I worked my a** off seven hours a day + 2 am wood furnace duties five days/nights a week for no pay, just good food, a bed and great company for a year and a half and absolutely loved it. Only place in the world I felt comfortable and happy. I may have been out of my mind, had to be, to put in my all for no pay, was one of the few, one of the few.
Payed work? Never worked out for me. How can that be? Someone who worked blood sweat and tears for the common good of a small community, never had a paid job I didn’t abhor.
There are a lot of benefits for both being the boss… and being the employee…
If your having trouble booking and keeping track of all the stuff… have you though of maybe getting your best worker to take on some of the behind the scenes load?
As you know… I’m a gardener with the city parks dept… not so much rigid as much as routine.
There’s enough routine I can handle the things that might come up. But I have better luck with a physical job. One task at a time… one park at a time… and no work to bring home.
Yes I like data entry, typing and filing
I currently study bookkeeping am quit good at maths
Can’t work for pay as way too much stress
I do two hours two days a week at charity shop
I was stressed in one volunteer reception job so gave it up
I now go exploring towns I take the bus and plan to go on a train journey I try do more fun leisurely things and I can go home when I want
I work as a salesperson for my parent,It’s stressful for me probably because there are expectation but I agree that I have grown and improve working for them
I don’t really work but in the Spring and Summer I volunteer as a weather observer for a rain collecting project (I can’t do it at this apartment because there’s nowhere to set one up and I wouldn’t be too good at it… I still have a rain gauge and a stand at my Mom’s house and when I visit her I update the rainfall amount for the time I’m gone and record in on a website.Their website is a business and they make you pay for the equipment and have you set it up yourself. I don’t have good mechanical skills but after working on it for a half hour I set it up years ago. I am also a SKYWARN Storm Spotter although I don’t take it as seriously as I used to. I would have loved to do it for a living and for pay but the weather observer position required a degree and I was unable to obtain one due to my psychosis. I did get an interview for a position after I flunked school but they were already looking for a student and I didn’t have the knowledge to do it anyway. I also did terribly in the interview because i was fully psychotic at the time and wasn’t able to think about what I was saying. The voices also told me that the view out the window was to the west (our school class visited there years before) and even though I realized it was probably pointing south I still said what the voices said. It was pretty sad.
I’m a special education assistant. I’ve worked with moderate/severe mostly, but this is my third year in mild/moderate and I love my job. I get to focus on the student’s needs which takes me out of myself. The hours are school hours, as well as all the days off that schools get. I get one sick day each month and take them. People are generally understanding in this setting. And I understand my students in a way someone with fewer issues might not. Anyway, it’s low pay, but low stress mostly too.
I work for a small business as an assistant. My job is quite clerical in nature. I think the job demands is manageable. It is easy enough. I have a few small tasks everyday. My supervisor gives me a few tasks to do every morning.
I’m intending to find another half time so that I’m working in the morning as well as the afternoon.
Right now I work as a typist/editor for a writer. Soon I’ll be starting training to become a mental health peer advocate. I think thats a great option for anyone dealing with mental illness who would like to help others going through the same.Before my symptoms got bad I was in school for social work but its been difficult for me to finish up because of social anxiety. Hopefully this training will push me into getting over my fears so I can finish my degree. If theres anyone who lives in the ny area and would like to learn more about becoming a peer advocate I can give u the info. The training is free : )
I could have written some of this… I’m also a storm spotter and was in college to get my meteorology degree, and unfortunately the disease won out and I dropped out of school. I was devastated. Now I’ve been working on letting my passion for storms be my hobby instead of my life goal (for now) and have started a new job working in a mall, so pretty basic stuff. I get to work by myself and only deal with customers, not coworkers, which is a major plus for me. I hope to one day be stable enough to return to school… But if not, I’ll still always have chasing.
I’m the Sales and Marketing Manager of a Retailer/Wholesaler Company owned by my father. In the morning, I drive my 3 kids to school. I’m also an on-call private chef to a few close friends. And at nights when I’m alone, I do some artworks on canvass or on some nice wood until my eyes are ready to close and my hands tire from carving or painting. Recently I fell in love with a paranoid schizophrenic and I’m really confused as to whether I should accept his invitation to marriage considering the load of work and mommy responsibilities. If I would, then I should be his caretaker for as long as we live. I have no complain about that. What actually bothers me more is the fear that I might not be able to handle the anticipated emotional stress his illness would probably bring us and the physical and mental exhaustion my responsibilities would give me. I love him, he is such a sweet guy with a kind-heart. I have been waiting for so long for the one fate has willed for me but if things won’t work out for us, I can’t afford to be emotionally down, depressed and be hurt again. I have kids to raise, so I have to be strong and functional for them. I wanna give it a chance but I am afraid at the same time. I am so confused.
I worked in a kitchen of a BBQ restaurant… It was fun at first but then working on a team got hard because I felt like they started hearing my thoughts … Then I thought the customers could here my thoughts from the kitchen and I would think “I spit in your food” lol. I don’t know why. But it was really embarrassing and awakward. I felt like my boss could hear me and he’d get so mad.
Before I got sick I worked at Walgreens and I absolutely loved it.
Now I’m desperately looking for a job. But I feel like when I go on interviews i act so weird cause I’m thinking they can hear my thoughts
It sucks