What do you reply to people who ask why dont you have a job?

[Newlyborn]

I say im on medium disability and tranquilizing heavy meds and they usually get off.

[anon99082702]

You don’t need to explain yourself to those nosy people.

I just say I don’t work anymore because of health issues.

[Newlyborn]

But if they are insistent, like saying everything looks alright with you and you are just lazy?

[anon99082702]

I just don’t say anything.

I just kind of roll my eyes like ‘it’s none of your business.’ And eventually they figure it out.

[anon99082702]

I love how the conversation starter in 1st world countries is always, ‘so what do you do for work?’

And the answer is inevidibly, ‘I don’t work because I’m schizophrenic.’

Again. Just tell them you have health problems.

[Newlyborn]

Is it just i was raised in pro-working family and a lot of distant family members says that i ak couch potato and that i "lay on my mother’s shoulders’ for not working. I am however looking for minimum effort job as i cant work now because i upped my haldol and need at least a year for adjustment

[ThePickinSkunk]

@anon99082702

You don’t need to explain yourself to those nosy people.

I just say I don’t work anymore because of health issues

Same here and my thoughts exactly.

[Ooorgle]

I normally just tell them that I’m taking time off from my porn career, living on my massive trust fund, and I’ve really been just doing drugs and listening to the musical work of Charlie Manson.

Then I’ll speak in tongues as they walk away.

Works like a charm, normally they never talk to me again.

[GoldenRex]

Depends on the person.

If it’s someone I’m going to have to know long term,

I say that I write.

Which I do.

If they dig some more, I give them examples of my old work and say that my current work isn’t published yet.

All true.

But I don’t write everyday, and gods know I don’t make a living with it.

I just let people think what they want.

It’s nobody’s business.

[Wave]

I tell them I’m retired which is partially true.

[Tulane]

I always told people that I was “in-between jobs right now”. If they like to push the envelope, then I’ll say I have a disability and can’t work at the moment.

[Headspark]

I have a job now so I don’t have to deal with the awkwardness of that question anymore.

I use to just tell them I have schizophrenia and am on disability. My attitude was screw it, I don’t care, either they except me for me, and if they don’t I would rather know as soon as possible because I don’t want to waist my time befriending them only to be rejected and ignored months or years down the line if/when they find out.

The majority of people I have told are cool with it, sometimes they have question, but not everyone, I have had some negative experiences.

[Newlyborn]

What were those negative experiences? I really have trouble quitting jobs, as employer usually wants to keep me for doing good job, but i get too exhausted quickly and the rest is torture. I was somehow bail out out of these conversations. My main argument is that I get too drowsy from meds that make me constantly tired and because of haldol caused parkinsons is hard for me to work

[Headspark]

If you are talking about work related, I don’t tell my employer I have schizophrenia.

An example of a negative experience is this, an ex girlfriend called me a couple years ago and wanted to hook up. I had dated her years before my diagnoses. I told her I had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and I never heard from her again.

On the flip side, an old friend messaged me that I haven’t seen in 2 decades, before my diagnoses. I told him I had schizophrenia and he didn’t care, he still asked me if I wanted to hang out and catch up.