what do you think…
Mortician or psychic
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I work in a library.
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Warehouse work if you can’t think properly.
Cashier if you have some presence and small talk ability.
If you want to do something high intellect, best choice is remote. Office environment will overstimulate you.
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Any job they are capable of handling. Everyone is different. I’m a nurse and yes it is stressful but I am told I am quite good at it and I enjoy it.
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I quit over 10 jobs, the easiest and the longest I endured was a video games tester. Lasted a month.
The most stressful and least endured was physiotherapist. Lasted 2 days.
@Anna, are you an Rn, an lpn or a cna?
I used to work as a surgical assistant,
Then as a writer,
Now I’m an artists assistant, but that’s been put on hold due to COVID.
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I don’t recommend working for a big, faceless organisation.
My old job was really good to start off with, but then it got sold to a massive American company and everything changed and all my supports left.
If you can use any family or friend connections to get work, I recommend it
I’m an RN 15151515
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As a schizophrenic I have been a Marine (got fired from 3 different jobs before I retired), a career counselor for soldiers, an exercise designer for the Marine Corps as a contractor, an assistant manager at Walmart, an aircraft mechanic, an aviation subject matter expert for the Marine Corps, a field manager for the census bureau and now I am a revenue Officer with the IRS.
I was real sick up until the Assistant Manager of Walmart job. Had to quit or got fired from all before that and including that one. Wish I had been well then.
I am better now and want to own my own business.
I was a pilot before I got sick. Really miss flying.
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That’s awesome that you can handle an RN job! I’m so impressed!
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I did a lot of physical work, but not too physical. Unloading trucks was taxing but I’ve also worked in warehouses and stocking shelves. I’ve been a janitor for the past 7 years.
I was a park ranger, some of the tasks were tough. Once I had to take a gasoline powered weed eater and cut down weeds on both sides of a 150 foot long fence. It took me awhile but I was rather proud of the result. Another task was planting grass seed which involved perching on the tailgate of a pick-up truck as it drove 5 miles an hour back and forth over a big expanse of dirt fields and using a broadcast planter to distribute the seed. It sounds simple but when I was doing it I was actually doing about 5 things at once while making sure I didn’t fall off on my face. And this park was huge and we were planting over huge areas and we had to go up and down, planting one row at a time and we could only do an area as wide as the pick-up truck at a time. That was a two week job, it was tough.
But anyways, I worked in a couple restaurants, not too tough.
Some of these jobs didn’t pay well, but I always say about my jobs: They put food on my table, gas in my car and kept me in nice clothes.
With the money I made at these jobs, i could afford to go to the occasional concert or play or comedy club. I amassed quite a few CD’s DVD’s and video tapes though years later I sold them all. I bought luxuries when I wanted to. I could go out to eat.
My dad taught me the value of hard work, he had a family to feed and clothe and keep a roof over are head and he was a smart guy but sometimes he had to just take and decent job he could find so he worked for years on the California freeways, cleaning, planting, weeding, pruning, picking up trash etc. Then he got hired on as a surveyor and got his own crew and did that that for about 14 years until he retired.
So I am happy I can do any job. I’m not snobbish or picky when it comes to work.
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I think working in a Library. Maybe working in a mental health clinic.
I’m in the shipping field.
I think mail sortation would dovetail nicely for a person with schizophrenia. It’s creating order out of disorder, and you don’t deal with the public.
It’s filled the bill for me. Lots of companies have mailrooms. Send out those applications!
Working in a book shop was really good post diagnosis. I knew the product and did well in it.
Warehousing was always good. Simple, repetitive tasks that involved some heavy lifting but easy on the mind. I don’t mind hard, physical work so that was really up my alley…
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I work as a sports operator part time. I analyze and track sports movement during competition. It’s relatively easy and interesting.
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I am a translator. My job isn’t exactly stressful- it’s rather boring and mundane, because it’s repetitive. Translation and editing work tend to be very repetitive- you are editing the same topic over and over again until it seems readable.
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How many languages can you speak? I can speak in Chinese and English.
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