What was your first job?

[anon28938347]

My second job was as a switchboard operator at a psychiatric hospital.

I was still in high school and saw the position advertised in my guidance counselor’s office.

I remember having to call codes on the intercom when a patient went AWOL that would broadcast over the entire campus. I’d say something like, “Code Blue to the north parking lot” if that’s the way they were headed.

I also remember when patients were transported by ambulance to the psychiatric hospital they had to check in with me before they were admitted.

It felt like a lot of responsibility for a 16 year old.

[screwercs]

Business admin secretary officially called executive assistant to protect the male ego

[magz]

Internship at a high school, making graphic design and posters, being the light technician in plays for the drama class etc. I got paid only a few hundred bucks a month for that, I enjoyed it.

[Joker]

At 13 I worked at a playground that had lots of rides and bouncy castles etc

It was like a permanent theme park that used to be here with some smaller scale rides

All my wages were spent on drugs

[MIDO]

i have schizophrenia since i was born and my thoughts was i dont need to work after treatment i worked in a a company as an outdoor work and now i have been accepted in a new work as a general accountant but didnt start it yet i am so nervous as its the first time to work as an accountant

[Thelawnman86]

Wendy’s then Krispy Kreme then roses department store. Hated those jobs since then I’ve been self employed

[Tulane]

my first job was at a restaurant called Skyline Chili. I actually enjoyed it, probs cause a lot of my friends/people I knew from high school worked there. Didn’t do a whole lot of actual work, A LOT of messing around lol

[roxanna]

Sonic drive in. 15 yrs old. I miss it. It was one of my favorite jobs looking back on it.

[anon76260202]

My first job was making pizza and doing related stuff. I had no work experience and the owner gave me a chance. It was a franchise. I did other stuff besides making pizza like phone and cashier. It wasn’t enough hours and I was slow. I had trouble finding a job. I guess it was during the great recession. I had a high school diploma, but no one would hire me. I felt low.

I then worked in retail where I made more. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. I quit and then went to community college and became a tutor for ease and money. It was min wage being a tutor. I did well, I guess.

I also assisted my step-father in his small business sometimes. It wasn’t much, but I appreciate him caring about me. He’s an engineer.

I only have 1-3 years of work experience part time. I put all my efforts into getting into a university and transferring. I did well. Lots of awards and stuff. High community college grades.

In hindsight, I was getting my life together and starting. Schizophrenia happened, and I lost all contact with ‘friends’. I lost a lot of mental abilities. I put all my eggs in one basket: my brain. I was doing math and I struggled.

I went to a good school. I was below average in the math department at a top 15-20 school. I did well in business, finance, and electives. I guess I was experiencing cognitive decline. I struggled with life skills like multitasking and losing efficiency.

I feel like a failure. I barely function now. I don’t want to live my diagnosis and live in the past.

I have a lot of visual recall memory loss. I have a lot of false memories, I guess. They are called delusions.

Maybe I should have went to a school closer or stayed an economics major or business major. I don’t regret it because I cannot change the past.

I didn’t have a lot of support from my family and had to take out loans. I was a fish out of water. A round peg in a square hole or w/e.

I feel stupid and an idiot. I feel ashamed.

I’m over school now. It’s the past. I thought I had asperger’s but most doctors say I don’t. I have schizophrenia/sza. I take medication, but it doesn’t return me to baseline or my previous self. I even thought I was treatment resistant before.

I was told I would have got schizophrenia anyways in life even if it wasn’t for me smoking pot. It would have happened anyways…maybe later in life…but it doesn’t matter anymore.

I never graduated. I currently cannot work right now.

I started working at around 18 years old. I stopped working at 20 years old. I dropped out of college at 22 years old.

[sweetpotatocasserole]

My first job was running the ice cream bar and translating the menu in Spanish. I loved making various ice cream treats even though I do not eat it. My favorite was the malted milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes. But it was an oldies diner and I wore a ridiculous uniform with a white ruffle apron. Oh man. Harsh. To this day I can’t get the songs out of my head.

[Dudenotperfect]

Paper delivery boy, macdonalds, school food prep, steakhouse and stuff like that till an apprenticeship! Then 15 years at a consultancy place now trying peer work! Lol

[Green]

I did painting and decorating before schizophrenia.
It was hard waking up at 5am every morning and travelling all the way to London tired and sleepy as hell.

I loved the job but now thinking about it…I don’t know how I had the energy