I had a good job as a software engineering consultant but my illness threw a wrench into my career and I quit my job during a psychosis because I thought God wanted me to quit.
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I worked about 6 years after first having symptoms. I was just working an ordinary job and I used to feel like I was going to collapse because of certain negative things people wanted to indirectly convey to me. Though I did like the job. I gave up, probably too soon, because I couldn’t take it.
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I was just gonna start a job in a big insurance company, I was living in my own flat had a fantastic life then I lost everything
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I was about to join the Navy but I had psychosis right when I was taking the asvab test for the Navy. It was this June that this happened and right now Im holding off on employment in general and I’m just focusing on my hobbies for now.
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Welcome to the forum @Stophypsters! This is a great community!
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Thank you for the welcome!
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I was working for an electrical company and also doing security work. I lost one job directly as a result of psychosis and the other I quit because of psychosis.
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going to school trying to be an investment banker I guess. Make 100k a year. Unfortuantely, grades went down and I didn’t do any internships because of prodromal and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. I felt I was too stupid and not smart because of my grades.
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I thought I wanted to join ROTC or go to OCS too if investment banking failed. I don’t know. It’s all a blur. I think it’s best I didn’t.
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I was in school. I was in the national guard and I played hockey. And I had a boyfriend. I lost all of it
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I was mentally disabled as a child so I felt hopeless as a child and lost all my dreams then.
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I was promoted to a Computer Programmer Trainee by the company I worked for. Self study and night vo-tech school. This was back in the 1980’s. They paid me $13,200 a year, more money than I ever made in my life. ($1,100 a month).
I started in the mail room December 1978 when I was 19, and went to Data Control in the Computer Department.
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listen
i was at college
i was repeating the year i failed at college
i only had 4 materials
first term 3 materials
and second term only 1 material
so i tried to invest my time to something attractive
so i lost all extra weight about 30 kg or even more
all of this while i was on marathon program
it was amazing year after that
i undergo the symptoms 
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That’s amazing dude! That’s good money too. More than I ever made in recent time when I was at my best. Programming is a sweet cool job.
It means you are smart and hard working and have attention to detail as well as a creative mind.
I sort of want to try and go back to school online and do it, but I don’t know.
I got a volunteer job at the library and it was easy and cool ( a few years ago). They said if I would have stuck with it, I could have gotten a real job working in IT. But it never happened. My delusions and paranoia popped up and I feel like I was rail-roaded as they say. I don’t know. But I’m ashamed that happened and never called back or went back in. I assume I’m blacklisted for jobs as they say. It’s fine. I’m okay with it. They never called me back so I wasn’t that important and they were probably pissed off and well aware of the situation…
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I was also interested in a decent paying “computer operator” job too but alas that never happened and it irked me. I was totally blindsided and oblivious. I just wanted a decent, paying job. It turns out that job is a dead-end job and career. I guess everything is being automated and things are getting more technical and advanced.
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I was trying to get in medical school but ended up getting a kinesiology/physiotherapy degree.
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I’m sorry you had problems in employment. My symptoms of SzA didn’t really kick in until I was 30. I was unable to do my job because of religious hallucinations and delusions eventually. I ended up a janitor/stock clerk in my aunt-in-law’s convenience store for 32 hours a week.
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Were you alive in the 1970’s and 80’s.
i was born late 80s and I am currently 31. got sick at 22.
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