Where would you be if you were not affected by MI ? In Hospitality; A Security Guard; A Tradesperson; A Technician; A Nurse, Teacher or Cop; A Lawyer or Doctor etc.
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I’m not sure. I would have finished college for sure.
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I would be a nuclear engineer… Went to school and everything for it… Just got really depressed so went home than started having symptoms… After awhile tried for accounting but wasnt able to finish that either…
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I wanted to be a pilot
still do
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I was a pilot. If you are schizophrenic it’s a useless dream. I talked to the FAA about it and they said I would have to come off of all the medication and have the diagnosis refuted to get a chance at getting a medical again. Surprisingly to me there are some in this site that believe they are schizophrenic and don’t take medication. I don’t see how that’s possible.
I am not that lucky.
But you can fly as a sport pilot with just a drivers license but I don’t really like sport planes. I prefer heavy helicopters and jets.
Good luck.
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Lucky you! I know. for me it’s a useless but lovely dream.
I know i wont be able to do it as a profession,
but hopefully one day, somehow
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I would be where I am, just would be in better financial shape
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Take a sport pilot lesson and see if you like it. I have taken one up three times. It could be a therapeutic hobby. I was considering buying a sport plane because it is hard to find one to rent but it’s a fairly new category so most of them are pretty expensive
A nice one would be anywhere from 60 to 120 thousand US dollars but you can find a decent one for about 30k.
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I’d love to be a pdoc or a translator 
Or both? 
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Too hard to tell as schizophrenia has always been with me in some form and it influenced my life.
I guess I would have had a career and more normal relationships with people. A career would have been nice!
Well, growing up I was pretty smart and I liked working outdoors at physical jobs. I probably would have been a plumber.
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I would be getting ready to retire as an R.N. in a few years right now. I would probably have worked my way up into management by now. I know I thought about it as a young woman.
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I was a lab scientist, should have gotten a PhD and run the department.
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Before i got struck down with MI i was training to be a computer engineer at the council at 19. I would have been quite a highly paid civil servant by now with a decent pension by now at 43. Thats before Schizophrenia and Alcohol fcked me.
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That is hard to say. I think I would be some kind of wildlife ecologist, or maybe a professor of biology.
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Philosopher, economist and political theorist.
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id be a security guard
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I’m not sure because I got hit by illness so young before I developed any goals. I was interested in sports. I wanted to be a statistician working for ESPN actually. After I gave up on my MLB baseball player dreams.
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A research scientist. 151515
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An entrepreneur / educational game designer.
If I had developed and overcome SZ early enough, I’d become a psychiatrist.
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