Now I don’t have a Butt…literally…Hi Dr Zen Here, with or with out schizophrenia I have keep working on something. I am a active schizophrenia person. I have had hard jobs because of it, the well paid jobs and layback jobs, take some thing I an’t got. the well to stay short of time.
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How do you manage to hold a job. Are there no stress and anxiety issues… How do you manage?
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I’d like to know too! Every time I try to work my thought disorder gets in the way.
@EDM_Stan @PlateOfBiscuits
I’d like to chime in if I may… finding a suitable job with sz is like a lab. you try different ones, fail at times, sometimes miserably, but you move on to the next. I’ve had 25 plus jobs in about six different fields. I landed in sales and marketing. I can do something repetitively for hours at a time so I found a job doing volume sales. basically, I learned a pitch and I repeat it maybe 50 times any given night. I get maybe 15 sales a shift (30% success rate).
I suggest you brainstorm your strengths and weaknesses. if you can choose a job that utilizes what you’re good at, you just might find a career path. I’ve blogged about it:
https://eugenecyu.wixsite.com/mysite/single-post/2017/12/04/Suitable-Jobs-for-the-MI-Community
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I am in sales to, it can be a rewarding job but also a pain in the ass
I personally believe hard work is a virtue and ultimately somehow or another you will get your reward for it.
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I get too many symptoms when I try to work. It feels like everything is staged and not real. Then I get ideas of regency and think I’m the patient not the caregiver. The rest of my symptoms scare me and riddle me with paranoia. I feel so alone on ssdi not working. I miss work but I just can’t function. I couldn’t even pass out water at a retirement home without getting delusions and hallucinating. I had to go to the psych ward. That’s when I knew I wasn’t cut out for work. I mean passing out water; that’s easy work.
We’re all in different situations regarding our physical and mental abilities. If you are willing, but not sure you are able, take steps toward the goal of employment or volunteer work. It can be very rewarding. Not just financially, it also helps with ones sense of self-worth.
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@gene May I ask what field you work in and exactly what it is that you sell? I would someday, if I have to, like to go into sales as well.
My doctor says she can see me stocking shelves 15 hours a week. I have never worked. I am stable on zyprexa, lamictal and lexapro. All my disability money down the drain. I did go through Voc rehab in 2004. It didn’t go very well. She said that was 14 years ago. She did say I would not lose disability. A lot of people on disability work 15 hours week and keep disability.
Hi @SkinnyMe
I work in the newspaper biz. I go to sport venues (Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, etc) and promote the local newspaper. It’s fairly easy and a great work environment. Plus it pays pretty good. Weren’t you gonna do something in sales? I remember a post from you saying that you would.
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Yes. When I was living in a senior retirement community, I got into the Avon business and I was selling Avon for awhile in the senior community where I lived. Then, it all had to end because the administration of the facility told me I couldn’t go door to door soliciting there anymore. So, it was nice while it lasted anyway.
I no longer live at that senior community. I live in a regular apartment complex now among all age groups. I’m not sure what their solicitation policies are here. But, I wouldn’t be able to sell here anyway because of the security codes to all the buildings. (I have no access to them).
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