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Old Oct 24, 2015, 08:58 PM
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I was an occupational therapist. If I had known I was bipolar and what OT would be like with that condition I would probably have chosen something different. I LOVED what I did but there is a shortage of therapists so I was always working very long hours, responsible for assistants who weren't always very ethical but kept their jobs because there weren't replacements easily available (further stressing me out and then because I don't have the best social skills I had a ton of trouble dealing with them when I knew they were doing things they shouldn't and not listening to me (their supervisor and legally responsible for their work). I did find a niche that worked better for me the last few years but then the last year I worked a new Medicare law made my job about 3 times more difficult and that niche wouldn't have lasted forever even if I hadn't gotten too sick to work.

I don't know what else I would have done. I only considered a few other careers ever and OT was such a good fit for me in many ways. But it was so wrong in many other ways.

There are free online sites that you can use to take career aptitude tests. I haven't used them but my therapist told me they exist.
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