[BandName]

What do you do for a living?

Do you enjoy it?

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I am disabled and I hated it. Before I was unable to work I was an occupational therapist and I loved that.

[Nevvy]

I'm a student....ish. Switching studies and contemplating just finding -another- alternative.

When it was going okay, I enjoyed it (even though I can't relate to most of the students).

I used to work as an attorney. Now I am looking for a less stressful job as a paralegal. I enjoy thinking hard a lot.

[Moogieotter]

I'm A software implementation consultant. It's complicated, but fun.

[Captinbipolar]

I was a professional chef in fine dining environment in some very high end restaurants. It was to much for me. I lost it there. Went to catering and baking but the stress and the fear of failing caused me to leave there as well. I'm now searching for what else I can do for money as I'm currently unstable so cooking is off the table for now and maybe permanently

[Homeira]

I worked for a long time as an occupational therapist. I have given up that carreer. I have not worked for ca two years now, and gone through a lot of shame and guilt about that. I luckily get by financially, but not being able to work is still hard. But I have come to a desition / acceptance that my health has to come first.

[HALLIEBETH87]

I worked in early head start with toddlers for many years but now I'm on disability

[Hexagram]

I broker my 70-year-old employer's services in an ancient technology passed down to her by her father, who had been trained by the Japanese government. She doesn't speak English and I shield her from the distracting and the mundane by interacting with clients, documenting contracts, managing expectations and liabilities, setting prices, keeping records, arranging shipping, paying bills and maintaining a social media presence so that she can practice her craft interrupted only by golf on military courses and lunch in town with separate cliques of Buddhist priests and Yakuza club owners. My employer will soon retire and food is really expensive out here, so I'll probably end up driving for friggin' Uber.

[Toodles333]

I'm on my 3rd career. Ex Royal Marine. Ex Teacher. Now self employed and hanging in there by my fingertips

I'm a high school teacher just completing my 29th year. I love my profession.

[mom2trips+1]

I was a physician for 19 years but recently took "early retirement" due to disability. I loved my job, but too stressful especially with 4 kids ( which include a set of triplets.)

[UCMATH]

I was finishing an undergrad degree in pure mathematics and planning on going to graduate school to study Topology. I'm out of school right now, but I'm going to transfer back to one of the agricultural and environmental science programs when I return. I'm not capable of thinking at the level of a mathematician anymore; I can't focus long enough, and the insights aren't there anymore. Plus, I want to do something hands-on. My school has the best ag sci program in the world, so I'll be able to get an excellent job once I manage to finish it. It's the program I was in for two years, so I'm just going back to where I started.

[wildflowerchild25]

I am a special Ed teacher. I work with students with behavioral and emotional disorders. Some days I want to slap the **** out of them but overall I really enjoy it. It is very stressful though so I am looking for a job in a regular public school.

[raspberrytorte]

I work at a salad bar in a grocery store. Lol. I like it. It's given me some really toned arms without having to do anything (I have to lift a lot of heavy things on a daily basis).

[Row Jimmy]

When I'm asleep, I play guitar in a band.

When I'm awake, I'm a professional motor-mouth.

[BipolaRNurse]

I used to be a nurse and was in management for quite awhile during my career. I'm disabled now and my only real job is writing, for which I get paid a little every so often. I enjoy that but only because I can make my own hours and rules, and change them anytime I want.

[sevstrub]

I'm a Bookkeeper. Self employed now so I control my hours. Work many on my good days and hardly at all on my bad ones. The older I get the harder it is though to focus.

[raspberrytorte]

I'm a writer too, with a lame day job since I obviously don't make very much with my writing. Have seventy dollars coming my way though. I'm buying myself something nice. lol

[Secretum]

I am currently looking for a job. I would like to find one that would allow me to help other people with mental illness. One job I applied for today would be as a night counselor in a residential treatment facility for women with mental health struggles who have recently been released from prison. That would be great but I am not sure what kind of havoc would be wreaked on my emotional stability from working nights, haha.

I am also looking at jobs in research labs. I worked as a lab assistant for seven months last year, between undergrad and getting my masters.

We'll see what I end up doing. I really wanted to go to med school, but I think that I am not strong enough. I recently finished a masters program in physiology that was designed to prepare people for med school, and I did not do well in it. I don't have my final grades yet, but my GPA first semester was only a 3.27.

I think it would be cool to be a research psychologist.

[enjoyyourlife]

Student and i really struggling with my disorder. Some exam sessions i get the best marks and other ones i don't even understand the questions....

[Northern_Spirit]

Student becoming a Social Service Worker. I love my future career but my disorder has recently gotten in the way of graduating. I find it coincidental that as I learned about disorders and such in class it helped me figure out what was going on with me over the past several years.