What jobs do you all have?

It can be, but I generally actually genuinely like it! I've been doing it on and off since I was 17, and I'm 25 now so...that tells you something.

If you love Best Buy you should try to get a job there! It's honestly the best retail company I've worked for (and I've worked for about half a dozen)! Not only do I feel they care about their employees, they pay extremely well for retail (min. wage is $9 and I get $11.50/hr) and they recognize and reward good work.

I'm a part time college student and work at an amusement park as a ride operator from april through october. I used to be a lift attendant at a ski area (part time), but burned that bridge during a manic episode. I find it's too stressful to do full time school or juggle part time school AND part time work. I'm okay with working full time/seasonal jobs in the summer though.

gina... it's nuts but it's my favorite time of year as odd as that sounds.

I'm a quality auditor for a very big company and I also took on a voluntary position in my department. I'm always stressed but I need the money, which is very good money. I'm not in my field yet. I just don't know if I can handle that kind of stress yet.

I'm a professor at a research university, meaning I teach but also mentor PhD students and write grant proposals. Find pretty much all of it stressful, and my regular week is between 60-80 hours a week, but it's pretty "flexible" w/r/t my mood. If I am hypo+, I will work over 80hrs/week, if I am in a black depression, I work more like ~40. I find dealing with students one of the most challenging - I have a number of female students who cry in front of me regularly. One time I was a bit off and seeing one of my students cry actually made me cry. These days, I keep more distance. Other than that, colleagues are also difficult. I like the part of my job that involves working on my own .

Interested to hear about the person who has been a high school teacher for 30 years. you don't find students stressful? (I'll write a separate reply I guess).

Not odd at all. I can imagine some type of controlled chaos where it keeps you really busy, but in a good way.

Was in Marketing for 20 years, then had my own Ad agency for 2 years, then we moved for my husband's job. I haven't worked in three years. Was just diagnosed BP this part June after a bad manic episode. Thinking about going back to school and changing careers. Looking at becoming a Paralegal working with public defenders. I'll be honest, I'm scared of the stress and not being stable on meds yet. My husband is mixed on me doing it.

Vice President of Operations and Compliance for a Credit Union. The hypomania helped my drive. It is hard to manage stress but I have a lot of resources.

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been thinking about this a lot lately. about to finish my phd (fingers crossed!) it's taken me a really long time and been unbelievably stressful/awful - the process made me realize I could never handle being a professor afterwards (not that this was my goal in the first place, but it is the road one usually takes post-graduation). I really like being able to work from home / on my own time, so freelancing stuff is great. I do video editing here and there and plan to get more into coding and programming once I'm done with school. hopefully I can make enough $ doing that to support my writing/performance work (the REAL work!)

I'm a housewife, thank God, I'd be fired all the time!!

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I'm a cardiologists assistant. I applied to be a medical assistant at the clinic but after he interviewed me, he hired me to be his "walker". I tend to his needs. Get his coffee ect. Go to see every patient with him. Cary around paperwork that needs to be done for procedures I book ect. It's not easy and it's long hours. And like most doctors, he's a giant, needy baby. I've cried on the job. One time when we had to tell a patient they had cancer. That part of the job is hard. The upside is I've learned a lot and met a lot of great patients. The downside is the caddy *****es that also work there. I never get breaks so lack of eating lunch has caused me to lose weight and my blood pressure has gone up from stress. I wouldn't recommend this job for anyone with BP!!

Trileptal 600mg BID
Buspar 45mg
Seroquel 150-300mg for sleep
Ativan 1mg PRN
Vyvanse 70mg
Risperdal 4-6mg PRN

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I'm a special Ed high school teacher. I work with emotionally disturbed students. My students are the ones that get kicked out of other behavioral schools for fighting or attacking staff. I love my students but it's very stressful. I haven't made it through a whole year without a hospitalization or at least a break from work. I do want to be a special Ed teacher but I'd like to work with students who are less intense. Im thinking of taking a teacher's aide position instead. That was the he best job I ever had. It just didn't pay enough unfortunately.

I work in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities. I've worked at four different agencies doing this since college and I live where I am now. Very stressful some days/weeks....and I work long hours (including spending two nights on the job site) but I honestly enjoy it.

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I work as an x-ray technologist for a radiology practice. I only work 4 days per week and no weekends, which is perfect for me. I'm not too fond of my coworkers, but I love the hours so I put up with it. I could work more hours probably if I wanted to and the money would help, but my husband and I agree that I do better when I'm only working 32 hours. I have a low tolerance for stress.

Wow, you guys.

Well, 39 jobs. 37 years. Chronically underemployed. Smart and hard working, but could never get it together -- or keep it together -- enough to manage anything like a profession. (I didn't know I had BP the vast majority of this time, btw.)

Currently picture framer, mostly very repetative commercial work. No phone talking, no customer interaction. Very few co-workers (that I have absolutely nothing in common with). I rarely talk (and even if I do, I never look up). I have my own work space and work mostly independently. Occasional deadline stress, but it's about efficiency and moving faster, as opposed to having to think. I get flustered if there are too many different things coming at me, or if I can't work batches in grouped steps (I don't know how to describe this, but basically it's about minimizing the number of tools needed at any given time -- to avoid "where-the-hell-did-that-go?!" every 5 seconds.

These are good things, and still I had to go down to half time. And still it can really get to me and flip me out. There's no way I could do other jobs I've had in the past anymore (not just mentally, but physically.)

Finances are a nightmare. It's a damned if I do, damned if I don't situation workwise.

I'm a part-time bounty hunter. I do really well when I'm hypomanic. The rest of the time, I'm not very good at it. But the pay is good, the hours are flexible, and I get to travel a little bit from time to time. I went to Las Vegas last week, for example, and had time to play a little black jack on the side.

I'm a manager at a medical practice. It can be very stressful at times. I have some flexibility with my schedule though, and that is what saves my sanity lol. I may get an opportunity to change my role within the practice maybe next year, which would take away many of the stressful parts of my job. That would be fantastic.

I currently go to school full time studying marketing and fashion merchandising.

I work full time for target as well. I just got a promotion as a visual merchandise associate so more fun.

It's a lot and I have no clue how info it but work helps school and school helps work and at the end of the day they all help my home life I guess.

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