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View Poll Results: Do you have a job?
Yes - Full time 6 23.08%
Yes - Full time
6 23.08%
Yes - Part time 4 15.38%
Yes - Part time
4 15.38%
No - But I'm trying to find one 3 11.54%
No - But I'm trying to find one
3 11.54%
No 13 50.00%
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:01 AM
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Do you have a job? I don't have a job and I'm not sure if I can manage a job since I find even very simple chores challenging. but I'm going to try.

If you want to specify or say why you have / don't have a job or how you manage in your job, please comment.

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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:06 AM
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I don't have a job. I haven't worked in over a year unfortunately. It makes me feel like a waste of a person
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:08 AM
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I don't have a job. I haven't worked in over a year unfortunately. It makes me feel like a waste of a person
You're not a waste of a person. You're a part of this universe and you have as much of a right to be here as everyone else.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:09 AM
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I have a job but I had it long before getting sick and I finished all my school etc before getting sick so its inertia. Also I am currently either in remission or miraculously cured so that's obviously easier---I was only really majorly symptomatic for like a month and a half and not working for like 2 weeks when treatment was being initiated.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:17 AM
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i have a part time job as a cashier at a grocery store. i wanted the job to make money (obv) and to get out of my apartment and feel productive. i am on SSDi but it doesn't affect that because i don't get paid enough or work that many hours for them to take my disability away. my job is stressful and boring but i see it as a necessity for my well being.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:29 AM
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I have two part time jobs that equal the amount of hours to a full time job. I'm a hospice certified nurse assistant and I'm a laboratory assistant. The hospice cna job is very stressful because it requires a lot of socializing so I'm trying my best to find a second lab job. I have autism so socializing is hard for me, but in labs there isn't a large need for socializing so it works out well for me. My lab job is super easy and I love it, I collect specimens (like urine) and I ship them out.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 10:29 AM
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You're not a waste of a person. You're a part of this universe and you have as much of a right to be here as everyone else.

Thanks axiom. I've worked from quite young but since all this began I haven't managed to keep down a job for much over 6 months. I'm hoping to go to uni this year though so that's something.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 11:34 AM
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I lost my job in April. Currently collecting unemployment and trying to figure out what my next gig will be.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 06:17 PM
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No, I can't work because of my illness. It makes me feel useless.
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Old Jun 30, 2014, 06:24 PM
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Not worked since december of 2011. I'm on SSI. Been on SSI since late 2012. Lol being out of work so long does make you feel useless but I try to think of it this way, "If the government didn't think you need the benefits than they wouldn't of approve it." But then there's people who do need assistance and don't get it.
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Old Jul 01, 2014, 09:48 AM
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My boyfriend is currently working full-time in a technical position (network administrator) and is doing well in this position for a couple years. Before that he had similar good jobs but with big gaps of a year or more because they were "contract" positions of maybe only 6 months to a year each.
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Old Jul 02, 2014, 08:27 AM
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I have a part time job as a nanny about 100 dollars a week cash, I volunteer ever weekend for a pet rescue and I foster a kitten. Staying busy helps me feel productive and great about myself. I end up spending more then I make tho. Now I'm about to lose my SSDI do to my 10 year medical review. I'm panicking.

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Old Jul 02, 2014, 08:45 AM
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Does school count?
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Old Jul 02, 2014, 09:28 AM
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Does school count?
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Old Jul 02, 2014, 09:36 AM
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In my opinion, yes.
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Old Jul 02, 2014, 10:09 AM
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I don't really feel qualified to vote but thought I would respond. I'm not working. It'd be pretty tough to even find a job right now, the job market is harsh here and I don't even have my high school diploma. I haven't been able to finish because of the MI, so a job would be pretty impossible for me right now anyways.
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Old Jul 04, 2014, 12:48 AM
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No Job and never had one. Well, back when I first left school I had a couple of short-lived, crap jobs that I hated. Funny thing is, I'm actually quite competent, but no one ever gives me the chance. I was signed on the dole a few years back and I had to keep a record of my job search in order to get benefits. Over the course of a year I applied for over 400 jobs and not a single one wrote me back. Some of those were out of my league, some weren't. Some I put effort into, some I didn't. It really didn't matter. I was working towards a BSc as well back then (what a waste of time and effort).

Anyway, that's when I became disenfranchised from the whole notion of employment and set myself up as an artist, making bits and pieces of money on the side. I've made more money doing that then I have from employment over the entire span of my life.

In the meantime, to avoid boredom and isolationist, I do a lot of volunteer work, working with social enterprise groups, teaching sculpture, a bit of ecological work, helping to set up art exhibits, renovating buildings and stuff like that.

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Old Aug 22, 2014, 11:23 PM
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In the meantime, to avoid boredom and isolationist, I do a lot of volunteer work, working with social enterprise groups, teaching sculpture, a bit of ecological work, helping to set up art exhibits, renovating buildings and stuff like that.

"Today you were born to work for free. That is your privilege!" Incubus - privilege[/QUOTE]

Volunteering Eco work and setting up art exhibits that's work. You have tax deductions for volunteering I bet. Costs that you pay for if you are not reimbursed are tax deductions!

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Old Aug 23, 2014, 01:05 AM
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No, I had my first psychotic episode literally just after I graduated university... I did work for a bit but left whilst I was getting used to being on Olanzapine. Tried to look for another for a bit but then my apathy got very bad & I was sleeping an awful lot.

After my symptoms cleared up, I was taking some time to adjust to normality again & then I quit smoking & starting having anxiety problems... then I started relapsing recently. Sooo... no job. If I can get on some medication that doesn't affect me too much, I might go back to university. Got to have some plan.
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Old Aug 23, 2014, 03:03 AM
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I used to do office administration. Then I had my back injury and surgery. Then about 2 yrs later I went into that psychosis. I haven't worked since then. I hope to eventually go back to work, but right now my ptsd symptoms are bad a lot of the time.
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Old Aug 23, 2014, 03:17 AM
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Do you have a job? I don't have a job and I'm not sure if I can manage a job since I find even very simple chores challenging. but I'm going to try.

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I have it, I work as a computer science consultant, and earn 2x that most people. The real challenge was to start again after my first psychosis, because I take sequel with give my a lot of sleep. But it is thanks that I was in the need to weak up early than now I am used to it. I think continue taking your meds, going to the doctor and follow its indications, and fight to have a normal live it is what give you a happy life. In the meantime I meet my wife which I love and stabilized my life, although we have no children...... even when desire them.
Follow your dream.... maybe for me I had an easy evolution, ...... But the real trick, I think, is to take a routine, even if it is difficult at first, and get used to it.......
Kind regards and luck.....
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Old Aug 23, 2014, 02:30 PM
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I had a job that was perfectly suited to my personality. Which was a God send, I am a very...different person, most jobs are circles and I'm a square peg, if you know what I mean. I had it for six years, good pay, good benefits. It was never lost on me how exceptionally lucky I was to have that job. It was THE perfect job for me. I got to work in solitude, I was not micromanaged. Then the company closed. Got another job, for crap pay, working with people that I found impossible to get along with. The operations manager was insufferable, it was all I could do to not assault him on an almost daily basis. So I left that job after several months. Shortly after I left, an avalanche of external stressors happened pretty rapidly in my little family(wife and I), which sent me into quite a depressive state. It's been 8 months since I left that other job. I went on some promising interviews at first, almost looked like I was going to get the job a couple of times. But they never panned out. I haven't even been trying now for the past three months. I just temporarily gave up. I don't currently have it in me to suit up and pretend like I'm everything that I'm not in an effort to get some lousy, entry-level job. It's all a game, one which I don't currently feel like playing. I'm getting closer to feeling ready to start looking again, though.

Ideally, I'd be self-employed.
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