Those of you who work - what is your job?

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I suppose I'm looking for some inspiration.

In what is a familiar story for many, I am completely burnt out from my work, struggling to cope in an office environment and really just feeling at a loss of what to do. 

A bit of background on me for anyone interested - I'm fairly intelligent and well educated (BSc Psychology and Criminology, MA Sociology - graduated 2018) but I have never been able to transfer this over to the workplace, I have ended up off sick with stress/anxiety/overwhelm in every job I've had and the longest I have lasted in any job is my current three years.

My jobs have included - 

Food service

Retail

Care (elderly, dementia, mental health)

Call Centre

Medical reception/admin/secretarial (current job)

I have worked all hours from 12 hour days, 12 hour mights, 9-5, full time, part time, zero hour contract. I always end up burnt out. 

Ultimately, I have to work and ideally full time. Office work is a struggle because there's people there, constantly with their smells and their noises and their conversation. 

As much as I loved elderly care, I think my sense of justice made it too difficult to overlook the poor management that understaff care homes in order to make as much money as possible. 

I just don't know what to do, I don't need to find a dream job, I just need something I can do and go home and not feel like all my energy has been drained. 

Any ideas, comments, suggestions, all are appreciated.

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  • Probably not much help but before I got ill with CFS/ME and had to retire due to ill health, I worked for many years as an Embedded software Engineer (usually requires an Electronics Degree) - it suited me as I would get a project to work on and be left to get on with it until I'd finished it (usually weeks or occasionally months of work), then be given another project.

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  • Probably not much help but before I got ill with CFS/ME and had to retire due to ill health, I worked for many years as an Embedded software Engineer (usually requires an Electronics Degree) - it suited me as I would get a project to work on and be left to get on with it until I'd finished it (usually weeks or occasionally months of work), then be given another project.

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