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Those of you who work - what is your job?

illustrated.lady

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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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  • I'm a computer games animator. So I've studied movement and expressions for the last 20 years, maybe a reason I've been so good at masking all this time, even from myself. Joy(This is different from feature animation, I do a lot of loops and cycles and movement sets). Though my speciality is creature stuff, as it overlaps my nature interest. I can also cover a tech animator role and I really got into python a few years back. I also work from home so I don't have to deal with other people apart from a few meetings.

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  • I'm a computer games animator. So I've studied movement and expressions for the last 20 years, maybe a reason I've been so good at masking all this time, even from myself. Joy(This is different from feature animation, I do a lot of loops and cycles and movement sets). Though my speciality is creature stuff, as it overlaps my nature interest. I can also cover a tech animator role and I really got into python a few years back. I also work from home so I don't have to deal with other people apart from a few meetings.

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Hi    Study of movement and expressions turned into a career with correlates for masking.  Similar for me.  :-)

    I spent a lot of time exploring human movement (including biomechanics) and interactions from a Western"biopsychosocial" perspective and Taoist philosophy and arts mostly providing insight into postural changes associated with emotional sets.  For me this turned into a career in physiotherapy.   More interaction with people fro me - a mixed blessing...

    Can I ask where you draw your studies for the models of movement and expression you use in your art please?  I find this especially interesting :-)