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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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  • HI!

    I work full-time in software development.  I am lucky in that I'm good enough to be given a fairly wide berth for what I do.  I do customer support too but that;'s all email and generally not too demanding.  Most of my customers are other developers and fairly tolerant.

    I have had some serious burn out with this job over the years but by-and-large it has served me well because I am able to concentrate for fairly long periods with relatively few interruptions or distractions.  Not that interruptions and distractions don't happen at all - they come in fits and starts and sometimes "thundering herds" but I have a broad enough mix of tasks that I can recover by doing some bits of the tasks I like more.  This works for monotropic flow.  I can listen to music at work and this is not a problem in my workplace.

    Like some other jobs, it has structure and elements of routine.

    Do you think a role like this might suit you, your needs or your style of working?

    Best wishes.

  • in reply to DBCD

    That’s interesting and sounds exactly what I need for a role. I am currently finishing a course in web applications development - full stack. I’ve found it hard at times with Java and getting my head around a new language every 5 mins but slowly getting there and achieved a few merits so far. Any suggestions for someone looking for entry level roles? 

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  • in reply to DBCD

    That’s interesting and sounds exactly what I need for a role. I am currently finishing a course in web applications development - full stack. I’ve found it hard at times with Java and getting my head around a new language every 5 mins but slowly getting there and achieved a few merits so far. Any suggestions for someone looking for entry level roles? 

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