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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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  • Gosh those all sound like challenging and tiring jobs. It’s no wonder you’re feeling burnt out.

    I don’t know if there are such jobs around you but have you considered being a carer/helper but an independent one so not in a care home and only caring for one person? My first job was caring for an elderly lady and aside from having to do social interacting and shopping it was an amazing job. Mostly it involved cleaning and hoovering, preparing her lunch and tea, and driving her to the places she wanted to go.

    Sadly she passed away and I couldn’t find another job like that. Plenty of care home jobs but I knew that environment wouldn’t work for me. I’m a personal assistant now but it’s destroying me. Every day I am constantly stressed and exhausted. In the office it’s me and four other women, the phone is going all day, there’s constant small talk and the radio is on all day long.

    In short, not an autistic friendly job or environment. I’m looking for new work but I can’t find anything suitable yet. I’m hoping the new year will bring better work for me.

    Keeping my fingers crossed for you that you can find something better suited to you.

    Hugs x. Hugging

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  • Gosh those all sound like challenging and tiring jobs. It’s no wonder you’re feeling burnt out.

    I don’t know if there are such jobs around you but have you considered being a carer/helper but an independent one so not in a care home and only caring for one person? My first job was caring for an elderly lady and aside from having to do social interacting and shopping it was an amazing job. Mostly it involved cleaning and hoovering, preparing her lunch and tea, and driving her to the places she wanted to go.

    Sadly she passed away and I couldn’t find another job like that. Plenty of care home jobs but I knew that environment wouldn’t work for me. I’m a personal assistant now but it’s destroying me. Every day I am constantly stressed and exhausted. In the office it’s me and four other women, the phone is going all day, there’s constant small talk and the radio is on all day long.

    In short, not an autistic friendly job or environment. I’m looking for new work but I can’t find anything suitable yet. I’m hoping the new year will bring better work for me.

    Keeping my fingers crossed for you that you can find something better suited to you.

    Hugs x. Hugging

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