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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 work in a field probably most suited to people with ADHD and Autism...  IT!  I'll give you a break down of my career....

    • Exited College at 18 with 2 A-Levels (should've had 3, but couldn't finish the 3rd one, I was into it, but I also wasn't).  
    • Started working in a Call Centre on Helpdesk Level 1 - stupidly moved to a completely different part of the country thinking I could commute - I couldn't.  
    • Did a few temporary positions, including a Keying job on the Census Project - that led me into their IT team, on a short term contract.
    • Back to Call Centre Helpdesk on Level 1, then grew slowly to Level 2 - eventually leaving of my own accord to take the next step - 
    • Desktop Support - masking central!!  Still managed to progress to
    • Senior Desktop Support - still masking, but now less interaction with people, albeit more "global" reach.  Eventually confronted the VP of Infrastructure and landed a role as a
    • Server Engineer - stayed here for 5 years, not needing to "people" very much, and being able to learn and grow before redundancy, but straight into
    • Systems Administrator, Cloud Engineer - this employer recognised the ADHD & Autism before I did and used it to both of our advantages.  I grew at an exponential rate over 5 years before moving on to
    • Infrastructure Engineer - with a larger employer who understand the need for reasonable adjustments, and know how to let employees manage their own workload.  I'm thriving.  The general routine serves the Autism very well, and the occasion "splat" moment, feeds the ADHD's chaos, while allowing the Autism's logic to work to a solution.  My managers give me interesting challenges to work on, and hold open discussions knowing that I will often find the solution they didn't even consider viable.  

    From Server Engineer to now, I've spent at least 4 days a week working from home.  Where I am now asks us to make an effort to do 1 day in the office (always the same day each week), it feeds the routine but we have issues with Car Parking and Hot Desking which I am yet to 'formally' tackle.  But generally, I'd say it's the perfect job! 

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  • I work in a field probably most suited to people with ADHD and Autism...  IT!  I'll give you a break down of my career....

    • Exited College at 18 with 2 A-Levels (should've had 3, but couldn't finish the 3rd one, I was into it, but I also wasn't).  
    • Started working in a Call Centre on Helpdesk Level 1 - stupidly moved to a completely different part of the country thinking I could commute - I couldn't.  
    • Did a few temporary positions, including a Keying job on the Census Project - that led me into their IT team, on a short term contract.
    • Back to Call Centre Helpdesk on Level 1, then grew slowly to Level 2 - eventually leaving of my own accord to take the next step - 
    • Desktop Support - masking central!!  Still managed to progress to
    • Senior Desktop Support - still masking, but now less interaction with people, albeit more "global" reach.  Eventually confronted the VP of Infrastructure and landed a role as a
    • Server Engineer - stayed here for 5 years, not needing to "people" very much, and being able to learn and grow before redundancy, but straight into
    • Systems Administrator, Cloud Engineer - this employer recognised the ADHD & Autism before I did and used it to both of our advantages.  I grew at an exponential rate over 5 years before moving on to
    • Infrastructure Engineer - with a larger employer who understand the need for reasonable adjustments, and know how to let employees manage their own workload.  I'm thriving.  The general routine serves the Autism very well, and the occasion "splat" moment, feeds the ADHD's chaos, while allowing the Autism's logic to work to a solution.  My managers give me interesting challenges to work on, and hold open discussions knowing that I will often find the solution they didn't even consider viable.  

    From Server Engineer to now, I've spent at least 4 days a week working from home.  Where I am now asks us to make an effort to do 1 day in the office (always the same day each week), it feeds the routine but we have issues with Car Parking and Hot Desking which I am yet to 'formally' tackle.  But generally, I'd say it's the perfect job! 

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