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Always tired and have no energy to do anything.

crawlerbasher

So I'm back to been tired and lacking any energy to do anything and my job can be over stimulating specially at the weekend. And this has left me to think that I should try and reduce my burdern so I don't get burnt out.

At the moment I'm a buddy trainer, and while I do love teaching people, I find that the company putting more reasonability on the job, has left me always draining, specially when the team is letting everyone down. Now stepping down would be easy to do and I would only lose about £6 a week in doing so. So I am thinking about doing that.

The other thing is  I was thinking of reducing my hours by 10 hours a week and this is something I have to think about really hard as I don't think I can live on such a reduction in my wage if I drop my hours like that. But I know it would help me mentally.

I don't want to quit this job, as I know how to do my job, I know how it works, and with been there for 12 years I'm also fully protected by the law.

I have hared about PIP, but not sure if that would help me, or if I should just suck it up and keep the hours I'm doing.

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  • in reply to Mr T
    Mr T said:
    It all depends on how your autism affects your daily living.

    Yeah I've read in to that, and what my autism assement says and what I've noticed about myself.

    I use spreadsheet to manage my fiance and budget what I need to pay and when and what my wage is and what is left. As I would forget what bill needs to be paid and when and if I borrowed money. I use to struggle with this till I came up with the idea of using a spreadsheet about 8 years ago.

    I eat the same kind of food with very little change from it, ie I would only eat chicken curry, Pasta  Bake or when at Work, Chicken burger extra hot with peri chips and garlic bread, with lots of mayo mixed with vusa sauce.

    I use google maps, to help me navigate new places even if on the bus or train to make sure I get of the right stop if I'm new to the area. But I am specially aware, so lets say I get lost, I have a good idea where I am in relastion to where I was.

    When needing to contract people say customer service, I would prefer to do it online and hate using the phone to speak to the person. Even talking to my parents or landlord I would rather do it via text message.

    When I shutdown, which can happen on crazy busy shift I will become nonverbal, to the announce of my boss and to myself as people asking if I'm ok and all I want to do is to be left alone.

    I've been told that all this is the kind of things pip is looking for, and the list given is just a small example of my autism and how I manage it to make my life liveable.