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How many of you are able to hold down a job?


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10/02/2007 16:37
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 I can't seem to stay in any one job for very long. I had an Air Force career which lasted nearly 15 years before I got out to take care of my two babies at the time.

Since then when I've worked it hasn't been for very long.

I'm part time now and will not be employed in the outside workforce when I move to Mexico.

I'm working on an online business with my daughter in law.

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10/02/2007 18:19
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 ms. Bimbo,

I hope your online business goes well. My mother and I had an idea at one time for a business, but I doubt it'll ever sign off!
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10/04/2007 17:08
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 I've held down a few jobs, and haven't actually been fired from any of them before. The last serious job I had, my manic episodes got so bad that I was missing weeks at a time because I would just run off. That's when I started treatment, and was out of work for a year before the doc's thought I was ready to think about working at all, now I'm a hotel housekeeper. Far cry from what I was doing before (managing a busy real estate office), but the stress is much lower, and I have a set of defined expectations. I'm thinking about going back into the professional field, life is hard when you're making just a bit above minimum wage and you're the breadwinner. I applied for a position today, hopefully it will turn out well. A little concerned that office politics and stress might send me over the edge again, but one can only hope.

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10/07/2007 21:50
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 Man do I know all this sooooooooo damn well. My last job was a disaster!! I have been fired from three jobs and quit five jobs just cause I knew I was going to be fired very soon.

Not getting along with co-workers or my bosses, not working with the public because I just can't handle it and a high-pressure job....I WENT DOWN IN FLAMES!!Any pressure at all and I freak out and start to panic like a animal being cornered.......I would come out swinging. That "fight or flight" thing...........most of the time, I would fight and it got my ass in so much trouble. And extremely paranoid!!! "everyone is against me and talking behind my back!" Hell, I still go through that with the in-laws I guess.

Now, I am fighting Social Security because besides the diabetes, asthma, blood clots in my legs, neuropathy in my feet, and screwed up knees, my bi-polar is so unpredictable regardless of the meds I am on right now. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I love being me!!


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10/08/2007 07:00
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 Mash all of your stories together, and you have my life, in a nutshell. I am a jack of all trades, master of none. I'm $30K in debt for student loans and still no completed degree. I have a spotted resume. I have a slew of employers who would gladly hire me back, though. I have worked everything from restaurant management, to funeral directing/embalming, to telecommunications. I can actually keep jobs for upwards of a year or two and have since the age of 15. I can actually handle the demands of a JOB...just cannot find a way to get a job to coexist with a normal life. So I bottle all that crap up and it manifests with me internally and I physically break. That's why none of my employers ever have a clue anything is ever wrong with me mentally. They see me as this over-dedicated workhorse.

Now, here I am again...I've been out of work since February with a shoulder injury. Doc won't release me. I feel useless again, yadda yadda. I'm back to wondering "what do I want to be when I grow up?"
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10/08/2007 08:16
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 I know exactly what everyone means here. It is absolutely painful to know that we can't hold down our jobs in this society. I always feel like ppl are out against me, paranoid like ppl don't like me and I just can't seem to get ahold of myself long enough to keep the damn job! Thats all I ever wanted , was to be independant. But I can't,so it's something i must accept I guess. SUX!
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10/08/2007 09:31
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 I've had the job I have now for the past eight years. Like Moody, no one here knows I suffer from Bipolar Disorder. It's almost scary how well I can hide things from people I work beside every single day. In fact, nearly everyone here would be shocked to learn that I've even ever had depression. People think I'm someone who is often smiling and always friendly. It's a great struggle many days to hide the emotions I'm struggling through on the inside, but I do it - because I have to. My boyfriend has even said a couple of times during my depressed moods, "I wish you were always the person around me that you always are around your friends at work." Believe me, I wish that too. It's not easy to hold down this job. I get distracted quite easily and I often put off some of my work until the last minute and then I work like mad trying to get it all done before the deadline. I hate it, but I can't seem to stop it. I've been lucky so many times by getting everything done at the last minute, but I worry that one of these times, my luck has to wear out.

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10/11/2007 11:07
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 Some of us have no choice but to work! I have been off work only for a few months but have no choice but to go back to work, no one is going to step up and pay my bills or feed my daughter.
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10/11/2007 11:18
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 Some of us have no choice but to work! I have been off work only for a few months but have no choice but to go back to work, no one is going to step up and pay my bills or feed my daughter.
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10/11/2007 12:29
Megsa
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 Really, no one else has this problem?
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