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06/18/2008 07:02 PM
otterlover1234
Posts: 110
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Boy does my title sound self centered. I was raised to keep my stuff to myself. But I cannot help loving the attention I get here, and the sound advice.

My wonderful factory job did not work out. It's a long story. And while I do miss the money, the place was like working in the fifth level of hell. It was a rubber factory and HOT, HOT, HOT. I thought I could take the temperature. But I could not, that and the smell of rubber. And due to the demands of the temp office that hired me, I had to quit my old job without notice. I did learn a valuable lesson. I didn't feel good about leaving that way, but thought it was something I couldn't pass up. Boy was I wrong! So I'll never do that again!

I do have some prospects and am not out of hope, but I feel so stupid! Why is working so hard for me? It seems to me that everyone else goes to work so easily, every morning. I just wish I could stay home! I guess a lot of other people do too. If anyone has any ideas how to get money without working...I guess that's the plan, isn't it? So I'm going to look for a fill in job for now and then I'm going to search for something I basically like. I used to work for a newspaper, as a fill in writer, and I loved that. I got lucky on that job. Mostly now I hear I need a degree I don't have.

Can you all tell me about how you've handled working? I think it must be harder for a bipolar, but there has to be some success stories, which I could really stand to hear...

Otter, down but not defeated.
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06/18/2008 07:09 PM  Top
lobo
lobo
 
Posts: 425
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I'll sign up for that no working gig Laughing. I think many of us struggle with work and for me I know that being BP occupies a lot of my usable brain and breaks up my concentration levels and my attention span.

You mentioned about enjoying the attention here. I think most of us are ADD. I didn't get enough attentiion growing up so I know I have attention deficit disorder Laughing Laughing. Glad you're here and you sound very bright so you'll find what you need.

"A man is not defeated when he loses, he is defeated when he quits" Richard M. Nixon

"If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth" Abraham Lincoln

06/18/2008 07:16 PM  Top
norma
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Otter...sorry about the factory job. I have worked most of my life. Have worked for the same company for 18 yrs...started off answering the phone, and now have a yard of my own. It took a tremendous amount of effort. Every day I make myself get up and go to work. I just make it happen...I am hard headed, which works in my favor sometimes. I don't give up LOL LOL

I don't think any job is menial or below me...I have cleaned the bathrooms, pulled my own lumber, loaded trucks, learned everything I could. Worked 16 hr days for years...LOL LOL I only go to work 9 hrs a day now...it is like being on vacation...

I learned to love whatever I do...no matter what it is. And to treat every place I worked along the way like it was my own business.

I hope you find a job you love..hugs

Comments made by me are from my own experience and they are my opinion alone, whose intent is only to share that opinion and not to give medical advice nor discourage from seeking medical help. Medicine is best left to the professionals that is what they do.
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Rest in Peace, Gloria...you will be missed.

06/18/2008 09:00 PM  Top
armymom8486
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Hey otter-I just want to say working and being BP can be a challenge. I know it can be done, because I did it for over 20 years. At the moment I am not working, but what I do is fulfilling. I love working with dogs so I volenteer at the dog pound. I feel so sorry for them for being put in doggie jail when they have done nothing wrong. Have you thought about doing a job that has less stress and something that you can stay interested in? I know it sounds like I am babbling and for that I am sorry. I really hope you find something you can enjoy for a long time. Jeanne
"These are the days of our lives" LOL

06/19/2008 04:46 AM  Top
graphdsnmouse
graphdsnmouse
 
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Hi otter..I too have a hard time keeping jobs. I get bored very easily and if there is no challenge or changes I can't deal. Getting out of bed to go to work is also difficult. I am perpetually early but I know when I am getting frustrated with a job because I start getting there closer and closer to clock in time. Your mention of a temp agency sounds like a good idea to me. Seems there would be a variety of places to go and maybe you will find something you like. In fact I may try that LOL.

As for the factory job! Yech...hot and rubber does not sound like work more like you said " the fifth level of hell". We have a plant down the road and everyone talks about how good the money is but no way!

Hang in there and you will find a good fit!

Hugs

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet & unagitated life would have suited me-yet I sometimes long for it. - Byron

06/19/2008 03:50 PM  Top
otterlover1234
Posts: 110
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Thanks for the support. I did find a job at Walmart. sounds like fun and more money than the grocery I left. More hours too. And insurance, yah! Guess I'm not cut out for factory, or at least a rubber factory. My mom said "well there's a reason why the money was so good in that factory." She nailed that one. Those girls earn their money. I'm going to make this job work out. I'm going to aim to stay there awhile. I know I can do it. I don't mind working, I just have "bipolar days" and that makes it difficult. I'm going to find a way...my family needs me to anyway.
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