Good jobs for people with severe SA?

jaim38 said:

I couldn't afford Adobe products either, except the free ones like Adobe Reader. Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for graphic design, but it's also very pricy unfortunately. I use the free open source version Gimp. It sucks that the graphic design industry is moving backwards, because requiring everyone to use a single software is the opposite of creativity.

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Does Adobe Reader even do anything?

There is absolutely nothing I can't design with Paint ad the Photobucket editor thing. Hell, I could paint and draw by hand, take a good photo, upload it to Photobucket, tweak it a bit, and they would probably never know the difference. EXCEPT they want it saved in that damn AI format. -.-

sometimes you have to be willing to put up with stuff that you don't want in order to get what you do want

what do you like doing that is worth it to you to suffer through the negatives?

Hoppy said:

The most important question

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coyote said:

sometimes you have to be willing to put up with stuff that you don't want in order to get what you do want

what do you like doing that is worth it to you to suffer through the negatives?

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Nothing really anymore. No amount of money is worth being miserable. Every day, I just get trampled on even more, and I'm starting to care less and less. People think they're motivating me by calling me lazy and saying they're sick of all the excuses, but all they're doing is making me wanna stay in bed even longer and sleep it all away. I've never understood why WE'RE the ones with the problem, WE'RE the ones who need help. Maybe all the assholes who bullied us, harassed us, and talked behind are backs are the ones who need help. Passive people always get more crap than aggressive people. "You need to start sticking up for yourself or they'll never leave you alone." But then as soon as I do that, I'm wrong and I need to shut up. How about people stop giving me a REASON to have to stick up for myself? Is it so hard for people to not be ****s? That's what's wrong with society. I just don't see the point in dealing with people like that. For me, no amount of money is worth dealing with some unhappy disrespectful customer. If your shirt doesn't fit, you should've tried it on before you bought it, don't get pissy with me about it. And if it's a gift return, complain to the person who bought it for you. I have enough stress already.

**** is censored? Beef ****y....Flowery purple ****in....Huh.

coyote said:

i guess this site is so popular that the string of four letters in question was getting us too many hits on porn searches

unfortunately, the owner of the site's first language does not appear to be english

so perhaps he doesn't understand how ridiculous the filter is :thinking:

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You might be on to something. When people learn new languages, sometimes they don't realize that direct translations don't always take on the same meanings. One example that comes to mind is at one site I go to, one of the profile relationship statuses is "engaged" but there is no "in a relationship." When people questioned this, the site owner, whose first language is not English, tried to justify the choice by saying that "engaged" means "in a relationship." Except that it doesn't. I'm guessing that some word in his native language somehow translates to "engaged," but essentially means "taken." There were a lot of people trying to argue this and explain that in English-speaking cultures, it means "planning to get married" and nobody uses it in the context of just having a boyfriend or girlfriend. With swear words, different things are considered offensive in different cultures and languages. I remember a French teacher explaining that the phrase "that sucks" just doesn't exist in French. He said it would mean, "Celine Dion *sucks-in-air-noise*" or "Rob Zombie vacuums." I've heard that one of the worst things you can say in Ukrainian translates to something like, "may a duck kick you." Also, some words, like j3rk and @ss, for instance, are only considered derogatory (and maybe only slightly) in certain contexts and not in others - especially not when they're embedded into other clean words.

Draconess25 said:

**** is censored? Beef ****y....Flowery purple ****in....Huh.

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And yet asshole isn't. See above^. Typically asshole is considered more offensive than just @ss, and yet, let look at how our filter handles these things.

Draconess25 said:

... I write almost anything as long as it isn't TOO technical. By too technical, I mean anything with too many numbers. xD Currently, I occasionally write 200-word product descriptions, but they only pay a dollar each. ...

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Could you provide any link to a site that lets you write product descriptions?

Is this a competitive kind of thing, requiring some specialized knowledge?

thanks for all your help. wallflowers are the best

Bronson99 said:

Could you provide any link to a site that lets you write product descriptions?

Is this a competitive kind of thing, requiring some specialized knowledge?

thanks for all your help. wallflowers are the best

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TVStuffOnline.com

You pretty much just log in, look for products that haven't already been claimed, check out the website, describe the product in at least 100 words, then watch the video, and describe what it claims about the product in another 100 words. Most of the time, you're just rewording the first half of the description.

No special knowledge needed, but it IS on a first come first serve basis, and there are only about 5-10 available jobs per week. It definitely isn't the best pay. But if you need a way to scrape together a couple bucks for a candy bar, it's better than nothing. The work is SUPER-easy. There are also other tasks that pay like $4 each, but they take a lot longer and there aren't usually as many.

Also, the guy was only hiring through oDesk. I'd recommend making an account anyways, since I've been offered work with nothing but my SAT score and a few pictures, and Elance is also a really good idea. But on Elance, you can only work in one field. Like you can't write AND do illustration. On oDesk, you can do anything that someone will hire you for.

I'd probably get more work if I didn't undersell myself.

Things that involve the writing and background of communications.

Writing is a hard thing to make money from. Many fiction writers do it for the love of it, and at night after doing a day job. Perhaps writing for magazines would be easier.

Kiwong said:

Writing is a hard thing to make money from. Many fiction writers do it for the love of it, and at night after doing a day job. Perhaps writing for magazines would be easier.

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Yeah, I've thought of that too, but I don't know how to get into that....

Draconess25 said:

Also, the guy was only hiring through oDesk. I'd recommend making an account anyways, since I've been offered work with nothing but my SAT score and a few pictures, and Elance is also a really good idea. But on Elance, you can only work in one field. Like you can't write AND do illustration. On oDesk, you can do anything that someone will hire you for.

I'd probably get more work if I didn't undersell myself.

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So I need an oDesk account to write product descriptions? That's kinda messed up.

And I don't even have an SAT score, I never took an SAT.

Then again, I would need something that gets you more than just "pin money," anyway. One guy here says that M. Turk can be pretty good.

Bronson99 said:

So I need an oDesk account to write product descriptions? That's kinda messed up.

And I don't even have an SAT score, I never took an SAT.

Then again, I would need something that gets you more than just "pin money," anyway. One guy here says that M. Turk can be pretty good.

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For that particular person. I just prefer working through those websites, since it's less stuff I gotta deal with directly.

Really? My high school requires it to graduate.

It seems to me that somebody with such severe SA should be able to get on disability and not have to work..

Absolutely_Sweet_Marie said:

It seems to me that somebody with such severe SA should be able to get on disability and not have to work..

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Yeah, but here, you have to take meds for it if you want a check. At least that's what my mom says. Besides, I don't wanna give up completely (well, sometimes I do), I just need somewhere relatively stress-free to start.

As childish, messed up, vague and stupid this would sound but I would look at this:

I always felt that working in a war-zone or some place with conflicts would be suitable for me.. At least your phobias, panic attacks, anxiety and trauma are justified in that setting.

If you walk out alive, you might be an emotional wreck so when you go home people will see that you got PTSD and they will cut you a slack. Otherwise, you get killed in action, perhaps be remembered as a person with the balls to take such a life risking plunge.

. play lottery
. steal a bank
. marry a rich girl
. marry a rich old old girl
. play lottery again
. make a credit


. get a job, any job... any job.

I've been a night receptionist in a hotel for a while. I don't have severe SA, my SA is mild most of the time. There were times when I could just sit there for hours with noone to bother me. The downside, of course is the times and the messed up sleeping schedule, which is why I quit because it started messing with my health. And the occasional complaining or unfriendly guests, but you get used to that. It paid well.

I think eventually any job will require you to have SOME level of interaction, so you just have to bite through it.

Lighthouse keeper

Right now I would do anything! But in the long term I have considered accounting, it's a job that will always around. The problem with finding a job that allows you to work independently is that they require degrees. What to do in the mean time? I suppose we just have to suck it up and accept it's part of the recovery process.