what do you do for a living? education?

nedkelly · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tips worrywort, much appreciated.
Maybe i need to go back to school, and do a businees course, and do payroll work from home?

Crimefish · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject:

I'm doing my GCSEs. Except it's pretty hard, 'cause I get panic attacks whenever I see my tutors, so that makes it impossible to concentrate. Also, I have an active chronic illness, which keeps me exhausted and painful in bed pretty much all day everyday.
I don't have much hope of ever getting better, and therefore I don't have much hope of working, and therefore I find it hard to muster the motivation to bother with GCSEs.

nerdgirl178 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:35 am Post subject:

I am an art history student, I hope to be a scholar one day in art history (either ancient classical art or art of the Rennaissance) right now I am working, oddly enough, in retail (very hard job for someone with SP). I would like to do a Ph.D. or Master's program next year after I graduate.

gooner · Guest

Hi I work for a small electronics company as a cam (computer aided manufacture) engineer.I trained in house,after leaving school early.I now hope to do some sort of formal computer training,so as I have some backup if something happens,but I keep putting it on the long finger.work is one of the things that keeps me going.I spend a while only working 3 days a week and I hated having the extra time to do nothing!

-Jp · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

i have been learning 3d design and animation at home for a few years on and off, done some work agency jobs lately and have done 2 sales jobs before for a bout 6 months each.

i think i'll go with 3d animation when i recover or sales/management, i would like a leading position mabey but i'll have to see where my anxiety goes.
or mabey go back to school, not realy sure yet at the moment, i'll see when i'm over it Smile

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Fredscarecrow · Advanced User Joined: Dec 11, 2004 Posts: 423

erm, doing my GCSEs: compulsary stuff, R.S, I.T, history *thumbs up*, art *woo*, latin *argh* and chosen language german.
im going to do vpsychology for A-level and i really want to become a psychiatrist or a psychologisty (something along those lines)

soon as i can get rid of this SP the better.

applesewer · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject:

Cheers for the comments worrydoll!

I’ve been thinking about it and I think, for me, the best way of deciding which jobs to go for is by first figuring out my priorities in life. Which are:

1. God
2. family and friends
3. my passion in life. My gift/ talent.

And then using that to determine when I should bear the pain of SAD or when I should avoid it. So if there’s a job that will get me closer to achieving my dreams then I may have to face my fears and go after it, but if I just need some extra cash, then I should probably find whatever job will benefit my passion the most. So that may mean taking a really easy job, way below my potential, but that is flexible and I’m happy at, so that I can concentrate on my passion. Or if I’m feeling really ambitious I could maybe take a job somewhere like McDonalds (i.e. my worst nightmare) and earn some extra cash whilst pushing myself to my limits and learning something about myself at the same time. But I don’t think that’s absolutely necessary.

But whatever the situation, using your priorities and passions to determine what you do is probably the best way to go, (for me at least).

I Dunno if this really helps anybody, just kinda thinking aloud!