I Don't Want to Work

I have worked in an office setting where people were boisterous and talkative, but most of the employees were relatively young and also had worked there their entire working career - the employee turnover was very low and everyone knew each other fairly well.

I just started a new job and due to the fact that the work requires a lot of attention to detail everyone is very quiet for the most part.

I guess every office environment is different but overall, as a very shy introvert, I would say working in an office and communicating with coworkers is definitely preferable to working with the public. At least with coworkers you don't have to kiss their ass and act fake happy.

 

Mortician. Medical examiner. Research assistant. Paralegal. Archivist. Organist. Bouncer. Launderer. Pastry chef. You might need to be perky at an interview, but after that, you could be yourself, as long as you are competent.

 

Bouncer? The whole idea is you have to deal with annoying people.

 

Was it hard to get SSI for your schizo disorder? I have schizo, bi-polar, PTSD and was denied

 

No it wasn't. I worked with Financial Health.

 

Paralegals work with minimal interaction?

 

i can see it happening, some times they are just in a room by themselves looking over fine print....i guess it depends on the case.

 

That's the thing, it seems like with office jobs it's like Russian Roulette. It just depends on the office. I don't want to chance it.

So I think I'll focus solely on work from home jobs.

My mom thinks I should take 30-45 days to work on myself anyway. Clean the house, dress better, get my energy back, etc. She doesn't mind helping me out.

Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.

 

I'm willing to work my ass off. I'm willing to hustle to get that work from home job. Anything, as long as it's from home.

Do you think this is a good idea?

 

Yes it's a good idea. If you fear the work force for any reason then working at home might just be the answer. I don't fear anything like working for others at almost anything but having done work out and in the house I have to say I prefer it just because I don't have anyone over my shoulder, everything I do is done on my own time and I don't have to Be somewhere unless I want to be.
As far as setting appointments to do with my business if I wake up one day with a headache or something I can cancel the appointment ten fold easier then it ever was to call in sick at a work place. There is just so much freedom when you do your own thing because you control everything. If you don't make enough money then you need to ramp it up a bit but again it's still not like a work place saying your bad day caused them a bad day. You might work hard days three days a week and light days two days a week, or what ever. Maybe you see that hard work brings more and still every bit is for you, not anyone else, no one is gauging you but yourself.

 

I also have this working with other people as a topic which worries me. I don't really know what I am in terms of introvert/extrovert because with the right people, I can chat to no end. I am usually open and honest and I detest the social norms of hypocritical politeness. The office or work environment requires getting along with everyone, even those with no good will towards you who could harm you at any time if given the chance. Now that's too much for me to handle.

I don't think it's so bad if people don't get in the labour market where there's so much unemployment and competition. If they have just enough to get by and are fine with it, that's a sort of sacrifice because it goes against the grain of everyone trying to amass so much wealth, which is a cause of a lot of social tensions in communities today. There's enough in the world to meet everyone's need, but as they say, not everyone's greed. I don't see why, with more and more technology being deployed, why wealth cannot be created with ever more diminished human participation.

 

My therapist advised me to get over not liking different people and to kiss the lovable chip on my shoulder goodbye so I can work anywhere. So now I'm normal. Thanks though!

 

I just want to bang on the drum all day..

 

I just got hired to be an English teacher at an online school. Work from home.

 

i didn't realize therapy was so easy. go in, talk for 2 minutes, and you're fixed.

 

Some issues are easier to tackle than others. But I have had situations where I went in for one therapy session and came out healed or a different person.

 

Dependant on age and capacity to embrace and pick up the complexities of IT systems - working from home is something quite plausible (Where I work it's called Agile working) I think the key lies in finding something which one is good at - i.e. writing, (data) inputting, phone marketing or other aspect of tele work can be fun - if one finds it appropriately stimulating

 

Morticians sometimes make serious bank. You don't have to be a funeral director; those deal with people. You could just dress the dead. If I had any talent with putting makeup on others, or styling hair, I would do that kind of work myself. Are you comfortable with death?

Yeah, the paralegals I have known have mostly just had to do research, with occasional long waits in line to file documents with clerks.


I'm glad you were able to find that gig teaching English. Have you started yet? How does it work?

 

The online teaching thing fell through, because they never got back to me. But I got a temp job as an administrative assistant for a condo. Luckily my therapist talked me into liking people again, because this is a very social job. I'm liking it so far. I got another callback to be a library desk assistant so I'm going to that interview on Monday.

 

Talk to a job coach about what job would suit you especially.