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Rocki's Advice
Coping With Work and/or School
From a variety of quarters comes some much needed advice on jobs and job
hunting as well as tips for how to maintain sanity once in a job. This is a
particularly tough area for bipolars since their illness can dictate certain
limits that most people won't ever experience or understand. But as you'll
see, there's great cause for optimism if you take the time to properly prepare
yourself to deal with what lies ahead.
Much thanks to Rocki for the following advice. . . .
I think the biggest thing to remember about getting or keeping a job
is not to look over your shoulder wondering if it shows. If you are
confident that you can do the job, then go for it. Once you get it,
you can work around the illness. I am fortunate, I have bosses who know
and work around my illness.
There are ways to work around it though. On days when it is hard to
go in, unless you have a people-intensive job, try to stay in your own
little space and just make it through the day. I am allowed to listen
to headphones where I work - so I just plug in and basically tune out
everything but what I have to do and what I can concentrate on at the
moment.
Whatever you do is good. You will almost always make up for it on a
manic day when you get tons of work done. Try and save time off for
days when you absolutely cannot make it in. On those days, hibernate
and rest yourself.
Take everything one day at a time - try not to worry about the future.
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