Success

[Eugene1988]

Has anyone been successful in professional life before his / her diagnoses? What was your salery? I live in Ukraine, had a job in international trading. It is so tough to know that previous bright and successful life is over.

 

[LORD BURT]

You are still young - you can have another shot at your career. I took a 7-year sabbatical where I focused on getting better. I am a software dev specialist.

 

[On Fire]

@LORD BURT How do you explain your 7 year sabbatical on your CV?

 

[LORD BURT]

@LORD BURT How do you explain your 7 year sabbatical on your CV?

In first job back I was simply honest about it. However I did mention my voluntary work and courses that I took. I did not specify my diagnosis just said it was mental health in the interview.

 

[LORD BURT]

I did not put mental health on my cv btw just the voluntary work and courses

 

[Eugene1988]

What about other stories? Can anyone say that she/he wad successful before illness? What was your success about? Sorry for my English. The disease has decresed my knowldege significantly.

 

[LORD BURT]

Success is more than a job bro. Success is being a good individual, simple as that. I would rather speak to a good person who does a low paid job than someone who is highly paid but a trickster and a cheat.

 

[Lab rat]

What about other stories? Can anyone say that she/he wad successful before illness? What was your success about? Sorry for my English. The disease has decresed my knowldege significantly.

I was a lab manager, successful and highly paid before I got ill.

When I got ill, I did all the shit jobs that no one else wanted. It was however, lots of fun being a bouncer.

I too, took a long sabbatical. In fact, with this virus I’ve been unemployed nearly a year. I’ve retrained myself during that time. Like Burt, I’m looking to work in software engineering particularly front end engineering (for no other reason that it’s what I enjoy doing) but who knows? You can’t predict the future and my mh has gotten worse over the coronavirus period, I’m certainly not ready for work in the immediate future, I would just loose the job!

 

[boudreauj4]

I was a microelectronics plant technician specialist. I was quite successful at it and I repaired deep UV lasers and photolithography tools. 20 years ago my annual salary was about $52,000 US. As I got more ill and the schizophrenia took control over my life I became less and less able to function at my job, until I was finally laid off. I quickly got another job and failed at it miserably, couldn't handle the stress and was finally hospitalized for the first time for mental illness. I haven't worked since and for a long time I felt like a total failure in life for not being able to work. It made me very depressed. But finally I started volunteering at a charity in my town and I think that has helped me to improve greatly. It has helped my symptoms get better, and I have become a much happier person. Sometimes I wonder if I could go back to work, or if I should go back to work. I have a strong fear of trying to go back to work because of my terrible experiences of my last two jobs ending. I also feel like I'm in a good place right now and I don't want to mess it up. I'm not symptom free, but I'm relatively stable, mood wise and money wise.