I have borderline and ptsd, and working in an office environment has always felt a lot like concentration camp - even when I've gotten all sort of freedoms by leveraging what a programmer can (fear I've installed back-doors and I'll wreak havoc on their system). It's always torture. Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
If my neighbors are making noise, there is construction going on pipes/fans are whirring away working at home is better although I'm still a nervous wreck. Some apartment I've lived in, and I move way too often, have been just hell. Others have been heavenly quiet. During those years I have been much, much, much less emotionally dis-regulated.
My brother RIP and I both worked from around 8pm until sunrise 5-6am. He was a professional comic book collector/dealer who did most of his work on EBAY and by networking and socializing on discussion forums like this that attracted collectors.
I'm a web developer who's changed jobs often. I can tell you the most accessible online business to pursue for someone without any particular outstanding skills is Amazon/Ebay along with a Shopify store. Choose something you are interested in and can make at least enough per sale that each will provide a rewarding emotional feeling to you for continuous reinforcement. IE. for me $20 is nothing to get excited about whereas $50 brings a smile.
For someone with journalistic skills today there is only one way to go and its a good one: Social media marketing. Companies from large down to 1-2 people all need the service. Problem for them is its mostly the kids to age 25 who know how to use the services but few of them (even those in journalism school) can write with creativity and authority the way an adult who's been through life's grinder can.
For social media marketing you only need two skills: (1) be able to learn, love and write about a topic, a company or a product and (2) you need to learn to use Hubspot to schedule and track conversations. I don't know Hubspot but I'm signing up tonight because I'm unwilling to code for capitalism knowing most at the top are narcissists and psychopaths. The skill is too valuable, they don't deserve it. On the other hand writing has a truly natural flow to the art and is so ingrained in many people I could probably write propaganda for a dictatorship and enjoy it.
Finally on the borderline guy at in the previous (last) message. I don't know if its the borderline or the ADHD but I have done absolutely crazy things over the course of my life. I don't cut - I have used drugs like psychedelics and stimulants (no opiates) for 30+ years. It's only the past few years I understand the connection between the adhd, borderline breakdowns and self-medicating into absolute mania. Once I'm free of society's norms, and then I am outside of my skin, something magical happens.
Since developing PTSD however I do not trust myself to go there because my hyperactivity has gone off the roof, and I've been getting violent impulses that I never had before to fight with guys twice my size. I was always so peaceful and sweet but my mothers abuse killed my brother, then my parents came after me stalking to silence me, a psychopath woman used love-fraud to victimize me in every way possible, I ended up unemployed, broke, homeless and estranged from everyone except one friend. Although I've made it back into an apartment and am programming again for myself, I feel rage unlike anything I've felt before. It's somewhat cold - and as you know borderline rage is anything but cold. So I'm staying inside where it's safe with you guys and gals. :)
