Best Jobs For Ptsd

[Definitely..maybe]

I'm curious as to what you guys think the easiest jobs are to have while dealing with ptsd?

I'm trying to find a job while I finish up school and the usual jobs I would do now seem impossible. No more waitressing! (I've also talked about disability, which I'm really hoping I get! But $700 a month can't cover all living expenses sadly.)

 

[franciemarnie]

The best job I had when PTSD was raging, and sadly undiagnosed, was working in a used book warehouse. I had almost no contact with people, I did a lot of physical work that used up anger energy, and I loved the books. I hope you find something satisfying like I found that job!

 

[Kas_Can_Fly]

Lighthouse keeper, sadly there are no longer many occupiable lighthouses. Seriously though, maybe a proof-reader, a low maintenance game keeper, working with animals for example. But for me a job has to be low maintenance, be not too boring but not require any intelligence, not require too much physical exertion (all the time, usually it's very helpful, but not when I'm already overworked or my body is doing everything to be ball shaped), people, stress or any actual need for the job to be achieved. Personally, I think I would maybe a good candidate for isolative social experiments. :S

 

[Leah123]

I am a website moderator. I work online, from home and have a little flexibility in my hours. It's excellent for giving me a lot of quiet time in a safe place and allowing me to do intense therapy without having to hide how emotional I am from coworkers. I just type to my coworkers, so it's very easy to manage.

I'm afraid it's hard to get jobs like this though, but maybe worth exploring.

 

[Stanley Shi-Yume]

My favorite job would probably be setting up computers and devices/software... a local IT kind of role. Doing a more of remote help desk at the moment, which I don't like as much. I prefer to do it myself. Remote leads to I am mostly explaining how to set up or fix something. Which kind of leads me to a possibility I might really like teaching.

 

[Candleflames]

I clean offices and love it. I get a great work out that burns up all those stress hormones and releases endorphins. I've developed a routine so now there is not a lot of thinking and the process is almost meditative. I also get some instant gratification because the results of a job well done are right before me.

 

[arfie]

Contracting computer graphics has been my best so far for being able to afford pros and still have time and privacy left over for working a program. The feast or famine aspect and isolation were rough.

Campus gardener was my best for staying balanced enough to not need so many therapy dates. The landscaping crews were a PTSD nightmare for me, but tending the grounds around a specific set of buildings was sweet and steady. The money was not great, though. Just steady.

 

[JustBe]

What Kas_Can_Fly said!!!

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

I was a mail(wo)man before I was diagnosed. When I didn't have to deliver in the crowded areas, it was good :) I had a bike, a big carrier for the mail on the rear of the bike. In the summer, on the sunny days, it would be awesome to deliver mail in the nice part of town where it was quiet, flowers growing everywhere, bridges over the canals. Nice people to talk to, sometimes.

When I had to deliver in the city it wasn't always that good, because there'd still be strangers around me. Also in winter at one time I got undercooled because I'd underestimated the weather, and at another time the wind was blowing so hard that it nearly blew me away. Ahh...memories. But I liked the job in general. It surely made me way more fit than I am now.

 

[The Albatross]

Lifeguard. Doing the training, the physical activity, and a decade long stint at local Y's was really, really good for me. I was already middle aged or I would have gone to the beaches.

 

[Aubrey]

I am a registered nurse. When I was going through school I was so scared I would end up with a high stress job (at a hospital trying to juggle patients and doctors and charting and ahhhhh! Lol)

Luckily I discovered a job where I am my own boss. I am a private duty nurse and I take care of one patient. I have been doing it for 2 years and don't plan on ever going anywhere else.

Sometimes I envision the excitement of a new job at a hospital doing lots of different things. But I have discovered that for me.... It is best for me to have a job that is stress free where I don't have to interact with a ton of people and there isn't a lot of change.

 

[nomedic1]

Paramedic