topic Career troubles in Anxiety

Career troubles

Guest_9870 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:04:07 GMT

I feel held back by my own anxiety and confused about what career i want because theres many things i can see that would cause me anxiety.

What are some good jobs for anxiety? I wanted to do teaching but ive heard thats alot of pressure now days and no support.

I considered nursing also because i have a caring personality but i get anxiety if i have to touch someone and worry i will stuff up.

Any advice will be grately appreciated.

Career troubles

white knight — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:35:15 GMT

Hi Angie welcome

Great question, I might have some answers.

My daughter is a teacher. She's off work with anxiety and depression and so is her friend.

Nursing, nope.

Customer service is out as is anything with food- the best chef in the world gets complaints. Similsr jobs with timeframes

law enforcement, amboes, fire fighting all out.

So after many jobs and 15 careers I personally found my calling which was running my own investigation business. I'd been a pi as an employee in the 1980's for 5 years so knew the job well but by 1996 one had to operate your own business. Sounds harder than what it was.

The advantages, the reason it suited me was that I had no boss, made my own business decisions and as I was disciplined I was very successful.

So, you might find a career for yourself that means you work alone or limited colleague contact, utilise your skills and its something you enjoy. If the career is arduous then consider 2-3 part time jobs because 8 hours doing one task is not stimulating enough for many of us.

Hope that helps

Tony WK

Career troubles

Guest_9870 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:01:11 GMT

Thankyou for your reply WhiteKnight i appreciate it! you have helped a lot as i have now put a few career ideas out of my head. I will explore other ideas and see if anything else interests me.

Career troubles

geoff — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:14 GMT

hi Angie, I've replied to your gambling post and to follow on from that post, the career change should not be around anywhere you have a chance to gamble and perhaps this maybe causing your anxiety. Geoff.

Career troubles

Guest_9870 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:30:20 GMT

Thankyou for your reply geoff, I have had anxiety for many years, but i do know that gambling does make it much worse, yet i cant stop. I will talk to pyschologist about it also. My jobs atm are not near gambling sites, but when i have spare time i drive to places that have gambling.