I have no real job at the moment and I think this question is really great cos I also would love to know. I have had a call centre job but quit after half a year cos I couldn't handle people being rude to me all the time and because I couldn't get them to do what I wanted, I was supposedly too nice and debt collecting is not about that. I am struggling with figuring out a career to look towards, i just feel like a bum right now and family thinks I don't want to work but I just don't know where to find a job that wont leave me so exhausted because of the anxiety. I'm really wondering if I can just "get used to it" cos in my experience in school and in the job i had i simply did not even get close to getting used to it.

Anyways, my idea so far is freelance work in IT like web design or programming or something like that but i don't have the knowledge for that yet. I don't think you deal so many people in something like that and plus you don't have to leave home lol. Wow that would be a nice job to have.

I also like the idea of Meha's job of working with animals that's a good one i think.

...I chose a career that really made my anxiety come out. I never had such a problem with anxiety/depression before I went into teaching. I just thought I could handle it, no problem. It's been a challenge. I ended up taking a long time away from work (thankfully, long term disability insurance was there for me, I was very, very lucky) to get my act together. Now, I'm back full time as a teacher-librarian and the anxiety's cropping up again. I have to fight my doubts/worries/stuff every day. It keeps me up most nights.

I wish I had followed my gut and became a florist, or a researcher - or just something quiet. The librarian part of my job is not as quiet as I'd like because I'm starting a library from scratch - it's a brand new school. A lot of pressure.

Be gentle on yourself my friend, the answers will come - trust yourself.

I like the idea of working as a pet stylist. Dogs are mostly wonderful.

This is an interesting topic. :D I have a chronic anxiety regarding my hands (tremor which is a result of my own tension and extreme self consciousness). I have this problem ever since I could remember (which seems like forever) and it got worse during my working years. I started off working in a private company with very few staffs for about 4 long years. It's a job with almost nil interaction and as I only have myself to comtemplate, I was in an extreme state of self-consciousness. I moved on to work in an analyst job that requires interaction (a lot of it through phone) with people to solve problems and I love it though I'm still conscious of my tension. But to advance in the career, I need to utilise selling skill and product knowledge which I have very little so I backed out and changed my career to working with database stuff. Now I feel like I'm back to square one. This current job is like my 1st work that has minimal interaction with people and honestly I miss the interaction coz it makes me less conscious of my tension. I find that in getting busy (being involved in a task of solving something) my mind just wonders off from myself.

So basically any jobs that you feel you can be involved in and takes your mind off you. - my 2 cent.

I do not see these barriers for me any more. I am disabled from a triple rollover but could work if my body was not spinally damaged.

Right now you are telling yourself all kinds of things you can not do. Why not curtail that damaging thought. You only have a temporary disorder. It controlled my life for two bad years. If you want to improve you have to change your self talk. All your thoughts about yourself should be complimentary or you just let those thoughts go. It is not easy but you can be normal again.

The invisible prison that we are in is temporary and just that invisible. The barriers of today will melt if you take up the fight and stop suffering.

Take action and invest your energy in healing things. Quit thinking start action.

There is a way out and i am proof of it.

Thoughts