Do You Still Have A Job?
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Please can those who suffer with PFS in particular those with mental side effects please register your votes on the poll above as I would be interested to see how many of you still manage to hold down a job or not since taking this crap !!!
Please feel free to reply with your commemts on how your job or career has been affected too.
I can only work 5 hours a day. So I switched to part-time.
My forum rights do not allow me to vote in the poll, however, my career has taken a hard hit but is proceeding - although many days come when I consider myself too badly broken to continue.
I was in the final 6 months of my engineering degree when I got sick. With some empathy and assistance from professors, I was able to (barely) scrape through my last semester. I was in a position to continue working for a major O&G company when I finished but this fell through largely due to my sudden cognitive deficiencies. I feel like I have to struggle very hard to perform in the technical field in which I work but I am getting by. I took a less stressful position at a local firm and am trying to establish a productive work “rhythm” so my illness can go unnoticed.
I regularly feel retarded and unmotivated though and when this happens it makes it difficult to cope with my work assignments - it can ruin my day (and even week).
I did not vote because my answer would be sort of skewed. I do work full-time (and am in Grad school), but only because I rely on cortef. If I had not started taking cortef I would really struggle to work more than part-time. Even with it, at times its rough doing full time.
NO with PFS is impossible working, I lost the feelings and motivations, there is no way to keep a job.
The only reason I am still working full time is because I am the only person working in my family. I have two kids and mounting debt. I simply cannot quit.
Every day is a struggle; I don’t know how much longer I can work like this.
If I didn’t have a family, I’d be jobless and in my parents basement right now.
Well, good for you for going to work and providing for your kids, my hats off to you.
Keep it going.
I’m aimining to get back to full duty in 8-10 weeks.
Does this mean you are feeling a bit better TIGERSHULL? Good to hear of another person recovering(slowly) from the mental effects.
A big motivating factor to keep working is that I can afford to donate to the PFS Foundation. The aim is to get a better paid job if possible, then I can up the amounts.
Apologies to anyone regarding my last post. I was not inferring that if you were not working because of PFS you weren’t supporting your family. I am BARELY able to keep it together and am on the edge of falling off. I understand others have worse cognitive issues which keep them from working. I completely understand not being able to work with PFS even if you have family. I may just be in that position soon.
And Tiger, I hope your plans to go back to work mean things are improving!
I’m SLOWLY improving guys, by taking my anti depressant medication, thank you for asking.
the first year after my crash i could barely get off the sofa,flu like symptoms for the whole year almost,3 weeks ill one week ok then 3 weeks ill again and so on,previously i was someone who got maybe one cold a year,6 years on i can work but nowhere near like i used to,it really takes it out of me now,i know you do slow down naturally as you get older etc but you dont go from being full of energy for the first 33 years of your life then wake up one day feeling like a seventy yearold unless something is seriously wrong…