tl;dr- I have several mental illnesses that prohibit the kind of work I can do. I'm "spacey" and just generally not a good employee. No college education. I need a job with a very flexible schedule that doesn't require talking to customers/customer service. Any suggestions?
Thanks for answering some questions. These might end up being kind of long, so bear with me here. I'm 23, unemployed, without a college education, and disabled due to several mental illnesses and chronic back pain. I haven't had a "real" job in a year and a half. The work experience I have is fast food, retail, and some medical office experience. One of my biggest issues in finding employment that I'm able to do is the fact that every moment of every day is unpredictable when it comes to my health. There are some days when I'm able to be cheerful, friendly, productive, clear headed. And then there are days when I have delusions, scary dark thoughts, irritable outbursts, completely disorganized thinking, dissociative episodes, hypersomnia, and my ability to "filter" myself to other people completely disappears. This obviously doesn't work well for a traditional employment setting. The jobs I've had in the past have been absolutely destructive to my mental health- hospitalized twice after chronic stress mostly caused by work sent me into mental breakdowns, fired for constantly crying/having episodes at work, etc. I've been trying to find some kind of work that I can do from home, but it seems like all I can find are jobs that require a strict schedule or responsibilities that I'm not able to keep up with (hard deadlines, no guidance or feedback, etc.). The most important things I need in a job are a flexible schedule, the ability to take breaks when I need, not talking to customers/general public, and at least a little bit of flexibility when it comes to the way the work is done. I would love to "be my own boss" and not have to really "answer" to anyone else, but I know that might be unrealistic. So finally, here's my question(s)-
Do you have any suggestions as to what kind of work someone in my position could do from home?
Do you happen to know of any companies who make an effort to "accommodate" disabled employees?
If I were to follow through with some kind of training or certification that is a) low cost and b) time efficient, what kind of training/certification would be most useful in a work-from-home job market?
Thanks again.