LunaisResilientContributor
What do you think I should do?
First time posting, new to the service - hi!
Without posting the novel that is my life story, here is my most pressing problem that I am hoping someone on here has some sort of answer to or idea.
I have anxiety, depression, C-PTSD, epilepsy, fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Basically, I am always in a hell of a lot of pain and still working through trauma.
I have all the degrees and qualifications to be a lawyer and I have been working in the legal industry for the last 7 years but it is clear to me that the legal industry is not kind to people with a disability.
I lost my job a couple of months ago when I was still in the probationary period whilst I was being wheeled into surgery to have my gallbladder out. The bullying by the manager was so bad that it induced seizures. This is not the first time that this sort of thing has happened.
I think I have worked out what I want to do next but it is going to take a Masters degree and a few months to get there. In the meantime, I am unemployed and I cannot get access to Centrelink because my partner earns too much. Not going to go into the inequity of that situation and I am sure heaps of people here have dealt with similar issues with that system.
So that leaves me with the problem of having no income and feeling like I am extremely limited in what I can do. I have lots of medical appointments which have been points of contention at old places of employment so I need flexibility. I cannot do much physically and sometimes I have bad pain or a seizure and I am done for the day.
I am currently doing DoorDash which sucks and isn't very profitable or stable and is reliant on my pain that day. I struggle to not over-exert myself and then get in the pattern of booming and busting really hard.
It also sucks because I have 3 university degrees and I am capable of more and I originally went into the legal industry to help people. I couldn't do anything medical because I do not have the stomach or immune system for it.
Does anyone here have any magical ideas about how I can make money in a way that is, I have to use the term, safe? I need to not exacerbate any of my medical conditions and I need to be doing something fulfilling. But the whole spending hours on applications, getting a job and then being kicked in the guts again is really messing with me.
Any magical suggestions guys?
