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trtljn
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Joined: Jul 02, 2007
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Location: Greater Memphis Area
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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:09 am Post subject: Job Burn Out and Aspies? |
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Does anyone find they "burn out" of their job quite fast and start dreading work days within weeks? I am going nuts. I just started my job at Petco and the third week in I'm already starting to think about excuses for quitting. I am on feet 8 hours a day and happier out of the customers eye but I love pets and have experience from working 1 year at another pet store. I'm getting paid well, and getting good hours but am already burning out. Um.. is this typical aspi? I do this with EVERY JOB I get.
How do you stop yourself from doing this?
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BenJ
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Joined: Oct 15, 2006
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Location: NSW, Australia
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Yeah i find the same thing as you do. No idea how to stop though. I am as lost as you are on the subject unfortunately. If anyone has any suggestions i would appreciate it as well.
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phenomenon
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Joined: Apr 06, 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| You and I are in the EXACT SAME BOAT my friend. My job at PetSmart lasted two months, my last job (right after PetSmart) lasted two weeks. I've never lasted more than three months at a job. I end up dreading going so much I get physically ill (nausea, migraines) and have to call in sick (at which point I literally feel fine immediately). I can't tell if it's social anxiety or just hating going to work. It sucks though because my mom gets mad that I can't keep a job and thinks I'm just lazy. |
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mariiha
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Joined: Feb 12, 2007
Posts: 259
Location: WP
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sounds like a social type issue; you like the animals but people situations make you stress. wonder if it is the job itself that burns out, not you. like if a job requires social contact, it could be very stressful>>>not your fault<<<!!! and if a job is not interesting or challenging by being too repetitious and boring or the schedule sucks, yeah, you burn out quickly. also supervisors and management can have an affect on your job outlook. if you are still in school or college? cause a job plus school is a lot to digest and you could burn out fast with no extra energy to make time for you and your friends. ALways there is a period of time (kinda like probation in your own mind) until you find your own individual click with your job where you organize the processing and it all seems to come together. it varies from individual to individual so most other employees generally relate/understand that, but some don't and get all anal about things...this too will fry your brain. Finally those types of jobs are fill ins so very few people plan on staying with them. a lot of people go the temp agency's to seek employment.
I know this didn't answer your questions...just previous dealings it the mad, mad mad world of krow  work |
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Pugly
Man-child diligently becoming a Dude, man
Joined: Jan 10, 2005
Age: 26
Posts: 2567
Location: Wisonsin
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: |
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I burn out on every task I do about 45mins into doing it... 
I can plug along on a job that I don't like... but procrastination faces me around every corner. I have an aversion to getting things done and being successful.
It ever creeps into things I enjoy to do... like writing music. But I often get into a "zone" where I just want to work for hours on end... through the night... and my mind is constantly focused on the task.
I wish I could focus like this on everything I set out to do.
I doubt it's specifically an AS trait. Many people deal with this... but in AS a more extreme form can pop up.
I would love to find a job where this aspect of myself in an asset and not a liability, don't think that'll ever happen...
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likedcalico
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Joined: Aug 27, 2006
Posts: 2520
Location: The Benny & Joon town (I wish)
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| I don't let myself quit. I am no quitter. If I don't like my job, I go find another one and when I do, I quit the other. I'm the person who never gives up and keeps trying. |
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tomamil
What the #$*!?
Joined: May 14, 2007
Posts: 1358
Location: currently Paris, France, but originally Asteroid B612
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Job Burn Out and Aspies? |
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| trtljn wrote: | | How do you stop yourself from doing this? |
stop thinking about it... |
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girl7000
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Joined: Mar 11, 2007
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Location: Somewhere in the Atlantic
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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I find that I can only work part time. If I try to work full time, it is only a short time before I become unwell.
I also prefer jobs where I am left on my own to get on with things - I don't like people checking up on me or being 'in my face' and I also don't like places where you are 'expected' to socialise with your work colleagues all of the time. |
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Pandora
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Location: Townsville
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| likedcalico wrote: | | I don't let myself quit. I am no quitter. If I don't like my job, I go find another one and when I do, I quit the other. I'm the person who never gives up and keeps trying. |
But you're probably just borderline aspie aren't you? Some of the other people who post on these forums could be further down the spectrum and have more issues with coping with work situations than you.
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SmallFruitSong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:26 am Post subject: |
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I also find myself burning out quickly at previous jobs. I've been at my job for less than two months and already I'm starting to feel worn out. An example - I burnt myself out so badly when I was a freelance web designer that since stopping, I've made about two designs in three years because I still can't design a webpage without feeling sick.
I also find myself perplexed as to why I would burn out, but from my personal experience, I think it's due to these:
+ I'm a perfectionist and find myself constantly stressing about whether I'm doing my work well enough - plus when I slip up, it stays in my mind for days or weeks on end;
+ When in an office environment, I find it overwhelming being around people for most of the day.
Once home, I find that I have to close myself off from the world once home to regain some equilibrium.
@phenomenon: I had that also at my first full-time job; I actually had my Mum call for me because I was sick to the stomach about the prospect of working. I would also regularly turn up to work late because I didn't want to step through the door. My co-workers didn't like me It might be social anxiety - if this is any indication, I've been diagnosed with it in the past.
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kittenfluffies
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Joined: Feb 07, 2007
Posts: 567
Location: Gulfport, MS
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This happens to me in every single job. The only one where it didn't really happen was my job at the library where I was a researcher.
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Raseri
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Joined: Jul 02, 2007
Posts: 13
Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Yet another topic where I thought I was the only one. I've been at my current job for 6 months, and I keep hoping that I get fired for no reason so that I can sit at home and collect unemployment. That's horrible, I know, but I've had over 30 jobs in the past 14 years, so I really don't think there is anything out there for me, at least not that'll pay enough to live on. Ideally I would be a writer of some kind, but I wouldn't even know how to go about getting such a job (especially with no "professional" experience). I'm afraid that I'm doomed to a life of job-hopping through shitty factories until I die, or until no one will hire me anymore... |
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trtljn
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Joined: Jul 02, 2007
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Location: Greater Memphis Area
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, I relate to almost everyone thats posted!
I am a graphic designer, I am going into my 3rd year (was supposed to grad this year and the college screwed everyone in my year up!). I want to get a job in graphics, as I can hyperfocus and get the job done without looking at a clock once. On my next day off from work, I plan to contact a temp agency and see what they can find for me.
Repetition is good usually. But the problem is, I forget the strangest of things, and its humiliating to go to my boss and say "uh... what do I do again? Yes I know I've done it before, I forgot.." I'm convinced one of my bosses is downright irritated by my constant "how do I.." questions, but I am a perfectionist too. I get anxious about doing new jobs because I know there is a huge chance I'll goof up and embarrass myself. Plus my boss goes back through and always corrects me (takes out the food I just put in and redoes it, while I'm working in the area still.. that type of thing). AND she has accused me of a couple things (no lids on animals which I'm obsessive about. I never ever leave a lid off.) that I would never do. I don't know, she makes me nervous.
I also feel like odd man out. They all joke and talk, and try as I might.. I never break into a conversation.. if anything I jam the breaks on a conversation. I'm that way in any group, and the "just give it time" thing has never ever worked.
My mom is supportive, but she doesn't get it. She has said "millions of people go to jobs they hate, they don't quit just because they don't like being on their 8 hours a day". And then she uses my boyfriend, who has worked for 7 years straight at one place, as an example -- which REALLY adds insult to injury.
I don't know. I just feel lost in the working world. The longest I've been anywhere is a year but the environment was such I was okay for a while. Unlike Kroger, Petsmart (I got hired, and quit before I'd started because they had strange rules), the vets offices (2).. ect.. ect. AHHH LOL.
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Feather
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I've only had one job in my life that didn't end up being too much or making me ill, and that was the one from which I recently got made redundant.
It was a part-time job in a very small organisation, and I was the person handling the finances and office administration. I didn't have any direct manager, I just got on and did what needed to be done using my own methods and data management systems that I set up. The directors didn't care how I did anything, just as long as they had financial reports and sales statistics on time every month, and that if they asked me for a piece of information, I could provide it. I worked in a small office with one other person who was also a bit eccentric and we got on well and accepted each other's little quirks. His job was to answer the telephone helpline and talk to the media. He wasn't into spreadsheets, and I wasn't into talking to people, and as a consequence there was no feeling of being a square peg in a round hole for either of us. When I lost that job (due to restructuring) I spent a couple of weeks desperately missing my spreadsheets 
Now I'm temping in a big open-plan office, large organisation, having to do everything the way they want it to be done. I hope I can last it out, I've had so much employment trouble in the past and I really don't want to go through it all again. Failure isn't inevitable, but I am currently working in conditions which, for me, make it a possibility. |
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kornik
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Joined: May 26, 2007
Posts: 47
Location: UK
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:03 am Post subject: Emotional Tiredness |
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I think that a lot of it is emotional - rather than physical - tiredness. Much of this is percpetion or in the mind.
What I try to do is accept that there are going to be periods when I am going to feel under the cosh but that it will pass.
We can get through things.
Kornik
| Feather wrote: | I've only had one job in my life that didn't end up being too much or making me ill, and that was the one from which I recently got made redundant.
It was a part-time job in a very small organisation, and I was the person handling the finances and office administration. I didn't have any direct manager, I just got on and did what needed to be done using my own methods and data management systems that I set up. The directors didn't care how I did anything, just as long as they had financial reports and sales statistics on time every month, and that if they asked me for a piece of information, I could provide it. I worked in a small office with one other person who was also a bit eccentric and we got on well and accepted each other's little quirks. His job was to answer the telephone helpline and talk to the media. He wasn't into spreadsheets, and I wasn't into talking to people, and as a consequence there was no feeling of being a square peg in a round hole for either of us. When I lost that job (due to restructuring) I spent a couple of weeks desperately missing my spreadsheets
Now I'm temping in a big open-plan office, large organisation, having to do everything the way they want it to be done. I hope I can last it out, I've had so much employment trouble in the past and I really don't want to go through it all again. Failure isn't inevitable, but I am currently working in conditions which, for me, make it a possibility. |
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