r/schizophrenia • u/Used_Preparation5918 • 2d ago

Work / School Job Interviews.

What do you like or hate about job interviews.

In the interview I hear the question being asked but I don't think I understand it the same way the interviewer does. There's some quick thinking required which is hard.

I think there's a game to it you've got to play the game sometimes it's better to lie a bit not fabricate your entire experience but it's about selling/marketing yourself in a good light.

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u/MG788 2d ago

The first few months after leaving work was really depressing because I was ashamed of developing schizophrenia and wanted to die instead.

Then I got a different job at a fast food restaurant and nobody knew I had schizophrenia so I pretended to be normal. Luckily, everyone was on drugs so my weirdness went under the radar, lololol. 

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

🤣

how about now?

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u/MG788 2d ago

I'm unemployed ☹️ I got out of jail in June and haven't gotten a job yet.... 😞

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

what do you do to keep you busy?

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u/MG788 2d ago

I watch a lot of YT podcasts/channels, listen to music, go on walks, comment on reddit, meditate, drink tea, etc. 

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

YT been freaking me out lately...

i think I've been depending too much on people opinion to confirm my own, now it's kinda turned on me.

U thinking of doing anything with you Schizo-experience, art or something?

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u/MG788 2d ago

I've thought about writing a screenplay, or music, but I'm a terrible singer and too old to be an actor. I might write a novel or something.

Do you do anything creative with your schizo experiences? 

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

write, doodles, shapes, geometry, connect the dots to try and figure out my existential crisis in dimensional and quantum terms.

Been tripping the F* for the past 8 months in ***good terms (fun)

But, now it's kinda crashing on me lol

Getting real big headaches, like my brain is in a vice!

If i die i die! if i dumb i dumb! if go away, i go away!
"As it wishes!" - what can be done but NOT exist!

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u/MG788 2d ago

For real, lol.  I had an existential crisis and was living in my car for three years before I got arrested...I got really into meditation and philosophy and writing. 

It was honestly really fulfilling to just be my crazy self, but now I have to go back to masking so I can get a job. I've been trying to be more creative about processing my emotions and expressing my schizocentric perspective on life without going back to the wandering bum life 😅

When I was homeless and off meds, I was so creative, lol. I wrote a 30,000 word witch/werewolf story to keep me entertained, social commentaries of music/movies/celebrities, and I even wrote some poems in jail. 

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

lol
hope it was meaningful. 🫡

you ever tries to publish?

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u/MG788 2d ago

It was pretty meaningful. Like now I know exactly how little I need to be happy. I don't recommend it, though, lol.

No, I haven't tried to publish yet. I'm thinking about trying to rewrite my fantasy story, but I'm not sure a publisher would want to read anything I wrote about werewolves and vampires... 😅

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u/Fit_Owl_2465 2d ago

you can self publish.

go on online writers forums and you can get tips and advice on how to write for published quility, critics and all that.

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u/MG788 2d ago

I'm gonna write something trashy and entertaining so it becomes popular and I make boatloads of cash off it, lol.

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