What kind of job do you have?

[u/Common-Series8622]

Anyone have bipolar 1, had hospitalisaions for mania, and still have a job or career? Or been able to get through university? Wondering what jobs work well with the needs we have

[u/b-nnies]

I'm a college student (marketing and in the honors program), during the summers (and upcoming, once a day while attending school), I work in a supermarket bakery. They recently just promoted me to cake decorator, where I do backstock (so not the orders, but the stuff you see on the shelves), and it's so stress-free and relaxing.

I started off as a closer, where I worked 2pm-8pm, and that kind of sucked as it took up the heart of the day. But as I got more seniority, I got put on the baking shift (which is throwing frozen cookie dough pucks on a tray and throwing it in the oven, so it's "baking"), which is great hours (9am-2pm), but since it's repetitive and boring, sometimes I get bad thoughts since it's not something to keep me occupied. And as I built up more seniority, I got placed on cake decorating (7am-2pm), which is great, hours wise, and mentally. I'm a very creative person, and it's fun being the person who makes the silly, novelty cupcakes, cakes, and cookies.

[u/b-nnies → u/b-nnies]

I'm in school for marketing, but if cake decorating paid more (around $25/hr), I would probably work my way up to a professional cake decorator and quit school.