r/bipolar Jul 23 '25

Living With Bipolar What kind of job do you have?

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

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u/Ok_Entrance4300 Jul 23 '25

I was just hospitalized for mania and insomnia and my boss is really cool and understanding about the whole thing so it depends on having a good boss or not I work at like semiconductor industry I got an associates I would get bachelors if I had money for it. Compressed work week is great for me so manufacturing usually has those types of schedule. So you work 3/4 days and get 3/4 days off switching between 3/4 days.