I've job hopped for the last few years, and it seems like every job I go to adds some new illness to the list of things wrong with me. I'll go in perfectly fine, but by the time I quit months or years later something new is wrong with me. It's not like I was a paragon of health before my work history began, but I wasn't this sickly years ago and I hate feeling like I'm falling apart!!
I started having migraines at my first job cashiering at a big box retail store. I never had one before that job, but now even years after quitting I have a visual almost every day. I'm just glad it doesn't hurt like it used to, because back then my doctor basically told me “idk lol take an aspirin” and that was it.
Then when I worked for an abusive manager at a local gas station, my anxiety got so bad I started having chest pain and dizzy spells. Knowing what I know now, those were anxiety attacks, but at the time I thought I was having a heart attack and was actually going to die on the gas station floor. Now, despite not being in that situation and not being near that manager, I still get that tight feeling chest pain when I'm anxious. Even the pills I take FOR anxiety don't stop it!
At my last job, I operated an amusement ride and had to clean up all the vomit, and yet again; never got sick from cleaning up vomit BEFORE working there. Now I gag just entering any bathroom, or waking up, or coughing, or sneezing, or singing, or laughing, or even just being excited. I was stoked about a trip a few months ago and got so excited before leaving the house that I threw up and had to change.
I don't know why I keep “picking up” health problems from new jobs, but it's really starting to get to me. Most of the problems that bother me on a day to day basis, I just did NOT have until I became a member of the working class. Now it's like I'm falling apart and my doctors never give me any solution other than “take these antidepressants and talk to me again in six months.”
Sorry if this is the wrong sub to talk about this in, but UGH!! I'm so SICK of having to work for a living! Pun intended!