Hi,
Please bear with me for the context first!
I’ve been off work for a period of time mainly due to ADHD burnout fuelled by work (and an incident occurred where someone from my personal life (historic in a DA capacity) was allowed to volunteer (which brought back awful memories and feelings). I ran into them one day at work, completely unaware, reported it, was assured they’d be removed, only to find out months later they were still doing it so I had the report it all over again.
I guess the closest comparison to my work is a Probation Officer (I’m not but similar) - taking on caseloads, solo visits to client homes, working with them on addressing rehabilitation and any trauma or negative issues in their life. When it gets going, it becomes very fast paced and fire fighting and you deal with some horrible things.
It’s my first day back. On my last week off, I was involved in a car crash so now have whiplash; I can barely move my neck without awful pain, so I’m not driving until a physio appointment as it wouldn’t be safe for me to do so as I cannot look to one side. Manager is aware of this and just yesterday said they’d look at placing me in one area so I don’t have to worry about driving if I could get taken to work perhaps by DH.
I’ve only been back a couple of hours and already been given 4 new people to look at/have appointments with this week. One of them is at a non-standard location I can’t get to because of driving. I’ve also been highlighted as being able to support another colleague due to my limited cases.
I know you have to get back into work but this feels like a complete bombardment already and it really makes me feel like, it’s okay because you’re back at work. I’d have envisaged taking on one perhaps, seeing how that goes and then looking to increase. Their reasoning is that the days will be long if I don’t have much to do.
Anyway (!) what I’m asking is - how can I get out of this? I don’t want to do the job any longer, haven’t for a while really. Is it a case of put up until I find something else?
I’d love to work with animals/the environment or something like that. Even children. I’d also love to study as I don’t have a degree but I just don’t think it’s financially viable when I have a mortgage and 2 young children.
I get I might have to just take anything to get me out but at the same time, ideally didn’t want to have a period of job hopping.