Careers for highly sensitive people (orchid child)

[Wearegettingthere]

What sort of careers would you suggest for a highly sensitive person?DD likes acting but that is a competitive world. She doesn’t want to do office jobs. I thinking working for herself would suit her best. Something like therapist, acupuncturist, etc. She is very creative, perspective, imaginative but doesn’t cope well in stressful environments.

… I’m not a native Westerner and I already survived organized torture. GFY 😂

House cleaner or office cleaner (after hours)

work with nhs managing medical records or billing or switchboard.

customer service phone line at jcrew or
some other bricks and mortar/ online store

grant writer

The 'child' isn't at primary school - she's in her late teens, and does not need her mother tying her up in apron strings and wrapping her in cotton wool. Talk about stifling - no wonder the dd is sensitive. She probably feels like a failure because she's been led to believe she's incapable of doing anything without her mother's help and support.

Move over. Want any of my jelly babies?

This will be peachy until those robust dandelions come and steal your properties and possibly shit on the floors for the fun of it. Of course your eternal father will come and pluck you to safety. Great parody thread OP, well played

Mines a stinging nettle

I was an absolute idiot for engaging but OP is posting under @Wearegettingthere and @Hoanna. Nothing wakes up my ass like getting called a shallow Westerner with no imagination by 1pm 😂 Can we have wine gums?

"Highly sensitive” has become one of those labels to turn ordinary discomfort into a "personality". Most jobs involve stress, criticism, deadlines, awkward people and having to do things you don’t want to do. Its called real life.

I’d be a bit careful about steering her towards a life avoiding things that challenge her. Also, being self employed can be incredibly isolating and tough - clients, money worries, admin and instability can make it very stressful.

Also lots of teenagers say they “could never do office jobs” when their only reference is school. Plenty of office based jobs are creative, flexible or people focused.

By all means encourage her strengths but the more useful skills are probably learning how to tolerate discomfort and recover from any setbacks, not trying to find a life where nothing feels stressful. Remember at some point in her life she is going to have to be an independent adult and will need these skills.

So it’s the floral equivalent of a snowflake child then?
God help us!

My DH is also a cactus! I’m a monstera.

Biologically reactive: an acceptable “worldwide” term for what we recognize in the West as neurodivergence - ADHD and autism, specifically.

Orchids are tough as old boots, though?

I will swap you for posh Marks blueberries?

I grow orchids in my kitchen. They thrive on neglect.

If she were something like a therapist/acupuncturist or anything like that, working for herself, there's always the risk she'd get negative reviews from clients. How would she deal with that?

@GiorgioArmageddi go on then.

Whereas dandelions get blown away by the slightest puff of wind.😁

I would say bring a therapist isn’t a good career for a highly sensitive person. Therapists have ‘supervision’ which is basically their own therapy vis a vis the job!
Very tough to be self employed - takes a lot of hard graft and grit. And being a creative, unless you’re supremely talented and/or create a niche that people want/need - you’re basically going to be working a shit min p/t wage job while you do your creative thing and be lucky to be making any money from it - I know enough people in these situations who struggle.

Yep - I am getting wound up just thinking about the opening post!

Absolutely, but wet lettuce doesnt quite have the same ring to it

I quite fancy being a cactus 🤔

I worked for one once
he was a right prick 🤣

Perhaps by the time shes 18 you'll get benefits for flower related syndromes

You’re a star. Love my wine gums. Who has the popcorn again?

Art therapist, play therapist, gardener, baker…

It’s definitely a theory created by a pop psychologist who has never touched actual grass (… or orchids… or dandelions) and REALLY hasn’t thought it all the way through. Is this thread stealth-marketing for his book?