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I'm 24 and have been struggling balancing my period symptoms with my career. I'm a full-time student working part-time on weekends (I've been in the workforce full-time, but stopped to go back to school), and at every job I've been at, I've had issues caused by my period. I feel like I have the pain under control, can stifle the mood swings pretty well, and have resolved some other physical issues that used to be a problem, but the thing I'm struggling with is that I'm just so LOOPY when I'm on my period. This isn't so much an issue with school because I can balance out some of my lesser grades (and I'm still talking passing grades here; I'm a pretty good student) with my better ones and still end up with a really good average. But work has been harder to balance--specifically, if I'm working inventory (we do this every shift) and for some reason my brain decides there's three pallets of X instead of four even as I'm counting them, or it adds/multiplies wrong, etc etc. In the past year, there's only been about three times it's come up as an issue (my supervisor calls if there's a major discrepancy on a specific item, which is a fun chat on period-brain), but there have been company-wide emails each time it's happened about precision in inventory and it's getting clear that my job might be in peril if this continues. Has anyone has to deal with this before??? How did you manage it???
I guess plenty of people probably deal with this, but I can't help being terrified that I'm practically unemployable because of my 3-day-a-month error-fests. Especially since I'm going into STEM and precision is pretty important.
Thank you for any advice you can give.
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