Unemployment & Exercise VS McJob & Depression

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If I'm not working I have time to exercise to fight against anxiety & depression but if I get a physically demanding McJob I don't have time for exercise anymore thus depression takes over. Whats the solution?

I would think of my job as form of exercise and try to cover as many types of physical activity as possible while doing it and add what's missing as actual exercise. I'm doing almost the same, but kind of the opposite, often I take deliveries as a bike messenger when I cycle as exercise.

Ugh I know that feeling. What kind of exercise do you like to do? Can you buy some weights and do a little at home each day? Or some stretching and strengthening exercises like Pilates?

They say only 10 min a day can be enough.

There much to love, and much to hate, about my job. But I do seem to get a lot of aerobic excercise. Not only am I on my feet for most of eight hours a day, but I do a lot of climbing up and down short ladders. So it also ends up being quite aerobic.

If you get a service industry job - you wont be sitting at a desk. You will standing on a hard tile floor for hours on end. Not necessarily aerobic, but it wont be sitting down and being a stereotypical sedentary desk jockey. So that will be a start. And then you can just add walking on your day off.

Exercise at work isn't the same as exercising to burn off steam or for recreation and enjoyment.

My friend is a contractor and his heart doctor told him to do exercise. He laughed, "I'm constantly exercising". No; exercise for recreation not work. It's different, he was told.

Get notebooks and plan everything. Plan yourself to a job that you want. Plan to exercise in your non-working time periods. Keep records of what you're doing every half hour that you're awake each day.

You'll find time to exercise. An hour before work or an hour after.

I didn't work at McDonalds, but I did get a lot of exercise at work. I was the healthiest I've ever been in my life.
Lots of walking, lots of climbing, LOTS of weight lifting...