What reasonable accommodations can be requested in what jobs?

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Songbearer

As the title says, I've recently realised that the long covid I got years ago really has, so far at least, really, really irrevocably changed my life, I lost my job for unrelated reasons a few months ago and now looking for a new one, I genuinely have no idea what I can really do physically on what most jobs would consider a "standard" shift which makes it difficult to know if I'm wasting my own and someone else's time applying for some stuff.

So my question is, say if you become fatigued relatively easily, for whatever reason, can you request to be able to sit down more often in a job that otherwise expects you to stay standing or be constantly moving? Can you ask to carry a lighter load in a warehouse job?

The cynical part of me thinks that even asking about these in an interview context or once you have a job will probably result in not getting the job or finding yourself out of a job for "culture fit" reasons or some other excuse unfortunately. Am I wrong there?

I'm kind of new to talking about this so apologies if I've misused any language above, I'm just researching it now since I genuinely don't know what "reasonable" means in a bunch of different contexts and jobs and thought I'd ask.

Songbearer

Right now, anything tbh, the most commonly available work around here is care work, fast food/restaurant work and then warehouses which both require standing, moving heavy objects/people, generally the shifts are pretty fixed (and if it's a night job for example, a shorter shift wouldn't help, finishing at 3 in the morning would be tough).

So I was just wondering what sort of accommodations some of those places could potentially do. It makes sense that there's no one size fits all option of course, just makes it tough to conceptualise what difference it could make in a role for me, especially when they're roles I've not done as well.

I'm looking at admin and things like that as well, ones that sometimes have remote options or are largely sitting at a desk. They're in the minority though.