AquaineBay wrote:
dragonsanddemons wrote:
What's on my mind is how I never seem to be able to do anything even remotely useful. Any time I try to help out with anything, when I ask what I can help with, suddenly there isn't anything that needs to be done, even if they were just begging for people to help out five minutes ago. Any job I find an opening for, for one reason or another I can't perform it adequately. When I ask my parents what I can do to help out around the house, I just get shrugs in reply. And the only thing I seem to be any good at is getting in the way.
In my house it's the same way. When I ask my mother what I can do to help she usually shrugs as well. My mother doesn't beg, but she complains afterwards sometimes that "she has to do everything" or that "she has no help"(I do try and help but then...see below).
Every time I do help and felt like I did something she usually goes behind me and does it the way she likes it so then I feel like I wasted my time! So I understand what you're going through in regards to that.
As for the jobs is it that you get the job and can't do it, or that you just believe that you couldn't do it even if it's a job you haven't done before?
Places I find that are hiring, through Indeed.com. They'll have things like "be able to lift 50 pounds" as a requirement (for things like stocking or picking and packing jobs), or answering phones as a major component of the job, or something else I'm certain I can't handle because I've done the same or similar outside of a job. So technically jobs I haven't tried, but jobs I have every reason to believe I'd be fired from within a week, if I was even hired in the first place, for not being able to actually perform the job. I don't want to be humiliated and waste both their time and mine by trying them just so I can say "See, I really can't do this."
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"