Still unemployed. Anyone else?

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The only jobs I've ever had were ones that didn't require any interview.

A hard lesson I've learnt over the last 15 years of alternating status of employment.



I've literally applied for thousands of jobs. Out of them, a good 5% percent progress to interviews. Out of the interviews, there's a slim chance I get the job, and last longer than a few weeks, or out of the probationary period.



I've endeavoured to attempt this, but it never ends well, and becomes very overwhelming and mentally exhausting.



It is of some help, and comfort thanks. I know I'll get there, eventually. It's this period of purgatory that really makes me feel worthless, especially as the years go by.



For me, where I reside, only 1 job didn't require an interview. I was still rejected following my "strange and curt behaviour". I wasn't acting out in particular, and wanted the job, and thought I was doing well, when someone remarked of my conscientious work-ethic. My experiences of job hunting and work here has often resulted in encountering a lot of duplicity.

I have always been unemployed. I do not trust this drive to get autistic people into work and portraying it as liberating for the individual when it can be just as distressing, draining and all-round bad for mental health as being unemployed. It would stilll be an isolating experience because it is all tailored around (supposedly) empowering individuals. Yet it is untrue that most work empoers individuals because it doesn't remotely challenge your creative capabilities and is largely repetitive. Alot of people say that they work for money in order to do leisurely things but I even find that quite unfulfilling and boring. I was talking to another autistic person who said "the more I engage in the neurotypical world, the more alienated I feel from it." For better or for worse I identify with this. Society is very much a system that consists of "specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart" as Max Weber prophesised.

Hi, I am so sorry to bother everyone. I am a third-year University student, and in one of my classes, we are trying to develop a program that creates many employment opportunities for those on the spectrum struggling to find jobs. That being said, I would love if I could get your input and insight on it! I also apologize if this is too personal or stepping over any boundaries, that is not my intention at all. Thank you, I hope to hear from you

I am currently unemployed.

I'm stuck in retail for now. Would much rather be unemployed for my sanity because I literally feel like I dissociate whenever I go to work - just clock in, go through the robotic motions, clock out, cry in my car, and do it all over again the next day. Needless to say I'm not going to be here much longer. Thinking about applying to something involved with nature because I really need to get out of the store environment.