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Paid Work Woes

Pandoren

I'll start the thread by saying I'm skint. I still live with my parents and I'm sort of in debt to them now...

I picked up an application form today for a Sunday job at the local supermarket... but she said it was working the tills and I think having to interact with the public for six hours a week is my idea of hell. I already work three voluntary jobs where I don't really interact with the public but also don't really interact with my own coworkers! When I did work experience at a shop when I was at school, I did my best to avoid everybody.

There's also the awkward question "Please account for any periods of non-employment" and other than the voluntary stuff, I've never been employed- I left college at 18 and have spent 7 useless years at home. Frown

Sometimes I think I'll never be employed. Frown

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  • But how long do you struggle in the world before you say "that's enough?"

    I did academically well at school and would have gone to university if my mental strength hadn't gone by that point. I was somewhat naive as well and very unpopular too. Actually, the only reason I went to college was to put off the whole job thing as long as possible. I had no plan then and still don't now, although the only advantage I have now is that I know why (I was only diagnosed this year).

    I have no money at all after my savings ran out, my mother doesn't have that much and her husband is in debt- I've been told that when he retires next year, they will no longer be able to keep me in the house. Lately they've been struggling with the bills as it is. I am basically an expensive inconvenience and I see no way of getting out of the house.

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  • But how long do you struggle in the world before you say "that's enough?"

    I did academically well at school and would have gone to university if my mental strength hadn't gone by that point. I was somewhat naive as well and very unpopular too. Actually, the only reason I went to college was to put off the whole job thing as long as possible. I had no plan then and still don't now, although the only advantage I have now is that I know why (I was only diagnosed this year).

    I have no money at all after my savings ran out, my mother doesn't have that much and her husband is in debt- I've been told that when he retires next year, they will no longer be able to keep me in the house. Lately they've been struggling with the bills as it is. I am basically an expensive inconvenience and I see no way of getting out of the house.

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