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A little backstory: due to crippling depression combined with the recession, my career completely disintegrated in 2009/2010. Since then I have had to move back in with my parents and have spent the last 5 years mostly out of work, with 1 1/2 years spent working at Walmart and another 2 years spent on a failed attempt to go back to school for a degree. The return to school was unfortunately ruined again by my depression, and now I have basically nothing to show for it except lots of student loan debt. Now I am trying once again to get back into the workforce, but having been out of work for so much time in the last 6 years, and having lost contact with everyone I knew professionally due to my tendency to isolate, I have very little going for me, so I am applying mostly to minimum wage jobs. The application process to get into these jobs feels utterly ridiculous. I am applying for temporary, part time, minimum wage jobs, and the applications tend to take 1 1/2 to 2 hours each to submit, and they require me to upload a resume and cover letter, then re-input all the information from my resume, often along with additional information like requiring the names of my supervisors at my previous jobs, many of which I cant remember the names of. They also almost always require me to provide 3 professional references, of which I have none. I have also had one of these jobs require me to submit a Letter of Introduction, which I had no idea how to procure since I didn't know anyone who worked there. After taking over an hour to do this, I often then have to complete an online assessment presenting me with ~50-100 questions and I have to mark my responses. And after I do all of that, I never hear from the companies in question. How the loving poo poo do people actually find jobs, and how am I supposed to be able to put my life back together when the most menial of work has such ridiculous hurdles placed in front of it?
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Doghouse posted:You should really focus on getting your depression treated. Are you on medication for it? Applying for jobs will seem much easier if your depression is under control. I have been treating my depression constantly (almost, when I get low enough I stop taking medication or going to therapy) for the last 5 years. My depression is incredibly treatment resistant though. I have tried roughly 20 different medications, lots of therapy, and even electro convulsive therapy. Very little has even made a dent. On a positive note despite the ridiculous frustration I was feeling that led to me starting this thread, I actually got contacted back for one of the non-minimum wage jobs I applied to. I just started training for a Tier 2 tech support position for a small Internet/Phone/Cable provider. I am only 2 days in, but I am kind of optimistic so far. The second I was able to stop applying for jobs I felt a large metaphorical weight lift off my shoulders. The trick now will be keeping my depression at bay so I don't totally gently caress this job up.
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