Look…. I’m only 22 and I’m not gonna lie my resume ain’t that long. I don’t have a degree and I don’t claim to have any high paying job. I only have experience in retail. I quit my retail job back in December 2021 because I got extremely stressed out and saw myself going nowhere with that job, I also noticed that my mental and physical health was deteriorating so I quit. I wanted to take a month or 2 off working to reset my head. I took a couple vacations, started to eat healthier food and going to the gym at least 4-5 times a week. I said “Allright I’m ready to get back to work.” So my dream job is to be a firefighter and from what little knowledge I know is that you need to take emt classes and then obviously join the fire academy. It being a physically demanding job I said I will get physically fit first and train for about a year and in the mean time find a job. Now I could go apply to McDonald’s or subway and probably get a job offer on the spot but I don’t want to do that and because I wanted a job where my parents wouldn’t be disappointed in me. BUT MY GOD HAS IT BEEN SO TIRING! I’ve applied to about 25-30 jobs in a 4-5 month span. I’ve heard back from about 10 and I’ve gone to about 7-8 interviews. All of them I’ve been denied. I want to work with cars so I apply to car dealerships. And it’s not for like sales position or that level it’s literally the bottom basic positions I’ve applied to with claims of “no experience necessary” I get emails back saying they are looking for more experienced people like WTF? I’ve even had interviews at other retail stores just because that are near me, I tell them my experience level and they even sound impressed with my knowledge telling me they will let me know……..never hear anything back. I apply to job probably around 2-3 times a week now and every single day that passes by I get more and more exhausted with: finding a job/applying/ making a password and email/creating a profile, etc. While also hearing from my parents everyday basically calling me a failure in life speech every day so yea