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>>49450306
I stopped looking a long time ago, because sending all the resumes, which I hand-crafted for each job that paid over 50k/annum CAD, and getting no response was absolutely demoralizing. To be entirely honest, I'm also a bit afraid to go back to work at a normal job, especially anything in an office. I used to work an old corporate job for very low pay (14.50 CAD/hr, no guaranteed hours; averaged 20-30 per week over the year, but on-call), where they consistently criticized my "morale-lowering resistance" to management. I had good numbers. I wasn't the top employee, more like maybe in the upper 5-10% of every team (of around 50-100 people) for the performance metrics they gathered. I have crippling autism and am probably difficult to deal with, although I try to be as agreeable as I can. Have thought about weaving some lies into my resume and trying to use my limited management experience at that workplace to parlay a management position in QA elsewhere, ideally remote. It's just that the shit makes me so fucking anxious. I hate the office politics; the normie need to be- not polite, but smooth and casual and all these other subtle bullshit qualities. My light paranoia also makes it hard for me to trust that people won't fire me the next day, invent grievances, or that I'm unqualified and can't bluster my way through an unfamiliar position as an authority. I've spent so little of the last 3 years of unemployment seeing and talking to people that going out in daylight and interacting with clerks makes me feel like my skin is full of insects. Thanks for the tip about archival jobs, I'll look into that. I did some specialized coursework for such things, and have a lot of experience in my private life working with film, both organizing and storing it.
Generally I appreciate the encouraging tone. Nice to find a sense of camaraderie somewhere.