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Do you have problems finding a job or keeping a job? Or do you find yourself very successful in your career?

1, Problems finding any job that has a normal formal application process - 100%

2. Problems keeping the informal jobs I do get (babysitting, petsitting) - yes due to depression and anxiety

I can keep a job but finding one is what I have troubles with. It has to be luck if I can get one. So me quitting just because my job sucked or because I didn't like it is not an option for me because I can't just get another job fast.

Finding - yes. I have never been able to get any job I've interviewed for.

Keeping - yes. I have burned out on every job I've ever had.

I am only 27 and have already had more than 40 jobs. So, I guess I can find them, but I certainly cannot keep them. The one I am at now, I have been there since September. It is a casual position, through my school, and I love it.

I'm having major problems and difficulties in finding a job. It's causing me anxiety and even more socially phobic.

Yes I have had very few jobs as I usually do not make it past the interview...and the only one I kept for over a couple months was my work study job the first year I was in college because they where not allowed to fire the work study students or something like that...but even at that job they still told me I was too slow, did not like my tendency to forget parts of verbal directions when I went to go do the task...and really did not like that sometimes I miss parts of the directions and don't realise it and then don't complete things correctly, and expressed a little bit of disapproval due to my lack of enthusiasim. Other then that I had a job when I was 16 and got fired for what I still feel are unfair reasons and in the past year a family member hooked me up with a temporary job and I managed to get 'laid off' before this job was actually supposed to end......I was told they had ran out of work from me but that is not what I heard from my family who got to find out the real reasons which included too slow, too distracted, and they where disturbed by my obvious wierdness(because I talk to myself, don't make eye contact, ect).

1. Yes, I've had lots of trouble finding a job.

2. Every time I've found a job that was a good fit I had to quit for one reason or another (job ended, moved out of town, etc); most jobs I've ever held were for a very short time.

Yep. 27 years old, unemployed since 2004.

I'm currently unemployed and am having trouble finding work.

I undervalue my skills because I need to find an "easy" job so that I know I can handle the actual job PLUS getting to work (new area) PLUS the new environment PLUS the people.
Once I am in a job, usually I get promoted within because I'm actually quite good with computers etc.

I was lucky in my last job because my manager was awesome. She saw I was "different" and was able to adjust her management style to me. It worked very well. She knew how to talk to me. (She had similar personality traits as I did and understood me.)

Since I've been having difficulty, I've come to realize that all the jobs I've kept were because someone recommended me.

So I've been trying to widen my social circle and be courageous enough to ask those I know about any jobs.

I'm not sure if I will have as much luck with a manager but I hope so.

I had a job for almost 9 years until new management let me go in 2007 and also I was getting burned out. Since then I've been in and out of truck driving jobs but I want to find a normal local job.

I'm on that road. I've been unemployed for 3 years now, and I really cannot see me getting a job. My employment advisor told me to keep to part-time work, because he says that looking for full-time will be a lot of pressure on me, since employers will expect more of me, since I be paid more. I agree with him, so I'm searching for part-time work (anywhere between 16 and 24 hours a week).

But sooner or later the job centre will see how long I've been on job-seekers, and will start having suspicians about me, like telling me that I've been on job-seekers for this amount of time and haven't got anywhere. And I've heard that the job centres are getting more strict and more pressurising, which is all I need!

I am a bit of a job-hopper. I don't have much problem with finding a job, but keeping up the appearance is impossible. Soon the disappointment starts. The longest I have stayed is 4.5 years, the shortest 8 months. At some point it gets more complicated to find some new job, older people with holes in their resume are not very interesting.

Finding: Yes.....

I tend to come off as rather "different" in interviews (although this can actually be a good thing sometimes--if you're trying to get a job with a business that brands itself as "unique," "free-thinking," "independent" and so forth). However, I tend to mess things up by casually telling a potential employer something like "I'm not particularly organized but I make up for it with hard work....so despite the fact that it looks really bad if you watch me do things, I get everything done properly in the end" (this is an especially bad move if interviewing for a job in retail....)

Most jobs that I'm properly qualified for involve a high degree of overwhelming sensory input and the ability to multi-task in an ever-changing setting. Not so easy for me to manage these things.

Keeping: Yes....

In those latter kinds of jobs I tend to get brain-shutdown. This turns me into a walking zombie (or an angry, jittery, scattered mess) who can do nothing right and snaps at people--usually my employers (once they, naturally, reach a point where they confront me about they see as "carelessness" and lack of attention).....and this ultimately results in loss of job.

The one job I did excel at, and didn't screw up in moments of overload-induced grumpiness, I burnt out at.

However: finding something "hard" isn't the same as finding something "impossible"--for me it's just hard.

i cant find a job because i am honest with my potential employers about my AS from the get-go, but i lost my first job due to depression and meltdowns.

I have an extremely hard-time finding a job due to physical disabilities. I have a rare low vision disorder where I'm extremely nearsighted & have some colorblindness; I'm close to legally blind & cant drive. I also have a tremor disorder where my hands shake when I'm doing something with fine motor-skills or nervous. I never had any desire at all to go to college because I struggled in most of my classes due to dyslexia, ADHD & my low vision that wasn't identified till my senior year of HS. I only have a high-school diploma.

I have worked before. 10months as a dish-washer at IHOP. I hated it.
25months doing floor-care at WalMart. I liked the job I was supposed to be doing but different managers kept giving me conflicting contradictory orders & we had a contract crew assisting us & shortly after I quit; the department was dissolved & contract crew took over full-time. I was averaging 55hours a week my last few months there because we were shorthanded
Last job was a custodian at a sporting-goods store. I didn't feel safe climbing ladders or handling the box-cutter at times because of my tremors & I tried getting treated but the 1st med made me feel like I was having a stroke & I was basically fired after being out 2 weeks. Said they would take me back if I reapplied but meds kept making me sick so I quit treatment after a few months.

Been looking for a job kinda like I had at WalMart. I've been putting in applications at hospitals, & other stores but it's impossible for me to even get an interview. Not sure what else I can do. Don't want to risk losing my disability & Medicare if I think the job won't work out. I am able to hold a job quite well & be a great worker if it's something I can psychically do fairly well but getting the job is the problem