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I came of age during the worst of a recession, not the COVID one, and even fast food jobs were only taking applicants with prior experience. To this day, I've been unable to get a job that requires an interview, despite having what I consider adequate interpersonal skills and a college education. At this point, even trying to update my resume gives me panic attacks, I can literally feel my respiration increasing writing this. My only job that wasn't gig work or sharing someone else's identity to cowork a remote job was tutoring at a community college and I loved it! But I got it by sitting next to a person at a wedding, it was a hour commute so I had to crash on a friends couch for my 3 work days (cause I only got 20 hours a week), and it paid minimum wage for me to teach calculus (among other subjects).
America delenda est.