Let's Talk About Mental Health and Unemployment
I am going to talk about mental health and unemployment. I have talked about how autism complicates employment. We need to talk about how important mental health is.
Sometimes your depression kicks in and you just don't want to face anyone. You would think about going to a job every day wouldn't help the person.
Sometimes employers won't hire you if they find you have a mental illness.
Sometimes the employer can be the cause of your worsening mental health.
Read more here: https://www.theaspieblogger.tk/2019/03/mental-health-employment-issues.html
I am writing my first book about autism. if this book goes well, my second book will be on mental health.
I was unemployed for 5 months in 2014. It was dehumanizing, everyone looks at you funny when you say you're unemployed. They wonder what's wrong with you, they think you're lazy because you don't have a job. You send out application after application and you never get any responses.
People don't seem to realize that you're doing exactly what they want you to do. You send out the applications. You get up at 7 in the morning, make phone calls to HR departments that don't want to talk to you, and send your resume to computer systems that throw it in the ignore pile because there's some super secret criteria that nobody tells you about that immediately disqualifies your resume.
You feel worthless, because you can't get ahead. I've been there.
Right. I am sick of these 'get a job' asshats who think getting a job is easy. Like you said in your comment about sending in applications and not hearing back. I also thought about that thing you mentioned about the computer putting your resume in the ignore section. I figured there was an algorithm that sends good applications to the employer and discards the bad one. It would take 20 years for 1 person to look through thousands of applications.