I have a job interview tomorrow and I know it's all gonna be horrible and I'm feeling really anxious and overwhelmed...
I need to fill out their paper application. I CAN'T because I don't have the information they're asking for! I don't have any non-family members who I've known for three years or more to list as personal references! (Unless I can list my best friend, but he's one person and I need three.) I don't remember the name and job title of my manager at the job before my last one, or the job before that! I have to take a personality test and they SAY it won't affect anything, but surely it will! They'll see how negatively I answer all the questions because I've had low self-esteem for as long as I can remember having a conscious opinion of myself and they're gonna decide they don't want me there, either because they'll realize I'm too messed up for them or because they'll realize I'll be terrible at the job! I know I need to contact a friend to get assistance answering the questions about how others expect me to act (since I'm not sure), but I'm just feeling too overwhelmed to deal with it! I should NEVER have applied for that job! I can't do something at a call center! There's no way it's gonna be as easy and satisfying as helping customers find stuff at Walmart! (Yeah, I'm weird. Helping customers and making them happy fills me with joy. There's no way this will be like that at all, though...) They're gonna realize I'm too socially inept for this and that I've completely wasted their time! And I'm not gonna be able to fill out the application before 10 AM tomorrow because I still have to contact my former employers to find out the names and titles of my former direct supervisors because I'm an IDIOT and didn't keep track of that stuff! And they're gonna think I'm horrible when they see that I was fired from Walmart last year! I had ALL DAY to figure out this situation, but did I? NOPE! I was just obsessing over enneagram (people generally type me as a 6, but now I'm reconsidering the possibility of being a 4) and ignoring the problem like usual! I don't know what's wrong with me! Why can't I just be a normal person and do what I need to do?! I'm unemployed! I need to get a job! I wish I'd gone with the Monday interview instead. I was just trying to reduce the chances of my dad figuring out that I'm currently unemployed because I don't want him yelling at me again. (I hadn't been working on Fridays before my contract ended anyway, so getting caught in interview clothes on a Friday is less dangerous than being caught in interview clothes any other day.) Now I have this interview tomorrow and I can't get out of it and I'm just feeling so anxious and I don't want to go and it's not like they're gonna hire me anyway! What if I don't find a new job at all?! I don't think I can do this!!! I've barely even been looking for work because I've just been going and doing random other stuff instead! What is the MATTER with me?! I've just been feeling so overwhelmed and my therapist thinks I'm depressed (I didn't think I met the diagnostic criteria, but I guess she understands them better) and I just feel so worthless and like everything is falling apart and I'm scared and if anyone has any advice or kind words or anything that might be helpful, it would be greatly appreciated. But this is probably so stupid and I'm probably just creating my own problems because I'm disgusting. I'm sorry... I'm horrible...
Posted Nov 4, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC · edited