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What can I do?
I'm a student, in my second year of university, and I'm starting to look at possible jobs for this summer. I'm just not sure what kind of job to look for, because I'm not sure what kind of job I'll be able to handle.
You see, the past two summers I've had the same job. For 8 weeks, I worked 6 (or less) hour days where I mostly just interacted with one or two other people, and the work was not overly stressful. At the end of every day, I would go home mentally and emotionally exhausted. I almost had a breakdown at work a few times because I was so tired. At the end of the summer I was completely done.
This summer, I need to find a job with more hours that lasts more like 14-16 weeks so I can afford to pay for school next year. I'm just not sure what kind of job I can find that I will be able to handle. People exhaust me quickly, having to be "on" and functional for an entire day exhausts me...I just don't know if I'm mentally capable of working any of the jobs I've looked at.
Retail would be hard because I'd have to interact with customers.
Summer camps are a definite no. Not being able to go home to my own quiet room would be hard, and the energy needed to be around kids all day...not possible.
Greenhouse/manual labour would be physically exhausting and I don't know if I could do that.
I can't think of any other options...
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No matter that you are in college, if an employer knows you are available only during summer and you won't be an ongoing employee, that will exclude you from many jobs. This means you will most likely end up having to vie for positions with HS kids who want to work during summer. Its the fast food jobs and such that get high turnover because of the age of the majority of the staff. Its usually teens in HS, just out of HS, people in their twenties and an odd thirty something or older person working in the kitchen. I know as I've done that. I no longer work there but call tell you this is a job thats easy to get but the people doing it are using it as their first job experience and move on to other stuff, or a mom in 30s does it as the second income, college students going to school part time, earn money this way and are gone after they graduated, people without much job experience use this as a stepping stone to move on to better things.
Sorry if I read incorrectly the words you shared but if all job pretty much exhaust you so you can't get through the day and you can't mentally handle it either, it would seem that you are denying the existence of either a physical or mental issue or both in your life. It is not normal to be so easily exhausted. I don't know if its due to sleep problems, or depression or a poor diet along with lack of exercise, etc. People exhaust you. Well, in general, I can say I don't have much patience to be friends with anyone who has issues of a mental kind, not able to relate with people in general. I am not one to coddle and help a person stay stuck where they are. I only want to be with people who are at the same level as myself, or those who have acknowledged they have issues and want to hang around me to learn how to overcome them. Then I will work with a person. I left an ex who would not acknowledgement to a psychologist that he was the one with issues even though the Dr. saw it and explained it to him, an ex counselor friend saw it and suggested he see a professional.
You have basically blocked yourself from doing anything for work. Is it physically exhausting to be on your feet walking for hours straight? Is so, I have no suggestions. If you can stand on your feet for hours, try registering with a dog walking service in your area. Sometimes there are websites where can place their ad if they provide a service like lawn work, babysitting, dog walking and what you charge and the site helps people looking for those services to find someone. It could be a pleasant summer job and you work as many hours as you want and take on as many customers as you want. You don't have to deal with humans other than dog owners for small bits of time. If a vet clinic or animal boarding place for people who have pets and cant take them on vacation needs extra help during summer, its possible to get just a summer job there handing the overflow of more animals due to the season. But you'd have to find such places in your area who are not advertising for help and go offer your services for the summer and see if they will hire you since its only for summer. That way, you interact only with the humans running the place, the vet but mostly with animals. Unless you can provide me with some real information, the truth, nothing held back, details as to why you want to avoid people and work of any kind exhausted you, I don't think that anyone else on here is going to have much to suggest either.
I want you to focus on this one thought: Whatever is holding me back now at college age, can I see it affecting my being able to get a job after college, can I see myself in a fairly successful happy life as an adult 5 years from now without anything changing inside me physically or mentally? Can I see the same in 10 years, 20, and so on? If you find yourself dreading the future, worrying about it as much as you are over just a summer job, then something is wrong and needs to be adjusted before you can move on to a successful life after college. I am sorry if it hurts you to hear this but I only share what I feel is the most important thing a person needs to hear when they ask for advice, its usually the question that should have been asked but wasn't but pertains to the result the asker wants. This pertains to you, the problem behind your question for jobs, the problem you did not even realize was a problem but I felt you needed to come to realize that. I may be the only person brave enough to ever say so to you and its something you need to hear if you truly want to find a way to be able to function in society and have a comfortable life of your own now and after college. I grew up as a child have extreme social anxiety. By time I got to my Sr. year in HS, I was concerned how it would affect my future, handling a job, having friends, finding someone to marry, etc. and I knew I had to take care of this because if I didn't, it would affect the quality of my life after HS. SO I am not prattling on just for fun here, I know how sometimes, something about a person can prevent them or lock them out of most possibilities in life. I am healed of that but haven't forgotton what its like and in some ways, what you wrote reminded me of myself back then. I missed out on alot of things in my childhood and teen years because of it and have regrets. But I am glad I did something and It didn't last any longer than that.
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