u/Forsaken-Turnover637

I used to have a job at Woolworths through year 9 and 10 however I quit to focus on VCE. I live around in the west and consistently go into the city for university so I have been applying from Werribee to Docklands. I'm currently at (Clayton) Monash so I've been trying to find a part time or casual job that would only expect me to come in for around 2-3 shifts a week (preferably on the weekend) so I can continue to focus on studying. I have my first aid certificate, my RSA, experience, and have been applying online, and in person for a year now. I rarely get past the first stage online, and I never hear back from businesses I've applied to in person.

All my friends are out in the workforce gaining experience while I feel stuck, unable to get my foot back in the door. I am lucky to live with loving parents who place a lot of value on education and are in a secure enough position to financially support me while I'm studying, however I know getting a job would reduce my financial burden on them. I understand this is what just about everyone on here is going through and it's just the reality of the current Australia job market, and I'm not going to stop trying, however I wanted to post as I'm feeling quite frustrated for my parents, and discouraged about my future job prospects. :(

What more can I do to heighten my chances of getting hired? Should I volunteer so i can have more experience on my resume? I am planning on getting my Working with Children's certificate and may go through a barista course. Should I go through a temp agency? If anyone has any advice I would be extremely grateful.

i’m in uni. i have a shit load of assignments coming up next week. i have the opportunity to start now, a whole week in advance, which would give me a (relatively) stress free next week. i usually try to get to a public library or my uni library early to study for the whole day.

i have been here since 10am, it’s 2:30pm right now, and i have once again got absolutely nothing done. this always happens to me. i can’t count the amount of times this has happened to me. i feel so frustrated and defeated. i get up early. i go all the way into the city to go to the library. i plan my whole day. then i just sit there and do everything but study until the assignment is on my doorstep. there is so much urgency to go the assignment and anxiety about it pent up in my mind, but my body is just not doing what i want it to do. it’s like the only way my body will listen is if the stress gets so much it impairs my daily functioning.

i feel so guilty. i crave structure so much but i can never adhere to it. and i’m so hungry right now but i feel too guilty to get up leave the library and eat something. i’d like to think it’s the phone and if i just put it away i’d do my work, but i know it’s not, it’s everything, if it’s not my phone it’s my computer, if it’s not my computer it’s sleeping, if it’s not sleeping it’s staring off into space, it’s always something.

i need to be medicated. but i need a diagnosis. i should’ve got one when my psychiatrist offered to put me on the wait list because it was clear i needed systemic support. but i didn’t think i would make it out of high school so i decided there was no point.

i just know next week i will be crashing out the day before the assignment is due because i haven’t even started. and i want to badly for that not to be the case but every step i try to take to avoid that outcome feels completely futile.