Lots of people can no doubt say they are unemployable, but this is my site, so I’m going to talk about me.
My first problem is I don’t care about anything I work on but my own projects. This is not the normal “blah” attitude most people no doubt have for their jobs, but a true inability to raise any degree of enthusiasm at all. I get very little, to 0 enjoyment out from the people I work with, I just cannot muster any sort of desire. The only thing that keeps me going is the need to make the paycheck.
Even the need for a paycheck does not generate the desire to work within me.
My second problem is that within a few months I start getting bored, and depressed and even the need to get a paycheck becomes less able to compel me to go to work.
My third problem is I also have 0 ability to act like I want a job in the first place. My attitude is always that I’m there seeking a paycheck, and that’s all I care about. Interviewers don’t want to hire people with that kind of attitude, so I never hear anything back from them.
If I had some ability to fake my way through such “chit chats” with HR people, I might be okay, at least for a little while, but I can’t. I just cannot find the con artist within when it comes to dealing with things I don’t really want to do.
Every job I have ever gotten was because someone helped me get it.
So the question boils down to this…
What do you do when you possess a collection of odd psychological traits that makes you the worst interviewee ever?
