Ashiene
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Another disabling factor of SAD in finding jobs is the lack of personal connections. I have always heard of people around me talking about how they got jobs due to knowing people who know people who are hiring, or friends who are employers themselves, or friends who can vouch for them to a hiring manager who is a friend. And stuff like that.
http://www.cnn.com.sg/2010/LIVING/09/16/cb.who.you.know/index.html
Of course, the traditional resume application and interview method works also, but many of us have never worked (or worked very little) in our lives due to the crippling effects of social interaction at almost all jobs.
In the rare chance that your blank resume is looked at for more than 2 seconds and in the even rarer chance that you are selected for an interview, then SAD kicks in to turn us mute, shaking, whimpering little children who cannot even make eye contact with the interviewer.
In the extremely rare chance that you pass the interview and get a job, you still have to face the horror of being surrounded by socially extroverted people at the workplace, and that is where most of us barely last a few days, or weeks or months before breaking down and either being fired due to screwups caused by SAD or just quitting due to mental overload.
So people like us have it really difficult. It is like running a race (because we are far behind academically, socially, financially) with towering obstacles higher than what non-SA people face. We have to put in a thousand times more effort into everything, and that's not even considering how fighting SAD + Depression (which usually is co-morbid) is more than a full-time job in itself that exhausts us to the point where we can hardly make time for anything else.
http://www.cnn.com.sg/2010/LIVING/09/16/cb.who.you.know/index.html
Of course, the traditional resume application and interview method works also, but many of us have never worked (or worked very little) in our lives due to the crippling effects of social interaction at almost all jobs.
In the rare chance that your blank resume is looked at for more than 2 seconds and in the even rarer chance that you are selected for an interview, then SAD kicks in to turn us mute, shaking, whimpering little children who cannot even make eye contact with the interviewer.
In the extremely rare chance that you pass the interview and get a job, you still have to face the horror of being surrounded by socially extroverted people at the workplace, and that is where most of us barely last a few days, or weeks or months before breaking down and either being fired due to screwups caused by SAD or just quitting due to mental overload.
So people like us have it really difficult. It is like running a race (because we are far behind academically, socially, financially) with towering obstacles higher than what non-SA people face. We have to put in a thousand times more effort into everything, and that's not even considering how fighting SAD + Depression (which usually is co-morbid) is more than a full-time job in itself that exhausts us to the point where we can hardly make time for anything else.
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