I have always been a “gifted kid” and I have heard all about gifted kid burnout, but I feel like such a complete failure, it can’t be normal.
I graduated from college in 2023 and since then things have just gone downhill. I got a great job at a school in a big city, lasted a month and a half. Got a job at a doctors office as a receptionist/scheduler, lasted about 5 months. I just left the first day of my new job a couple hours in because I can’t do it. Every time, I left abruptly with no warning and so obviously can’t use those jobs as references.
I just. Can’t. Do. It. I know I’m being childish and stupid and let things get to me too easily. Obviously, almost no one likes their job. But, I don’t know how they then have the ability to know they have to get up, day after day, and go do something they can’t look forward to.
I’ve tried looking online for ways to help, but a lot of them are “set goals.” I am always able to talk myself out of goals. I either say they are unreasonable, or that I can get them some other way.
In the moment, when I make my decisions to leave a job, there is almost nothing that can convince me otherwise. I try to sit on it as long as I can and get myself out of the headspace, but once it’s in my head, there is no getting it out.
I recently went to the doctors and got an additional prescription, but I’m not sure it’s helping much.
How do I keep a job, even one I don’t like? What have you done to help you be a real, functioning adult?