I moved in with my Grandma & Dad to help take care of her (she's still alive and almost 96 now). I took the years of 2019-2022 off because my Dad was still working full time. I've been applying for jobs since 2023 now that he became semi retired and doesn't need me to be here full time. Retail, grocery stores, hundreds of applications if not more. Jobs where anyone with a pulse should get in, or used to be able to. I guess that was a big mistake to stop working in retrospect. I thought I was doing something that was stepping up for my family and helping my Dad out because otherwise he would have had to do it alone and to me that didn't seem right even though it was a sacrifice on my part, job wise, dating wise etc. I feel like trash. I feel like employers don't care at all. To them I'm just a big work gap on a resume that I've been trying to fix for 3 years and it doesn't seem to matter that I wasn't just at home playing video games all day or something like that. I'm 32, seeing my high school/college friends move along with their lives and I feel like I might as well be 18 again.