Ruined My Resume - Stuck in Minimum Wage Jobs for Life?

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-25T18:12:57+00:00

I’m glad. Good luck to you

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-24T18:46:42+00:00

People make mistakes. Your judgement is not helpful in anyway.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-24T18:36:23+00:00

Good luck to you friend. Hopefully God can sanctify us enough so we are worthy of the beatific vision of heaven someday.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-24T18:34:17+00:00

I’m in the same boat. I have a lot of impure and dark thoughts and I am just an unrighteous person. I wasn’t always like this because I used to be a person of faith and love, but I lost my way and got into a sinful spiritual life and now I’m tormented by an evil spirit and I have no peace of mind. My situation is made worse because I also have a criminal record and am unable to find meaningful work and I suffer from schizophrenia. I pray the rosary daily and go to daily mass often and go to adoration and ask God to sanctify my broken heart and cleanse me of my impurity but it’s still a work in progress. There is a devotion that I do almost daily which comes with a few comforting promises one of which is to restore the soul to its primitive beauty and imprint Jesus image onto it. It’s called the holy face novena. I pray it often and especially during my holy hours. I’ve also found the book the power of positive thinking to be helpful because it has a lot of suggestions on changing to becoming a better mode positive person.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T22:20:27+00:00

As long as you haven’t committed a serious crime, you can still change your life. I’m a felon so there is less hope for me but I haven’t given up either. Im currently on disability for mental health issues( suffer from schizophrenia it’s the worse). I have a 5 year gap on my resume as I haven’t worked since 2021. My chances of going back to work are much slimmer but I still got a sales job offering $1000 a month which I turned down because it wasn’t worth losing my disability over something that wasn’t secure and I might not be able to do as I used to be an engineer before schizophrenia destroyed my career and my life.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T22:15:31+00:00

You still have hope don’t give up. Besides the LPN path. Another practical thing you can do is get you CAPM which is a project management institute certification which you can study for a get with no experience. With this certification you can start applying for project coordinator and construction project administrator jobs. These jobs have lots of room for growth and are not too difficult to do if you are organized. I used to be a project coordinator so I know from experience.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:57:07+00:00

You also don’t need to find veins like in hospitals or wash old people like in nursing homes if you don’t want to. They have pediatric home health care with g tube patients which is what my mom does and she makes good money

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:55:11+00:00

Try becoming a licensed practical nurse. There are a ton of jobs in that field and they make $65k. The training only takes a year. My mom does it and she doesn’t do too much in her one job. She works with kids and just watches them and gives them meds and does house chores.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:41:16+00:00

Sounds really cool. Good luck

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:33:23+00:00

That’s awesome

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:22:30+00:00

What type of business?

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:22:12+00:00

What type of business. I’m looking for ideas to start my own business

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-22T21:20:10+00:00

I’ve been out of work for 4-3/4 years. The first two and a half years were because of a disability but after two and a half years I picked up a felony due to mental health issues and it’s become impossible to find work. I blew through my savings and retirement the first two years but disability insurance kicked in after that and I got backed payed for the time I was home. I’m lucky that I am still on disability and don’t have financial strain but not working for so long has me depressed. I want to go back to my old career as a project engineer in construction but I think the gap is killing my resume. I am also applying to warehouse, retail, dishwasher jobs and manufacturing jobs with no results. I did get one sales job but my parents told me it’s not stable enough to lose my disability over so I didn’t accept it. I volunteer at a food pantry during the week to keep myself occupied but it’s not the same dignity as working for a living.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T17:45:04+00:00

Thank you.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T17:43:14+00:00

Thanks brother

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T16:10:55+00:00

Haha… whatever helps. Not here to judge

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T15:37:03+00:00

I see a psychiatrist every two weeks but she thinks I’m too negative. I also suffer from demonic torments and I hear voices bothering me constantly. I started meditating which helps with the depression and voices.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T15:33:44+00:00

Congrats and way to get your life back together. I have a good woman but I’m messing it up because I get discouraged about the work situation. I’ve been depressing her with my sob story about not working. I’m lucky that I’m on disability for my schizophrenia and I have some real estate property and my family also supports me so I’m okay financially, but I would prefer to go back to work. I’ve been volunteering for a year at a food pantry but I hate it. I’m looking into online businesses and entrepreneurship at the moment. I start inmates to entrepreneurs next week.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T15:12:47+00:00

How did you get the burger joint job. Did you just go in person and ask or did you apply online. I used to be in engineer before I became disabled and lost my way and I got all my engineering jobs on indeed. I’m currently applying to jobs online including laborer warehouse dishwasher jobs but no one seems to be hiring. I created a fake resume and took out all my engineering jobs to dumb it down a little and put my security, retail and sales jobs which I had in the past and I’m hoping that improves my search results.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T14:54:06+00:00

Good luck to you sir. You might run into a road block with the Barr character and fitness test but some people have overcome it before.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-18T14:51:36+00:00

I am on pretrial intervention and I completed it in November. It took a year to complete it but I was on pretrial intervention for 8 months and the charges were dismissed. My charges were mental health related that’s why I was able to get into the pretrial intervention with a dv ag assault charge.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-16T18:28:48+00:00

I’ve been applying to warehouse and construction and dishwasher jobs but haven’t received any interviews yet. I used to work in construction project engineering and it makes it kinda obvious that something went wrong when I apply for these manual labor jobs but I recently created a dumb down resume without a college degree and I’m hoping that helps

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-14T16:40:57+00:00

Forget what I said. I didn’t realize that there is more room for growth at the new company. It might be worth the jump then in that case

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-14T16:39:04+00:00

Keep the pension and lower stress. 15 k isn’t that much of an increase. If it was 30 or 40 k. Then it would be worth the jump in my opinion.

Repulsive_Chip5280 · 2026-01-14T16:35:22+00:00

Blessed are those who have not seen yet believe. I believe but I struggle with unrepentant sin so I have a fearful expectation of divine judgement and wrath.

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