Hi chapo, How the fuck do you find work when you have major gaps in your resume?

Short story: I went through a long fucked up period dealing with addiction and mental health issues. I'm fairly okay now mentally/psychically. But I'm having a real hard time finding work. Last time I had a "real" job was over five years ago, also around the time I graduated college. But I have nothing to put on my resume since then. I have zero networking connects, no one to put as a reference.

I need a job real bad but I don't know what to do. With no experience and no connects I feel like no one wants to hire me, but I can't fulfill those requirements without finding work that I can't get. I fucking hate it.

I'm also dogshit at doing interviews and I don't know how to explain long work absences without freaking out employers. What can I do?

P.S. I don't wanna say where I live for privacy reasons but I do not live in America.

  • ReaganYouth [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, I was thinking of something like that... I fucking suck at lying though. How did you deal with references?

    • sebastian [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      friends or family i ask nicely to lie for me. my buddy with 0 children told me he'd tell anyone who called that i was an excellent worker who was great with his kids.