I don't understand this. It seems to me like you're supposed to treat jobs as more than what they are. As an example, I have a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering (that has hardly been useful in the decade since graduation), and one of the questions I always get asked by interviewers and recruiters is "what industry do you want to work in, or find software work in?" Or whatever. And I always say something along the lines of "I don't know," or "any of them." Because I don't care what industry I work in, I just want a software job so that I can support myself, obviously. But those answers never fly, even despite my autism, I can tell people are put off by that answer. I don't understand!
Help me understand, through my autism, and through my retardation, what the mentality behind this is. What does it matter if I don't care what industry I work in? What does it matter if I just want a software job, and don't care if it's in the medical industry, or automotive industry, or whatever the hell? A job is a job, and that's all I care about, is landing a job, but people seem to think that I'm supposed to see jobs as this almighty, great and wonderful thing that they objectively are not. It's like a workaholic's mentality on jobs and careers, but that workaholic mentality, for some reason, has become mainstream and is impossible to avoid. Which fucking sucks. Because I am definitely not a workaholic. I just want a job, that I can afford to move out, afford to put food on my table, and a sex doll in my bed. I can do the work, I'm punctual, and it's not like I'm gonna try to up and leave each company I work at 3 months in. I don't like job hunting, either. I hate job hunting, actually. Job hunting, interviews, all that shit is horrible, an actual living hell when you have autism. I just fucking hate it. I just don't care where I work, as long as I'm working full-time, and have job security, and am making a decent amount of money.
On a related note, I also frequently get asked what companies I was looking at working for, or what specific companies I would like to work for. This one boggles my mind even further; I don't care about businesses! I have absolutely no preference over working as a software engineer at Google, as opposed to working as a software engineer at Microsoft! Why do they ask this question?! I get that different businesses have different cultures and whatnot, but when I haven't worked at any of them, and therefore, know nothing of the cultures that exist, why would I have a preference? I don't understand. Is this just normies being normies? Or am I so socially retarded that I'm missing something obvious here? I just don't give a shit whether I'm working at Google or at Microsoft, or anywhere else, as long as I'm working somewhere, I don't care. I don't give a shit about brands. This is a normie brand thing, isn't it?
Someone please explain to me what I'm missing. I'm going back to school for a different career, and I don't want to fuck this one up the way I fucked up Software Engineering. I'm trying to avoid making all the mistakes that I made with that career path. How do I lie about this stuff, like, what kind of stuff do I say when people ask me these questions? I don't even know how to fake my way through these questions, because I don't know what kind of answers they're looking for. It just seems stupid and pointless, like all normie small talk. I'm doomed, aren't I?
Tl;dr: A job is a job. Why do normies think otherwise? Why do they think jobs should be treated as something more than just a job? And how do I lie to them convincingly when they ask me these difficult questions, like "what industry do you want to work in?" or "do you have a preferred company or business you would like to work at?" When all I want to say is "I don't care, any industry, a job is a job." How do I navigate these social moors successfully?
Help me understand, through my autism, and through my retardation, what the mentality behind this is. What does it matter if I don't care what industry I work in? What does it matter if I just want a software job, and don't care if it's in the medical industry, or automotive industry, or whatever the hell? A job is a job, and that's all I care about, is landing a job, but people seem to think that I'm supposed to see jobs as this almighty, great and wonderful thing that they objectively are not. It's like a workaholic's mentality on jobs and careers, but that workaholic mentality, for some reason, has become mainstream and is impossible to avoid. Which fucking sucks. Because I am definitely not a workaholic. I just want a job, that I can afford to move out, afford to put food on my table, and a sex doll in my bed. I can do the work, I'm punctual, and it's not like I'm gonna try to up and leave each company I work at 3 months in. I don't like job hunting, either. I hate job hunting, actually. Job hunting, interviews, all that shit is horrible, an actual living hell when you have autism. I just fucking hate it. I just don't care where I work, as long as I'm working full-time, and have job security, and am making a decent amount of money.
On a related note, I also frequently get asked what companies I was looking at working for, or what specific companies I would like to work for. This one boggles my mind even further; I don't care about businesses! I have absolutely no preference over working as a software engineer at Google, as opposed to working as a software engineer at Microsoft! Why do they ask this question?! I get that different businesses have different cultures and whatnot, but when I haven't worked at any of them, and therefore, know nothing of the cultures that exist, why would I have a preference? I don't understand. Is this just normies being normies? Or am I so socially retarded that I'm missing something obvious here? I just don't give a shit whether I'm working at Google or at Microsoft, or anywhere else, as long as I'm working somewhere, I don't care. I don't give a shit about brands. This is a normie brand thing, isn't it?
Someone please explain to me what I'm missing. I'm going back to school for a different career, and I don't want to fuck this one up the way I fucked up Software Engineering. I'm trying to avoid making all the mistakes that I made with that career path. How do I lie about this stuff, like, what kind of stuff do I say when people ask me these questions? I don't even know how to fake my way through these questions, because I don't know what kind of answers they're looking for. It just seems stupid and pointless, like all normie small talk. I'm doomed, aren't I?
Tl;dr: A job is a job. Why do normies think otherwise? Why do they think jobs should be treated as something more than just a job? And how do I lie to them convincingly when they ask me these difficult questions, like "what industry do you want to work in?" or "do you have a preferred company or business you would like to work at?" When all I want to say is "I don't care, any industry, a job is a job." How do I navigate these social moors successfully?
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