Sabotaging My Job Interviews

I am 16 (typical time me to start looking for a job) , however, because of my intense social anxiety I only fill out online applications. So whenever I get a job interview scheduled, I always somehow find a way to sabotage it on purpose. I feel terrible that I am doing this to myself, but I can't help it. The idea of me working around/with people everyday terrifies me. What makes it worse is that my parents are making me get a job no matter what. I need some advice.

Look for library page jobs. I found them to be way less anxiety inducing when I was your age (which wasn't that long ago).

What exactly are library page jobs?

They reshelf books at the local libraries. They also help patrons check out books and return books.

Can you list in specific detail how you sabotaged the interviews in the past? If you tell us exactly what you did, we can help you troubleshoot the issue.

Do you have nice clothes for interviews? Do you have transportation for when / if you get work? When you sabotaged the interviews, how were you supposed to get to the place of the interviewing? by yourself or were the parents supposed to drive you?

Like one time I slashed one of my tires so I couldnt drive there, and another time I faked being sick. I don't know, its super screwed up and I feel horrible for doing those things but my parents are hell bent on me getting a job.

You don't need to slash your tire to be rejected from a job interview. Why don't you just go into the job interview not caring so much? Go to the interview and just ride it out. If you don't want the job, then why does it matter if you don't get hired? I'm just using logic or reverse psychology on you right now because you say you don't want to get a job, but you're assuming they would hire you in the first place.
You're actually really lucky that you're getting interviews just from online applications - that almost never happens. The majority of people need to go there in person to even be considered for an interview.
I had to spend an entire day at the mall, applying to every store in person, and only got one interview.
So just go to the interviews, do your best, and who cares if you don't get the job? At least your parents will be happy you went and tried, because its not your fault you didn't land the job. But slashing your tires is a little much.

Thank you for caring enough to write it all out,m but I feel as though you don't quite understand anxiety. I can't just "not care" because that's what anxiety is. Caring too much/over thinking things. I apologize if that came off as rude, but I just can't not care.

I understand anxiety, I am out of a job right now because my anxiety is so crippling and I'm 22. Even going to college makes me incredibly nervous. I know it's hard to not care, but that's literally what everyone else in that environment is doing actively. I don't really know any secret tricks to stop caring because I would have used them myself. Perhaps medication is the answer. It's something I'm going to look into. But also, you could look for jobs that are "behind the scenes" that do not involve working with people, or "customer service".
There are places like mail rooms, libraries, kitchens (dishwasher or prep cook or line cook or baker - bakers actually work night shifts a lot of the time and they are often working alone). There are telephone jobs that only require you to talk on the phone and never be seen, such as 911 operators or sales reps. You could work in a hospital in jobs that are in the labs, or environmental services, or technicians that only work in one particular part of the hospital and never meet patients.
Just look around your town for all the places you would want to work at. Then inquire about the jobs that are more "behind the scenes" type jobs and not customer service jobs.
Unfortunately being young, people just assume the only jobs out there are customer service related jobs, but that's not true. There are lots of jobs out there that don't require public interaction but they are often harder to find simply because they are less known.
You could also go to a technical school and get a certificate in a hospital job.
You could volunteer at the hospital first to get your foot in the door. They have departments like medical billing, patient transport, labs, cleaning, cafeteria, laundry, etc.

If your parents are hell bent on your getting a job, why cannot one of them drive you to the interview? That would prevent slashed tires. You can still fake sickness, still.

Because they work a lot, so at the time when I slashed my tire, they were at work and couldn't drive me.

Then you need to enlist the help of a friend who does not work during those hours. Somebody who could show up on time and to whom you would be accountable. Sabotaging happens when a person is insufficiently accountable to herself (which is more than understandable), so one of the ways to solve this problem is to designate a person who would hold you accountable. Like a designated driver

Do you have somebody who could help? Maybe mental health peer volunteers could provide this as a free service. County clinics have peer support.

If that is completely not feasible, you can be accountable by agreeing to call a friend before and after the interview. If all else fails, make a commitment on this board and report to the thread when you come back from the interview.

Feeling horrible about yourself due to sabotaging is counterproductive and useless - treat it as a solvable problem and not a guilt-increasing bad habit.

Wow thank you. This seriously helped. Thank you.

Is it the interview that gives you anxiety or the thought of working? I wonder if you made a deal with yourself that you can quit after 2 weeks if you were miserable, if that would help you go through the interview? Even if you quit the 2nd day, the next interview won't feel so overwhelming and scary. If the thought of quitting is a issue, tell yourself you can do it via email, text. Just rip the band-aid off and at least go to a interview, you don't have to take the job.