[Sanzio]

I'm 21 years old, and just left my first full time job (still live with my parents). Since december of the last year I have been in at least 10 job interviews. In all of them I had a negative answer, probably due lack of experience. In april of this year I was called to work as electronic technician (I have a course in the area), so I accepted. The job wasn't like I expected, and after two months waking up every day unmotivated to work, arriving home tired and indisposed to do anything (especially to study, which I must do to enter in a college next year), I resigned from my job. The wage wasn't bad, but everything else was (for me).

I don't know if I did the right thing, but I felt like the job was holding me back.

[Travelinglady]

Hi, Sanzio, and welcome to Psych Central! I think you will need to ask yourself what you are looking for in a job. Was it the actual work itself or the long hours that was the problem or both? So, have you decided you never want another electronics technician's job again?

Are you looking for other work? Remember that you will need to hang on for a while with some job to get the experience companies are looking for. But maybe that wasn't the job for you.

[Sanzio]

I do like electronics, but this job almost have nothing to do with it, even someone with no knowledge in electronics could do my work.

I know I need some experience, the best jobs in the area need it, especially those to work with medical equipment.
But despite being an "electronics technician" in this job, my daily tasks are not much related to it, therefore staying on it will not give me any useful experience (attractive for other jobs, better ones).

[AlwaysWondering182]

Personally it sounds like you made the right decision IMO. If it wasn't for you, you felt it, and that's why you left. It sounds like it wasn't giving you the experience you wanted in order to further a career in that field, and also it wasn't what you expected it to be when you got the job.

I've left quite a few jobs due to the stress of my social anxiety, and at first it was hard for people to understand that and kept thinking I was just lazy and didn't want to work. I hope your family is understanding. Just let them know that it really wasn't for you and that you wanted the opportunity to learn skills that would be applicable in the future.

If you don't wake up and at least in some way look forward to doing your job, that definitely has an effect on whether or not you will be happy with it. Take the time and find something that suits you, it's out there!