Hi,

I've been having a difficult time with employment. I work in IT. In the last 2 years, I have only worked for 6 months. I left my part-time job of 2 years in May 2014. Then I quit, moved to a bigger city, worked full-time for 4 months and quit. Then I went to school, got a part-time gig that lasted for a month before I was basically laid off. Then I moved again (and thus left school), and got another part-time 1-month contract job.

I am freaking out about my finances. I have been living off of savings I had from my first job for the last 2 years. I'm trying to find a job, but I've been turned down so many times it's depressing me. Employers have even told me I have stellar credentials, but they always seem to go with someone else.

I'm at a point in my career where I'm too overqualified to do entry-level work (IT support), but I'm afraid that my executive functioning stops me from getting mid-level work (system administration, etc). Most of these higher-level jobs require a certain amount of expected autonomy/initiative that I don't tend to "demonstrate." I also have an injury which makes it difficult to do the more physical aspects of IT work (certain fields in my market tend to be more hardware-related, and have a 50 pound lifting requirement).

And now I'm not sure if my anxiety, depression, or executive functioning is to blame for my lack of success. I feel like a failure, but only because I have repeatedly come up short of employment. I don't know how else to present myself, or what I'm doing wrong. My resume is getting me interviews, and the interviews seem to go well - they either last a while, or I feel confident about them. But for whatever reason, I'm not chosen.

I must find a job soon, but there's only so far a rubber band can be stretched before it breaks. If I could handle retail, things would be much easier - but I know that is an environment in which I would break rapidly.