I'm 35 yrs old and never really worked in my life (so far) ...how do I get back on track despite all the stuff that drags me down?

There is an agency that is meant to help people to find jobs but they are not responsible for me (according to them) due to my status as a student.

I live of a student loan of 600 Euro, which pays for rent, mandatory TV (and radio) licence fee and health insurrance (which alone is 170 Euro/ month) + housing benefit of 200 Euro, which pays for everything else (phone, internet, food for me and the dog, insurances, books and other stuff for college, cloths etc).

(I've only once been to Germany, Munich, and I imagine that there are many cleaners because everything is spotless.)

It all depends where you are, but tourist areas mostly are pretty spotless.

My main problem is that I can't stand to have people around me. It stresses me out on a massive scale in a way that my brain totally shuts down and puts itself in some kind of stand-by mode.

I'm very insecure when talking to people and most times are pretty defensive and just don't say anything while sweating my ass of which leads to looking (and smelling) like I just have run a marathon after being put in a situation where other people are involved.

As said in the opening post I also have a very hard time to stand up for myself and request things I actually deserve and my experience so far has been that a lot of people (including employers) take advantage of this.

This has for example led to situations where I was getting part time pay (because of part time contract) but actually was working full time 10 hrs per day and have been on duty for the company in the evenings (concerts) and weekends (fairs and festivals) for socializing purposes.

I had situations where co-workers where pretending in meetings to have done the work I actually did and I was sitting next to that person and was keeping my mouth shut.

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