How the FUCK do you get into the job market as a person well beyond typical first job age.

When they ask me why I havent had a job do I tell them how I’ve been a terminally unmotivated and depressed degen for the last like 8 years but I’m like totally fixed now or what. Like yes, removed, I’m all hopped up on lexapro and ready to work until I’m 90.

Unsure if the “longer you wait to get a job the harder it will be to start” is a job thing or a depression thing or both.

It seems extremely unlikely that I’d be able to come up with a satisfactory lie about almost a decade of life, but it also seems extremely unlikely that I will get hired anywhere not completely cancer with zero work history at my age.