I had a public mental health crisis and lost my job. Is my career over?
2 by hambone_fake | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I have been trying to recover from a mental health crisis. This had been building for a while but it finally boiled over, at which point I did some very erratic and irrational things, in a very public way, at work. I was fired and since then, it's been very difficult to find another job. I'm starting to sense that my reputation is irreversibly tarnished. While I seem to do well in interviews, I never get past the final interview with the CEO or top level exec. It's almost as if they have a blacklist of do-not-hires... Is this paranoia or ought I begin to look outside the startup scene for work?