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All I’ve ever done my whole adult life is work in the shipping/receiving section of a factory. Before that I was a Supply Specialist in the Navy. but I’m now 65 and I am physically unable to do this kind of stuff any more. Also due to a recent auto accident where some one “t-boned” my car and sent me to the hospital with a broken rib, punctured lung, and a dislocated shoulder which doctor says will never be as it was before the accident. I live in a city where most of the available jobs are in manufacturing but I have NO experience or skills in manufacturing at all, just clerical/office work which is traditionally done by women. I have a few moderate skills using a computer but again, places want lots more experience and skills than I have. So I’m feeling like “what’s the use?”Am I reading you right? You do not have any inclination towards any vocation in life at all?
God does not ask that you ‘muddle’ through your life - for sure! If, however, perchance that you do, then you certainly will not be judged adversely for it, but as in God’s favour. Many of our saints had a whole lifetime of suffering. However, it does sound as if your relationship with The Lord is strained - hence something is amiss in your life somewhere on your part. You probably need spiritual direction to sort yourself out. I think I said elsewhere that if you cannot find a spiritual director, then make an appointment with your parish priest. These discussion boards can be helpful, but spiritual direction is something very special and quite uniquely blest.
The desire to please God is in and of itself pleasing to God. Sometimes we can miss ‘the markers’ (sin translated literally means “to miss the mark”) but missing ‘the markers’ is not for the wanting and desire to be spot on. We can be confused as you seem to be and confusion is not sinful. One cannot commit serious sin in a state of confusion and only serious sin can separate one from God. The Lord is close to you, very close - now your task seems to me to be to get yourself in touch with Him - i.e. work on your relationship with Him and what He desires is your happiness, Peace and Joy. This is Scriptural and what The Church teaches…Tigger