Re: Ashamed of my job
Your reaction is typical of social anxiety, the solution quite simply is to be prepared to accept that most people will not think negatively of you because you are a cleaner. There is nothing wrong with being a cleaner and I like most people will not think any the less of you for being one. Your anxiety is being caused by what you think other people might think of you, so you feel you have to lie or avoid the subject. But these are maintaining your anxiety in these situations, I know it's not easy but admit to being a cleaner and do not try to read what they might be thinking from their reactions. Very few of us can read body language accurately and even less minds. Once you start accepting this you anxiety in these situations will begin to subside.
Hope that helps
John
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.
From the book Dune by Frank Herbert