Parents doing stupid things behind your back

Don't you just love when your mom does something behind your back which causes frustration?

Yesterday I got two emails which said that my job application was successfully submitted... excuse me?! >_> I'm 100% sure I did *not* sign up for a job >_> Let alone two. This happened while mom was sleeping, so I thought I'll just wait for her to wake up.

After she woke up, I asked her WTF all this is, and she showed me the jobs she picked.
The first job she chose, it was something related to JS, C#, and ASP. Sadly (or luckily?) I don't know ASP, but it seems like it's not needed, you can just work on a different side of the project.
The second job, I'm supposed to be graduating from a "high-level technical school" and be deploying web applications on physical servers and VMs. I'd also need to know Windows and Linux, scripting them (it says bash and PowerShell, but I don't know PowerShit), and deploying web applications. There's just a small problem: I never attended a "high-level technical school", nor am I familiar with deploying web applications (and troubleshooting them), and definitely not on a huge scale.

Okay, I thought I'll just cancel the job applications, until I checked my inbox for new emails; and that's when the hell starts. I got an email saying that my profile was outstandingly above all of the others, and they would love to call me ASAP to discuss the details. There's just a slight problem though: it's related to the web-app deployment job. This is when I started freaking out. I got no usable response from mom, she just went apeshit when I asked her, and just replied with useless "generic" replies like "you don't need to know all the things to be qualified'.

I can't express the feelings I'm having, but I'm so sick right now that I had to take in an antidepressant because I got a panic attack. Can someone who has been all throught this share their experience? I don't know who to ask related to this; mom is useless, and who I could ask are still sleeping, and would be most likely pissed if I were to ask them. Any ideas?
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Well, usually when they do dumb stuff it's for /you/
she's trying to help you, no matter, AND thinks you are smart if she signed you up for that crap.

Mine aren't perfect, but no one's parents are perfect, it's just a fact.
My parents want you to pay rent when you get a job and have a diploma(finished school), because you're an adult, which, in all fairness is fine, and it's not too much, you can still save up, and stuff. (I have nothing against this,)

but I want to leave this house, I need to get out, Family reasons and stuff. I love my family, but I think I would love them more from far away ;)
 
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DeoNaught, I feel the same way, I can't wait to get out of my house and study stuff at university, my parents are too much in my face and its constantly annoying me. I love my family but rather visit every now and then.
 
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@Dr.Hacknik
Why try to get out of it? This is an excellent opportunity. Either he might get the job, or, it is good practice for interviews and he didn't have to worry about the pressure of really wanting the job.
 
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@Quantumcat actually, mom wouldn't let me out of 3m vicinity or hers if she would be allowed to. She only wants to find a job for me because she knows that it's my dream since I was 4yrs old to get a job.
And yeah, I'm hard to deal with when I'm pushed out of my "comfort zone" in an unusual way. By unusual I meant that if there's something which I don't know *at all*, and is very important to do it ASAP, that's when I get panic attack. Other than that, I can even deal with the laptop exploding in my hand if I was already chill when that happened. I'll just take it apart and see what caused it to explode, and most likely fix it because I *somewhat* know where to initially look and diagnose it on a basic level.

@Flaflo she just replied with generic sentences like "you can apply to a job without knowing all the prerequisites" and "you should step out of your comfort zone" and stuff like that.

@98otiss that's what happened, and I'm still waiting for an email response

@Quantumcat I am actually really paranoid when it comes to job finding. I'm afraid of getting a job where the people are mean, the work environment is migraine-inducing, and I have no way to chill. My work efficiency is relative to how chill I am. I work the best when I'm chill, my mood is neutral, the room is dark, there are no migraine-inducing or repetitive noises, and the screen I must look at is a proper CCFL-backlit one (I find LEDs too sharp, and they are even worse when PWM'd). I also sometimes have a need to tell a shitty joke to someone and have a laugh with the other person(s). And last, I need to stay away from people who would cause me to lose my ability to chill. No matter the situation, I need to be able to stay chill, even if the timing-critical operation would result in the whole building to explode. I can only prevent the explosion from happening if the others around me don't bitch or hype me up to work.
I'm afraid of getting a job where the above simple conditions aren't present, because that means that I'll work like shit, and I'll have a high chance of getting a migraine while at work. Hence I got a panic attack when I saw the email that they want me for the job when I barely know shit about the actual job >_>
It's also important to note that I don't care about the payment as long as I can sustain myself and the other living costs. I only care about the work conditions, and it's the most critical factor for me. I'd be able to work in a shed or a basement too as long as the work conditions are present.
 
I'm afraid to tell you that life isn't that simple.
You can only get used to it.

I don't want to scare you, but a work environment will always be a source of stress, almost no exception.
 
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You'll have to learn how to work in a normal corporate environment eventually. Either you end up with a normal job or you are an entrepreneur and eventually your company becomes big enough to need to hire people. Remember if you get a job and don't like it you can quit (being careful to be on good terms with people so you have a reference). You won't be locked in there forever if you don't like it.
Pushing yourself to get used to it now is a great idea. As a 19 year old you get a lot of leeway because you wouldn't be expected to have any professional experience yet. But as you get older there will be less tolerance for learning how the world works, and you'd be expected to be professional right away without making mistakes - the older you get without learning these skills the harder it will be later when you need to get a job (or employ people who want to stick around). If you aren't going to university then you even have a slight advantage on others - you can start gaining experience now while they won't be able to until they're around 21 or 22.
Getting that first professional job is scary but a huge achievement, so best of luck :-)
 
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@VinsCool
Work is stressful enough~
School and College is even more stressful at times.

If you think those things are bad, work is nowhere near that level of stress.
But, that doesn't mean it's not stressful.

Although, I can't work now because of classes; therefor I would probably die from exhaustion.
 
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I haven't read the current replys yet, but meh, I'll say something...

I mean, if you can't drop out, you can either call them and tell them that you never did that, or, you can go through it. Rough? Yes. Can you do it? YES! You are literally a master. Ever since I met you on your discord server, I really enjoyed all these cool litle programs that you wrote. And the codebase, honestly, I wish NTR could have a better codebase. I tried taking a look at it and yuck. You, on the other hand, when I saw your clone, I thought it was cool and amazing.
 
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@MarcusD
You can not just pick your working environment. I can say from my own experience that you get used to it. And in most cases, the staff are always nice.
But I also think it's better if you look for the job yourself, rather than your mom just applying for a job somewhere in your name. Try to talk to her again.
 
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