Resume writing when you never have energy to do anything

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The career services people at my school gave me all sorts of advice for writing a resume "like include an interests section" or "put your community services in" or whatever. But I don't have any of that stuff because for the past 14 years (since finishing high school) I have gone home and watched TV or played video games or lounged around the house, or occasionally when I have a lot of energy maybe read a book. They don't seem to get the toll that being autistic at school and at work takes on a person, especially law school like I am in now. Yet, they will not relent on me adding more sections that show my "personality" even though as of late I don't have any because I never have the energy. What they think doesn't really matter, but I don't want to blow my shot at this internship that should basically be a sure thing (I have 2 former employers who love me and are good friends with the person who runs the place so I can't see them turning me down for this internship) but you never know... so how much do you think people actually care about sections like that compared to the actual work and education sections that should all look really solid for me.

Congrats on law school!

And yeah, I think these career services people are being dogmatic and stuck-in-the-mud. It’s like they’re gotten stuck in a place in which they are giving advice which is not really wrong but not really right either.

You have hit the nail on the head.. Of course a resume is mainly about education and work experience.

If career services has some damn template that insists on ‘interests,’ keep it brief and plain vanilla, most of all brief. Maybe something like ‘reading, movies, travel’ (that is, if you want to travel even if you haven’t had time or energy with school)

At job interviews, they often ask , what do you do in your spare time?

Some websites claim, the reason why they ask is they want to know you are social.

Community service sounds good. You can reference something you did a long time ago

Anyways I have zero hobbies, so I just told one interviewer, cooking

Something without too many misconception

And hard to verify






Even though I don't know how to cook







Since I am not an interviewer, I don't know how much they care what your hobbies are

The world contains a lot of interviewers

Some care more than others