I'm not sure why I keep losing jobs

Hi guys. 27m here, and I’ve been on a spiral the past few years. My entire adult life I’ve worked mostly temp jobs and jobs that keep me away from having to socialize too much, but I’ve tried to step away from that recently. Anyway:

I had a job at a clothing factory that was good. Paid well, work was alright, schedule was alright. But due to poor financial decision making I let car kinda fall apart and I kept being late, enough so that I was essentially told one day I was late that I had until exactly 15 minutes after my shift would start to be in. Well, I didn’t make it, and despite my friend and I being less than 5 minutes away I told them not to bother and went home. I didn’t even try.

I passed through a few jobs since then, mostly temp jobs that I kept losing because of a lack of work ethic and coming in more visibly high than I’d like to admit (a whole other problem I’m wrestling with). I then had a good job as a janitor, paid really well with decent hours and it was a job I could even have headphones at which was perfect for me cause I hate not having music or something like it. But due to more poor financial decisions and honestly just being irresponsible I didn’t lost my car for driving without my license and registration. I then lost my license for 3 months, losing another good jobs. I weasled by part time at a grocery store for a while but that wans’t enough, particularly because I couldn’t keep up on rent and got kicked out (again bringing up weed, I was buying that before doing my math and not having rent money. Stoopid.) I had to move back in with my family, which is where I’m at now, and I had a really nice gig going at a bar. I was making friends there, REALLY good money especially since I’m not paying rent. But despite being told it wouldn’t happen when I got hired on, I got fired today without receiving much negative feedback beforehand. So now I”m back to a temp job.

I don’t understand why I can’t get my work ethic on lock down. I keep ruining good things. I kicked weed to prepare for the bar job, but lo and behold almost everyone was smoking vapes on the job and I inevitably fell back into it: I suppose it probably did contribute to my poor performance.

But every job I work, I start off being super diligent and reliable for the first week or two and start trailing off. At that clothing job, I had a friend that was super jaded about the place despite how good it was and really got me caring about the pettiest things. And I got super jaded, I suppose, leading me to not fighting to keep that clothing factory job better or to complain alot at my following jobs. There is one repeating thing though, it’s that I keep being let go without warning: Despite being told my performance is fine. It’s frustrating and my financial situation keeps getting worse because I keep losing jobs. Particularly this last job is particularly hurtful.

If it matters, I’m pretty socially awkward. I’m friendly, but I don’t communicate well all the time and relating to people is hard. I can sometimes unintentionally make people uncomfortable with my nervous habits and skittish nature. I knew that wouldn’t help me at all. Thank you for reading.

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