>Interviews are for selling yourself.

Sales skills are my weakness and as you said, they don't need help turning me down. So best to just avoid situations where sales skills are needed. What are some approaches that don't need it?

>Take a very active role in deciding what career you want.

If you're telling me not to browse job ads, and also not go with recruiters, can you elaborate on "take a very active role"?

If you mean that I should use my network, I'm trying. None of my colleagues want to reply to my message anymore. And my dire financial situation is making it hard to give something to them first.