And let's face it: Deli/fast food work is HARD! You are always busy, have to be very efficient, work well under stress, remember lots of small stuff, learn fast (with often less than stellar tutors) and handle different people and conflict well. Some of our difficult children may thrive on it, but for most it can be extremely hard.
We (luckily, I guess) have so much less fast food joints, that no difficult child is ever able to get a job at them. difficult children around here tend to work on cleaning business. As a janitor you have much more time to think and often have to do only one thing at a time. And more complicated cleaning jobs go to college and uni students, who can mange them as do the fast food jobs.
I guess your son feels a need to be heard how hard it is. But maybe reminiscing your own first days and weeks in new jobs for him, and remembering to tell how hard it first felt, could help him consider it as a normal experience in the new job and not just him being incapable? Or reminding him how hard it was to start in the new school and find class rooms etc. and how it did work out in the end? (Well, if it did.)
