Searching for a new job is demoralizing. I've spent probably hundreds of hours over the past year or so looking for a new job. It's the same broken record though with no results. What am I doing wrong? The constant daily rejection is eating at my soul. What little self-worth I have left can probably only withstand a few dozen more "Easy Apply"/rejection cycles.
I have a graduate degree. I have a history of full employment. I have a job now that I hate that desperately want to escape before I am probably fired. I took out massive amounts of student loans. I lived in a basement apartment for 9 years, I didn't go out, I didn't spend money, and I paid them off. I thought I had done what everyone had told me to do. So why is it so hard now?
Applying for jobs is time wasted. You are submitting your application among a stack of dozens or hundreds of resumes. Your odds aren' t just bad. You don't stand a chance. But you continue to hit "Apply" because it only takes a couple clicks. Maybe this will be the resume that catches their eye. But then no one calls.
Ever. And you are left worrying how you will feed your family. How you will build long term security for your family. How you will dig yourself out of a hole.
No one will do it for you. You have to save yourself. But millions of other people are shoulder to shoulder with you. Your deserted island is suddenly full where no rules apply.
History books with pictures of "Will Work for Food" pop up in your head. The real fear will begin once this job search begins when I currently have no job. This is just the rejection and self-pity stage sprinkled with some anticipatory fear. Wait until things get very real.
Until then, I continue to dig up dirt in the yard I don't have in the house I don't own looking for that ever elusive diamond of a new job.
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