I have been unemployed since age 18 (now 20). I have applied constantly for jobs since then and have had no success, while all my friends have and tbh it's starting to feel personal. One week last year I applied to 35 jobs in one day (i counted) and not a single one even told me I didn't have the job. This is humiliating and stressful and it just makes me feel depressed

I just wanted to rant. I hate this fucking hamster wheel of society we live in. I am a good worker and no one will fucking hire me

What can I do to even get a job in this fuckin hellscape

  • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    It's incredibly depressing to try and sell yourself as a commodity, and further depressing to be rejected as though you are an unsuitable one.

    The important thing through all of it is to remember that your worth as a person largely lies outside of your 'commodifiable' self

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      what also depresses me is it doesn't have to be this way. Like 90% of the workforce (i'm being hyperbolic but go with me on this) in the us are performing fake ass demeaning, inconsequential jobs that are basically designed to make rich people feel superior in a lot of cases.

      We absolutely could subsidize the education of our people and put them to work doing something more meaningful to their community than the dumb shit we have tons of people doing if we organized our society and economy around improving it and not around profit for a teensy minority of capialists.

      So many people feel so aimless and burned out doing shit that doesn't benefit anyone but the owners of their company and it literally doesn't have to be that way. shit's whack.

      • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Like 90% of the workforce (i’m being hyperbolic but go with me on this)

        I work white collar, you don't have to sell me on this lmao. I and most all of the coworkers I know maybe 'work' a grand total of 20 hours in any given week, outside of a few hectic points during the year where we actually work a full 40. But that happens maybe 4 weeks a year. Being able to use that time to instead better myself, my residence, bond more with friends and such, help out community...