Vent your rage and or employment woes. I am having a bad time looking for a job as an employed keyboard-jockie. Hate my current job can’t find another.
The employment process sucks, the ghosting sucks, the endless automations and inhuman interactions just to find a job. The quantification of every part of the job process is bonkers. Reading all of this fluffy nondescript job profiles is a job in and of itself
The meta-game of having to “optimize” your resume to be read by an A.I. or to having to use an A.I. for the application itself just sucks. All this work for an entry to middle level job that barely covers your bills is just soul draining.
All these employers want you to have 2-5 years experience and a masters degree for a starter position. It’s all just terrible.
It feels like “finding a job” is a skill in and of itself in a way it should not be. “Job hunting” is also a deeply solo thing, even using your professional and/or social network pits you against the “The Market”. It sucks so much.
“The Market” is so bad at everything. We could all more easily organize work and finding work if we all weren’t alienated independent nodes all forced into battle. Yet another reason planning and democratic processes are better than this weird tyranny of “the free market”.
Jump in this thread and be mad with me. Big mad.
I’ve spent most of the last… since 2017 putting in applications. I’ve managed to land contracts but that’s about it, until the job I’m at now which is so soul sucking I’m just quitting. I can’t do it anymore.
I’ve put in literally thousands of applications, for basically anything I’m qualified for (I have a STEM degree), and gotten only a handful of interest from any of it. Almost all of that was poorly paid or just really shit jobs (or contracts - those I took, and that’s what I’m probably going back to because at least I don’t have to deal with the same petty and dumb assholes for years…)
It’s so disheartening that I just spent the last 6 months minimal living and squirreling away my paychecks so I can spend a decent chunk of time minimal living and looking for something good, rather than good enough. I expect I’ll need to take a BS job before I find that, though..