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 was recently in the same boat. The worst aspect was dealing with the private hiring agencies that infest southern Ontario like ticks. Just trying to get the name of the company you were applying to was like pulling teeth. There was one in particular that a recruiter was trying hard to get me to sign on to. She said it was a small-office job for a supplier to a car manufacturer, after I told her I was looking for a small-office many-hats job that had no corporate head office elsewhere. Turns out she was lying, the job would have been for fucking Toyota Tsusho.
I finally lucked out with a small business that was looking for someone with exactly my weird niche skillsets that are rare in combination. I am under no illusions that I was anything but very very very lucky with regards to timing.