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Nothing makes me feel more useless or hopeless than job hunting (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Love to see a bunch of shit I'm not qualified for and then a bunch of things that don't begin to cover my expenses and feel bad about myself and my circumstances and cry and eventually put one application for a custodian position with the county because what the fuck else will I do

I know if I went back to school and finished a degree it would give me a leg up but I just can't fucking handle the workload of work and school anymore, I feel like such a lazy piece of shit but I just don't have it in me anymore to keep this shit up

Dealing with a lot of dark thoughts today. Very dark.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theres something very dark and twisted in telling people how high youll jump for them in order to survive. I remember being unemployed last year and doing the dumbest most degrading shit for job interviews.

One literally had me do a math test, which I did poorly at, before being asked to do it again. Then they asked me what I wanted to do for a career, which I told them some generic answer until they kept asking and got a real answer, which I told them ideally Id be a professional musician. Which they didnt like. Go figure.

Like normalize just trying to survive. Come on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I interviewed for a job years ago that would have involved setting / stocking shelves for a grocery chain, distinctly remember the guy visibly losing interest when I said I hadn't researched the companies mission and core values. Like oh wow I really want to slurp up whatever bullshit the marketing team decided to put up on their website, suck off me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

distinctly remember the guy visibly losing interest when I said I hadn't researched the companies mission and core values.

oh my god, what kind of dork even cares about that shit?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Internally, no one. Externally, also no one. It is entirely in the boundary of preliminary hires and preliminary large scale clients, and nothing else

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

When I was in high school, I was turned down for a shelf-stocking position because I didn't have any prior work experience. Of course I didn't? I was a child?