I've had surgery that made my quality of life much better and has improved my health by a lot.
So understandably I have a fairly decent gap in my resume because of it, the surgery alone forced me to be on bedrest for almost 2 weeks and the recovery time is still ongoing (almost a year later).
I took this time to get further education and am getting my exams done next week, so I will be a bit overqualified for a lot of the jobs that I'm applying to currently.
It seems like jobs in my area are either all part time, require only the education I already had or require the diploma that I am currently getting.
Half of the time I get no response or just copy paste rejection e-mails. I have applied for one job that kept getting reposted for almost a month, a total of 5 times! But every time I kept getting the same copy paste rejection even though I was more than qualified for the position. I can sadly only assume that the surgery I needed is what's getting in my way.
In this past year I have applied to hundreds of jobs haven't gotten invited to a single interview. It got to the point that I was taking actual coaching courses to better present my resume and even that didn't help.
I'm just starting to get really frustrated and depressed, especially since currently everyone seems to complain so much about no one wanting to work. I want to work! I just want a full time job that pays a decent wage so I can finally start saving up for my future. But it seems like if you aren't already in a job while jobhunting you just have no chance to find anything at all.