How do you pretend to care, comrades? Work sucks but I need to survive capitalism. Got a couple interviews tomorrow for administrative jobs I might or might not be qualified for, and am not particularly thrilled about. My interview skills are pretty rusty, and I'm increasingly bad at being inauthentic, including pretending to be excited about most jobs I'm applying for.
Backstory is, I fucked up trying to please my parents and got degrees in a field I no longer (kinda never did) want to work in. The only work I'm passionate about is songwriting/singing* but that's not going to pay the bills right now. So I'm in this weird limbo looking for low-stakes jobs that will pay enough but not sap my creative energy. M-F, 9-5, tell me exactly what to do, I do it, then I clock out. So, how do I pretend to be excited about that?
*I'd rather not tell employers I'm a songwriter looking for side work – I don't need them trying to hear the antiwork/anti-status quo themes I write about.