I’m frustrated, and I know I am just a drop in the bucket of millions of people being frustrated that the goal posts keep moving.
I’m in my early 20s, I did everything right. I got a degree, worked 3 jobs while doing it so I’m very lucky to currently have no debt. I graduated Cum Laude, but because I’ve had to work the last 4.5 years I couldn’t network. So I have a long work history, loyal at that, been at one of my jobs for nearly 5 years, but because I’m a nobody who doesn’t have miraculous connections, I’m stuck. I have a spread sheet going on 46 jobs, I’ve applied to, and those are only the ones I’ve started tracking in the last 2-3 weeks after 3 previous months of applying.
Like yes I would love a remote job doing something in my field, one because it makes it so much easier to try and move out of my state because COL is atrocious here and I’ve been planning to move for years but then everything went up in price and nobody anywhere is hiring it feels like.
It’s tiring and frustrating because frankly I want to work, I want to learn, I want to do all these things but I have no ways to network, no time usually either. I’m so tired of working 3 jobs, I got the degree WHILE working 3 jobs. I know I have work ethic, I know I’m willing to learn to do almost any job at this point, but haven’t caught a break yet.
I feel like I’ve worked so hard to be the first in my family to get a degree, the first to not be in debt, the first to do many things successfully and it’s amounted to nothing. I had to figure out everything on my own, and I did it, I got the degree and built a decent experience report for myself for my age I would say. All that hard work and for what? To be stuck in a state I hate because I can’t get employment elsewhere or even remote, in a town I’ve long outgrown, working over full time hours between the jobs with very little to show for it all.
I hope for everyone things get better but I can’t say I’m optimistic.