Recently was told I'm being laid off. Friday is my last day at this company. I've been a temp here for two and a half years, patiently and obediently waiting. Being promised constantly that I would be hired on eventually. Pretty sure my job was safe because there will always be work but I guess I should have known when they were wanting me to train others to do my work “so [I would] have a team to help you.” No, it's to have a team to replace me. They need an entire team to do the work that I did alone for more than a year.
What really sucks is the work that has to go into applying for jobs these days. I know why; I completed all course work for a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology, I just had a bit of a mental break down before I could complete the internship (and the school didn't help at all, no support). Online applications, algorithms that sort resumes before a person even looks at them, blah blah blah.
I hate that I have to tweak my resume for every single job listing I decide to apply to, I hate that every job listing now requires 2-5+ years of experience in highly specialized skills and if not for that, I'd qualify for any of those jobs. I hate that a job I'd otherwise qualify for has been merged with a job I don't.
I really don't want to go through all of this and I also don't want to go through being a temp that's never hired anymore.
This is just kind of a vent. I'm tired of work. Not because I don't want to work, but because I don't want to work so much for people who aren't going to appreciate it. Or me. I'm tired of all the BS that goes into finding a job these days that makes it harder and harder to find anything. I'm just tired.