A friend told me I was too anxious about minor details in applications (e.g. using the same word twice in a paragraph, how I send them and at what time and to who, etc.), which is true, but I'd like to give a shoutout to the ridiculous work and job market culture that has given me this anxiety in the first place. In a world where I'm told by a school career advisor that changing the font size of my name on a resume could improve my application or everyone insists that there can be zero grammatical errors in a cover letter otherwise it's an automatic rejection (which turned out to be false in at least one case), how the fuck would I not be anxious/paranoid about minor things? I don't know what does or does not matter and just get worried about everything. All this is exhausting and I'm sure millions of competent and hardworking people get culled just because of this kind of shit.