I don’t know who needs to hear this, but job hunting is a nightmare. I got fired, and now all my time and energy is sucked into the black hole that is applying for jobs. It’s not just sending a resume and hoping for the best—no, no. Apparently, applying for a job means becoming their unpaid employee for the entire process.
Almost every application? Some ridiculous assessment or test. Oh, you want three articles written, or a full presentation, and that’s just to consider my application? Let’s not forget the four rounds of interviews—each over an hour long—because apparently one interview doesn’t give them enough time to suck out your soul.
On top of that, there’s the constant tailoring of resumes, answering endless, mind-numbing application questions, and pouring out your energy to a company that’s probably going to ghost you. The sheer amount of unpaid, exhausting work I’ve done just to maybe get a job is unreal.
And the worst part? No one even warns you about this. It’s like we’re all supposed to be okay with burning ourselves out just to apply. It’s maddening. I’ve lost track of the hours I’ve spent, and for what? To be treated like an inconvenience half the time.