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Just got rejected from a summer job because I “didn’t have enough experience”

You know, summer jobs, the jobs young people often take as one of their first job to get a bit of experience before starting a full-time adult job? Well, apparently they wanted someone with “a bit more experience”. It just kinda sucks. It was designated as a job for students who are still in college, so kind of like a paid internship almost. It was perfectly related to my field of study, but, alas, “experience”. Just feeling a bit beat up. I know the whole “you need more experience” can be a vicious cycle, and I know about the “entry level jobs, requires 5 years of experience a degree” type of bullshit, but this is just a new low. A summer job of only a couple months at most, designated for students in college, requires “more experience”…


You know, summer jobs, the jobs young people often take as one of their first job to get a bit of experience before starting a full-time adult job? Well, apparently they wanted someone with “a bit more experience”.

It just kinda sucks. It was designated as a job for students who are still in college, so kind of like a paid internship almost. It was perfectly related to my field of study, but, alas, “experience”.

Just feeling a bit beat up. I know the whole “you need more experience” can be a vicious cycle, and I know about the “entry level jobs, requires 5 years of experience a degree” type of bullshit, but this is just a new low. A summer job of only a couple months at most, designated for students in college, requires “more experience”…

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