Crossposted from r/GetEmployed because I’m really feeling down.
I feel like I’m losing hope and getting so anxious with my job search. I’ve been working as a strategy consultant for 2 years for a pretty big consulting firm, but the culture and long hours have been really getting to me. My company is also potentially considering layoffs, so I’ve been looking to exit. But, God damn, how utterly terrible it has been to get a decent job.
The job search has been so hard and so depressing and so anxiety-inducing. I’ve been searching since beginning of February and I think I’ve submitted 60 applications so far. I have a Bachelor’s in Economics, 4 years experience as a Financial Analyst for the Federal Government, and 2 years as a consultant. I mainly apply for remote program management or business / finance analyst positions and I’m careful to seek out positions that I meet the requirements for, but I almost always either get rejected or never hear back from nearly all of them. There’s some positions / companies that I’m reeeaaally interested in — places that rhyme with Picrosoft, FinstaFart, and Dryft — which makes the silence or rejection all the more depressing. I’ve been invited for interviews at some other companies about 5 times, and I generally do well in the interviews — I’ve even had some interviewees rave about how impressed they were with me.
I received 2 job offers today, and I feel like I should be grateful and just take one, but the offers just seem bad. The first offer is from a local energy company, but they offered me $15K less than I asked for because they want me to get a CPA licence on my own dime, and the work requires driving almost 4 hours round-trip to the office most days. The second offer is with my local state government ; it’s $20K less than I make now, but guaranteed 40-hour weeks, fully remote, and generally secure. However, the medical benefits are seriously awful, I think I would end up paying so much out of pocket for healthcare on top of that massive paycut.
I’m just losing so much hope, and the 2 offers I did get somehow make me more depressed. I’m kind of angry too, because I feel like I have good experience and I’m not even given a chance. Is it seriously that hard to get an $80K remote job with 40-hour weeks and decent benefits ? Or am I being delusional ? I don’t even know how to feel anymore.