Job hunting sucks. Let me just start with that.
I'm working a crappy minimum wage job while I look for other alternatives. It's not enough to keep the bills paid (Minimum in Florida right now is $11), especially at the part-time hours they keep giving me, so I'm sending out applications.
You're expected to respond so fast to these interview requests. One I got from a local gas station wanted me to respond within 24 hours. Fine. I responded, did the two interviews, and was told “You'll hear back this afternoon” after the second.
Ghosted.
A paid copywriting test, completed and submitted long before the 7-day turnaround they requested.
Ghosted. And they still owe me money.
But no one wants to work anymore, right? Maybe no one wants to work for 'managers' that insist on treating their employees like either children or a bad Tinder date.
I'm thoroughly depressed, burned out as hell and want to give up. The temptation to shuffle off this mortal coil is always in the back of my mind. I won't, because I have people that depend on me, but every shift moves my personal Doomsday Clock one tick closer to the apocalypse.
I have no idea why I'm posting this. Mostly a rant, I guess, but I'm just so gods-damned tired.