Seriously, I wanna go 
every time I read some carrer growth opportunity bullshit. It’s either a job or it isn’t.
I really despise anything remotely related to linkedin or whatever kind of creature dwells in that place. Can everyone do this stuff? Like, is this really how everyone gets a job? I can’t deal with all this pretending, everything requires having a linkedin profile, but not only that, you gotta sell yourself somehow. And I don’t even use social media.
Well, I have a bachelor’s degree from a good University, I’m good at what I do, here’s a portfolio. But no, I have to prove I deserve to be selected as a producer of wealth for my potential boss by pretending to be someone else. Can’t we all just be practical about this shit? I have to keep trying to put myself into boxes and trying to fit with a sort of profile that I just can’t and don’t know why.
Am I autistic? Like, do I go get a diagnosis and maybe that will help? Do I go do something on my own? Then I have to figure out what an then sell it, and I’m bad at that. I don’t know what to do and I’m tired of trying. (I was almost crying while writing this paragraph).
Honestly though, I just wanted to rant and this is one of the few places I feel safer in. Thanks for reading my 
rambling
In the past couple years they’ve pivoted hard to LLMs, and it really makes you wonder whether they value anything on the human side.
Fortunately I live in an area (somewhere between the Appalachians and the Rockies) where living expenses are reasonably affordable, and minimum-wage jobs are constantly hiring. I don’t know what I’d do if I was still stuck on the “affluent career” bandwagon. My vocation is undermining capitalism now, and it turns out networking with radicals is remarkably fulfilling.
What’s your degree/experience in?
HR is just a department. They detest work much like anybody else. And most of their job is down to shifting work around. For applications, there’s 2 options: either you enter your shit into the system, or they do. Guess which they choose. After that, either the computer makes a decision, or they do, guess which one they choose.
Somebody has to enter all the info into the computer. That can either be you, or it can be HR. Somebody has to make decisions about the stuff that has entered the computer and that can either be HR, or the computer that you put your shit into.
HR is hostile to employees, because it works for your employer. But HR is also hostile to your employer, because they work for them and also hate that fact, much like anybody else. Left unchecked, any given HR department will design the most atrocious application process possible, because it means less work for them, and then blame it on young people, the job market, trump, biden, what have you, anything that gets whoever employs them not to question why they can’t find any people to do the job.
What I don’t understand is why so many business owners trust them night unconditionally. They’re materially in the same role as any other folks that work for you that do not get this privilege. Best of my guesses is they’re the job cops and get treated as such through osmosis.
I’m a Design graduate, it was a very complete bachelor’s on 3 main areas: graphic design, product design (stuff like furniture, ergonomics in tools and utensils even user interaction) and interior design. I had even hands on experience making actual wood furniture with wood working tools and everything, printing and crafting an actual book, all kinds of cool stuff. I live in Brazil though, and this was all free public education, although gated by an exam. But I have 0 working experience, since I didn’t do any internship before graduating, and getting a job in this area has been quite difficult.
That’s really cool! I hope life throws a few unconventional yet challenging opportunities your way.