Seriously, I wanna go begone 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 angery rambling

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I was unemployed for two years largely because job-hunting was so miserable. I was qualified in my field with experience, but like you say, they make it into the most dehumanizing experience possible.

    Death to linkedin, death to resumes, death to cover letters, death to having four successive interviews for a job, and death to corporate HR managers.