Vent your rage and or employment woes. I am having a bad time looking for a job as an employed keyboard-jockie. Hate my current job can’t find another.
The employment process sucks, the ghosting sucks, the endless automations and inhuman interactions just to find a job. The quantification of every part of the job process is bonkers. Reading all of this fluffy nondescript job profiles is a job in and of itself
The meta-game of having to “optimize” your resume to be read by an A.I. or to having to use an A.I. for the application itself just sucks. All this work for an entry to middle level job that barely covers your bills is just soul draining.
All these employers want you to have 2-5 years experience and a masters degree for a starter position. It’s all just terrible.
It feels like “finding a job” is a skill in and of itself in a way it should not be. “Job hunting” is also a deeply solo thing, even using your professional and/or social network pits you against the “The Market”. It sucks so much.
“The Market” is so bad at everything. We could all more easily organize work and finding work if we all weren’t alienated independent nodes all forced into battle. Yet another reason planning and democratic processes are better than this weird tyranny of “the free market”.
Jump in this thread and be mad with me. Big mad.
There’s an entire field of employment with the sole purpose of making people looking for a job do a bunch of performative bullshit and dance and sing on command.
I always imagine what the world would be like if the people who’s job was to manufacture the bullshit jobs like you described would be like if they actually did something with their skills. Literally anything other than what they are doing
. This whole world is so wack man.
I usually spend years between jobs, being very rural, trans and poor doesn’t help me, since name change outs me and mysteriously I get offers rejected at the last moment upon background check. Right now I’m doing hell retail at the only LGBTQIA friendly local retailer and one of those rater jobs and am clocking in and much over 50 hrs a week, though making far under 15k a year. Like 1 day of the rater job pays more than a week at the hell retail job (they always make me close too), but my aunt and sister say it looks nicer on my resume than the nebulous rater job that ‘no one understands what you’re doing’. I’m also getting to the point where ageism is a factor and I’m past too old for gradschool in my major, at least in the US.
