Job searching…
When you hear people talk about it you really don’t know how they feel about it or what their thoughts are about job searching until you are the one who is job searching.
I graduated school in June 2020 when the whole covid thing started and people were freaking out and taking mass amounts of toilet paper. Now my plans were before the whole covid thing happened was that I would graduate give myself the summer off and then come September I would start applying and hopefully start working. Then covid happened and halted all my plans by a lot.
Well it’s now September 2021 and covid is still here and well it is still awful and I am still very broke. Now my plan was the same as last year I would apply in September all around places. The problem I have is well putting myself and my family in danger.
Before I knew covid was getting bad again. I started going on indeed and LinkedIn to see if I could start finding some jobs and what made things harder is I don’t drive and well I would have to rely on transits although I never took transit before because well I have no life. I would spend hours a day reading through hundreds of jobs. Either they were really really far, had really bad reviews when it came to working there and the biggest problem of all was that you needed some sort of degree.
Even now when I read jobs that I thought hey this is perfect for me right now or yeah I am able to do this it always said that I needed some degree…. Like I truly didn’t know that I needed a degree to talk to people over the phone for hours on end my bad.
But let me tell you. Job searching is boring. I mean it is absolutely boring. Not to mention overwhelming. All the reading and all the requirements and the tasks they say you need to do when you do the job.
After job searching, I am extremely tired and ready to go down for a 2-hour nap. However when you finally actually find a job that possibly suits you. You send in the resume and then you have to wait. I hate waiting I am impatient. As of right now, I have only applied for two jobs I denied the first one and well the second one hasn’t reached out to me yet.
Don’t even get me started with finding proper remote jobs. Especially big companies like Amazon or Apple or any other big company. It’s great that they are hiring so many people that’s great that people are getting jobs but it seems that they don’t wanna hire people from Canada. They will ask people from Germany and France which are great places but sadly I do not live there.
So it’s back to smaller companies and scrolling through pages of the internet looking for a job.
Did I happen to mention resumes? I learned how to make up in like grade ten and well I lost it and well I had to make a new one and of course on previous jobs, it’s Fiverr as a freelance writer, Shygirlvibes my blog site and then just the word writer. That’s good if I wanna apply for a writing job but applying for something that is not writing and that is all I have… well I mean I can say that I have some customer service skills working with Fiverr as a freelancer because I technically work for myself and some people I have to deal with…..stressful and don’t even get me started on the number of times getting rejected from a job like I said I have only been rejected to one so far but that number will change
The overall topic about this blog post is that being an adult of some sort SUCKS. I say that about pretty much everything. I say depression sucks anxiety sucks etc. Job searching will always be the most boring tired mentally draining thing that you can do. But I guess in the long run it’s worth it when you find the job you love.
