I simply must vent.
I’ve been in an okay-job for a whereas, but it surely’s time to maneuver on. I must earn more cash, and I’ve mainly hit a ceiling right here in my present job. It’s a job I fell into as a means to get by after my layoff in 2020, I did get a kind of sideways transfer, and it’s a higher function and more cash but it surely nonetheless isn’t satisfying and I really feel like I’ve extra potential elsewhere, in a function the place I might higher use my abilities, experience, and information. I’ve survived three rounds of mass layoffs right here however have been making an attempt to get out since earlier than the primary one virtually a yr in the past.
I’ve tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, and tried , AND TRIED to seek out one thing else. I admit to being barely choosy, I’ve made the error earlier than of taking a new job that ended up being worse than the final one so if it’s a enterprise I can’t discover any info on or if there are constant dangerous critiques on glassdoor/certainly, I keep away. I additionally must make a residing wage, and many roles in my state nonetheless pay wages as if it’s 2012. (Literally had a recruiter attain out about a job paying $17/hour….In-n-Out burger pays excessive schoolers greater than that!)
I preserve getting rejected. I’m not making use of for something I’m wildly unqualified for, however I’m making an attempt to make an business shift. I really imagine my abilities are relevant to the issues I’m making use of for. I’ve a good resume. I even write cowl letters when requested for it. I preserve getting handed over on the preliminary software stage. I’ve had a few interviews, but it surely’s been a whereas. I do know I can get nervous and be a little awkward in interviews, however I strive my finest. I had one not too way back, however I felt just like the interviewer was unprepared and uninterested which made it further troublesome, I wasn’t too upset to be handed over although.
Just final week, I noticed a job posted at a firm that a good friend works at and it regarded like a good match. She even let me understand it was on a workforce she lately moved to. When I utilized, it mentioned it had been posted that day. I obtained an e mail to schedule a time with a recruiter, so I did that decision on Tuesday. She talked to me for less than 5 minutes and didn’t even ask me any actual questions on my abilities or something, she actually rushed by way of and mentioned they have been already conducting interviews, however she’d see in the event that they have been open to extra and to textual content her the following day if I hadn’t heard again. I did so and obtained instructed they weren’t interviewing anymore. I don’t know what occurred right here, however I’m miffed. The job additionally obtained reposted yesterday. I do know I don’t have all of the info, and something might have occurred, but it surely nonetheless makes me really feel dangerous and questioning what I did improper.
I’m simply so fed up. I can’t even get a likelihood to get forward in my profession, I’ve tried so laborious to seek out a job I’d like and would do properly at however preserve getting caught in mediocrity. Absolutely nobody can inform me I haven’t tried laborious sufficient. I’m so uninterested in being handed over for the whole lot. It’s actually destroying my morale and spirit. The above story is precisely what occurred simply as I felt some confidence coming again. It’s additionally laborious when buddies or acquaintances who imply properly ask the way it’s going, and I really feel like such a loser letting them now that I nonetheless can’t discover something. I hate to sound like a whiner, however I’m simply actually struggling, and I do know there are doubtless others right here in a related boat.
