I only hit fast apply to the first 3 jobs i saw on indeed because I have a fucking job I just want unemployment to pay me to sit around all summer like is my god given right (if they don't want school employees between terms to get money... maybe tell me Im not eligible!) but the state I live in has this dumb fucked to death work search requirement of three work related contacts per week or else I don't get paid
Anyway, one of them was for a private chef gig in a small suburb of the city i work in. They listed fuckin $14-17 per hour as the wage. To be a private chef running this client's kitchen. What??? I make $17.50 now to cook 3 dishes for 40-50 people and sit on my phone all day when they're not eating my food. If some bourgeois prick wants me to be their personal chef man like I think that's a $24/hr job minimum compared to what i have now
Anyway, fuck my job, fuck new jobs, fuck the unemployment office, can't wait to get paid for the week of nothing i did last week!
yeah i started applying for jobs 8 months before i was laid off last year and couldn't find anything that was comparable in pay/benefits. Pay is markedly worse across the board unless you're in some AI bullshit company it seems
Six months after being laid off, my employment checks were about to run out, and I got my first job offer after hundreds of applications. It was in an industry I hate and it was nearly a 50% pay cut, but I felt forced to take it because it was either that or blow all my savings while hoping I could find something better. I've been casually applying for jobs since then, but no bites. I make less now than I did six years ago with the same title. It's truly the most dogshit job market I've ever suffered through
wow, that's almost the exact same thing as me. My unemployment was running out after about 7 months when someone I worked with at the prior company demanded that the new place he was working at hire me. And they tried to undercut me to pay me less than I was making almost 6 years ago but I pushed back and actually got an extra $5k over what I was previously making, even though I started the salary negotiation at $50k above what I had been making. I only got the job because my co-worker is the top engineer and he said they absolutely must hire me. It was shocking because I had no idea he even liked me nor had any clue what I did at the previous company.
If he hadn't done that I fear I'd have ended up in some dead-end job making what I made back in 2019 when I just moved here and had no idea what people should get paid to do the things I do which is substantially less money.
But also I now work in an industry I absolutely despise, though at least it is not related to the military or killing people so I keep telling myself that, and that makes the bitterness more bearable. I also can't just up and leave because I can't burn the guy who stuck his neck out for me. So I'm doing the best I can in a job I have no business doing and am just trying to figure it out day by day.
Every few weeks I get another email response from one of the probably 500 companies I applied to telling me they're going to move on with another candidate. Most of them don't even sound familiar to me at all.