Is there any way to efficiently apply to YC jobs other than write a cheesy cover letter to founders? I feel like most of them are either ghosting me or not even seeing the letter, and it takes away a lot of my time. I get that in a desparate job market, you gotta do what you gotta do, but I don't see the need to write a long letter that founders won't even read.
Idk if I'm doing something wrong, but I have been feeling more and more insecure the more I interact with my (23m) mother. Ever since my grandmother passed away, I've pretty much had to carry the whole family on my back, which I don't mind since everyone is mostly grateful (except my mother).
Timeline
June 2024: Get a decently paying software engineering job, but my mother complains about it because it's remote and it's in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. However, it's six figures and I'm happy, my father's happy, and my brother's happy. She's not.
July 2024-December 2024: Worked hard at my job to support all my assignments while being constantly called during work by my mother. Every time she calls it's to either rant that my salary is too low or that I am poor or that I should get a better job. Either way, it ruins my morale, eventually coming to the point where she tells me I should just quit because I'll never amount to anything. Come December, layoffs happen, and she is:
January 2025-March 2025: Constantly bashed by my mother for being unemployed. Constantly asking me why I'm not applying to X company and getting X offer when I literally applied and they ghosted me. Come March 2025, I get an offer, but they had to push it out to May 2025. I hide it for as long as possible until the background check comes back in the mail (Forgot to pick it up). She starts yelling about how low the salary is (she is unemployed at this time and has nothing better to do). I move out to my own place.
August 2025: I'm living in my own place, applying to jobs for a better future when all of a sudden I get an offer for a large research firm. It paid decently well, so I was excited to tell the whole family. My father and brother are happy because they have money now, but my mother always has to find a way to ruin it. She:
Going in, my morale was already low, and come May 2026, idk why it took so long, but I was laid off again.
I now have a startup which I was trying to delay trying to tell my mother about forever as I've learned to not tell her anything, and she finds out somehow anyways, and has to shit on the party again, saying it's going to collapse. It's currently gotten a couple million in funding, but she's trying to rip away every cent, even though I'm not the CEO, and I don't even hold that much equity stake either.
Not sure what to do now because I'm not happy with my life. Since when AI came out, my mother wouldn't shut up about how it was going to take over the world and how it was going to take over everyone's jobs and now that it has, it feels hopeless. She pushed (forced) me to study computer science and pay for the degree on my own. I just paid off my grandmother's hospital bills and just paid off my college debt and I have all these expectations piled on me to be perfect while at the same time fail.
Unsure if other Asian parents are the same way or even parents in general, but it's depressing.
So I won this hackathon in like September of 2023 or something and this company wanted to hire me. little did I know the internship was unpaid, and I was required 20 hours of unpaid labor, communicating through discord, no requirements, design docs, or Jira boards. they just kept throwing tasks at me with no context and any time they weren't happy with the work, they'd just make me do it again. After completing three projects e2e, I decided fuggit. Either pay me or you can't afford employees. They then threatened to defame me, in which I had already had receipts. I logged those receipts and left the discord server. They were eventually bought out by some medium sized edtech startup after Google investment. Was what I did a jerk move?
Will not expose company as they are not active so don't ask.
I mean... come on man. This isn't necessary 😭