u/Maximum_Night4860

After 6 months without work, I finally got a job offer 🥹 After about 130 job applications, 15/16 interviews, and 6 months without a paycheck and an unreal amount of stress, I was offered a great job today at a very nice company

I wanted to share this because I know people say this a lot, but for anyone else struggling with unemployment or feeling stuck in their job hunt, please don't give up - honestly, it's the only way forward, and you'll get there in the end

If you were able to get a job before, you can definitely do it again, no matter how hard things are right now. Sometimes we all just need a bit of luck to come at the right time ☺

Wishing everyone lots of luck in finding the careers and roles they want!

When I was in high school in the late 2010s, I could send out around 8-15 applications and usually manage to get at least one offer without too much hassle after about 6 weeks of searching. Now I'm struggling to find literally anything in my field, or even outside my field, after almost a year and a half of searching. I applied to Target recently and got rejected after about 10 days. And that's not even counting the ridiculous number of fake postings I keep seeing on LinkedIn/ZipRecruiter/company career pages, because apparently things weren't depressing enough already, with AI hanging over everyone's heads. It feels like we're getting hit from every direction right now.

Thank God I have some savings and a small bit of side income, otherwise I'd be completely screwed. I honestly don't know how people with no job at all are surviving through all this, and I don't know when things are supposed to start feeling even a little less insane, especially since it's not just the job market that feels broken these days. Like, man, I just want to work and live a decent, simple life. I'm not trying to become some tech bro making $200k or anything. All I can say is: don't give up, don't keep blaming yourself, and step away for a bit when you need to. You're still a human being, not a machine.