u/Samuel_Seyum

Client went quiet. Six weeks, four polite emails, zero response.

I wasn't going to take them to small claims court over it. So I just accepted the loss and got obsessed with making sure it never happened again.

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My older Brother just finished college and he applied for job after job and got rejected countless times. He has already moved out but since he only has a part time job, my parents had to pay for many of his expenses for the better part of a year. As we are already a lower class family, this put a tremendous strain on us as a family.

I could notice him getting really frustrated as the months went on and at one point he even considered to give up and get a low paying job that didn't have anything to do with his qualifications but over time he got really methodical about how he applied. I even built a tool (I am a computer science student myself) that rewrites resumes to fit job descriptions.

With that tool and his new skills, he got a job within 4 weeks. My take away is to treat the application process like a skill in its self to be learned. if you want that, tool drop a comment and I'll DM you the link. Watching him do it makes me feel like I am better prepared for it myself.

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