u/clowntownbrown

Idgaf my lizard brain will always like neon lights and big booms in the sky

I promise I’m posting this with the utmost sincerity.

When I was visiting Chicago in March, I saw some mid gays being affectionate on the subway, and it almost brought a tear to my eye. Seeing gay couples in the daylight is still a novelty to me, so that was factor as well. I was also drunk bc it was St Patty’s day, but that’s irrelevant.

Idk when straight people say their looks are keeping them single everyone just tells them to go to Walmart or whatever to see all the uglies in relationships, but gay people aren’t afforded that luxury.

It doesn’t help that most of our first experiences with seeing gay men in media is usually porn, which is probably damaging.

Idk it gives me hope that a mid like me can find love once I move to a big city 🥺💕

I know the topic of boomer parents being unaware of the realities of the modern job market is done to death, but even my reasonably educated and tuned in parents just cant grasp it.

When trying to console my sister and I about graduating without a job in a few weeks, they always go on and on about these "temp agencies" and "temp office jobs" they had when they graduated. They just can't understand that these simply don't exist anymore, or where they could have gone.

They think you can "just ask for feedback" when you get these automatic rejections after a Hirevue "interview." Cute.

They both do understand that walking into a business and handing them your resume is a thing of the past, but they are still under the assumption that some level of humanity is involved. For example, last week my mother told me to "make a list of 5-10 good companies, and call them to ask what they look for in candidates." As if HR departments have public phone numbers these days lol.

Last summer my father (who is borderline c-suite in a rather niche yet influential industry) tried to nepo me into an open internship position with his company. After I polished up my resume and applied, he then learned that a candidate had actually been selected weeks ago. He truly thought I was lying about ghost jobs this whole time.

They truly believe in their heart of hearts that the job market is simply supposed to work in favor of hardworking and educated new grads. It's a rather romantic ideal, it would be great if it were true. The market has been cooked for my entire college career, so I'm a bit desensitized to it, but drilling the reality into their heads is like telling a small child they probably won't be a ballerina or astronaut.