u/thots_and_players69

I was randomly scrolling through Instagram and I saw a lot of cooking rules about burgers so yesterday I went to Walmart got ground beef 80/20 cuz they were out of the lean one hamburger buns and American cheese slices. I really wasn't thinking too much of it from the reels they mostly took the ground beef made them in the round balls and smashed them I just kind of did that in a stainless steel pan. Seasoned both sides while cooking with salt and pepper put a slice of cheese on it toasted the buns and it was legit one of the best I ever ate I can't believe it was that simple. I thought when I smashed the Patty was just going to turn into ground beef and I was going to eat a sloppy joe but it was super easy. It was super juicy and flavorful and the crust was impeccable. I'm not the best at cooking but if you have a lot of cooking experiences it really that easy to make a burger?

So I've been applying for the last 4 months I got laid off my network engineer job roughly 1 years ago since then I've been I got a contract position as a help desk it really doesn't pay much but it's the only immediate thing that saved me from being unemployed I have roughly 8 years of experience as a network engineer and I live in the New York tri state area. In the last 4 months I managed to get 4 companies honestly compared to the interviews I got before getting laid off they went really well. Since the last year I got my ccnp in hopes of getting more interviews and a higher pay rate. I did get one offer but that literally had a much lower salary than my help desk job ( because it was for a non-profit organization) . The other three interviews went really well but I didn't get selected for any of them and I couldn't understand why because I answered every one of their technical questions and I went to look up the answers from the question I remembered and they all matched ChatGBT and Gemini.

The last interview which was the first in almost 2 months I cracked the manager and a technical interview this was the third round of interview with a network admin. The position was for a network administrator role the first thing he asked me was if I would be able to do the job of a network admin if I only was a network engineer throughout my career which really confused me. He proceeded to ask overly simple questions I answered all of them. I thought I was doing really well but then I saw the manager rubbing his eyes and acting disappointed for some reason. I understood I wasn't going to get the offer because in the last three interviews they all said I did great and I got a rejection email the next day. Has anyone ever came across this and is a hard to get interviews nowadays?