r/jobs

I guarantee you that this is the worst job market of the 21st century, and it’s not even close. Is the level of implosion on par with 2008 or 2009? Absolutely not. But trying to actually get hired for a job? Mission impossible. Much, much harder than it has ever been at any point this century. For those currently employed and haven’t had to search for a new job in years it is hard to realize, but once you are thrown into a situation where you need a job, you will get very rudely awakened.

8 hours of working means 2 hours preparing/ driving, if we wanna sleep for 8 hours, which means only 4 hours for personal matters.

If we're gonna live like this for the rest of our lives, day by day sold.Which means companies have bought our life w money.

This is not just about employees; how productive are you gonna expect from an exhausted employee?

Why dont just give us enough rest time so everybody gets what they want?

Here is my idea: we could have work days and rest days on a rotating basis. I prefer Mon, Wed, Fri to be working days, and Tue, Thu, Sat and Sun to be rest days. In this way, we could have enough rest and work on our personal matters before continuing to work, without cutting the consecutive days off(Sat-Sun).

Or: having a shift system by splitting into morning shift and night(afternoon) shift, rather than making tons of ppl siting in the office for the whole day with little tasks. Such as 9 to 1 and 1 to 5 shifts.

Anyway, these are just my personal thoughts; let me know about anything I overlooked, or if there are any better ideas

One of the most annoying things about complaining about a job is when someone inevitably says, "Just get another job."

Oh, okay. Why didn't I think of that?

The problem isn't even finding a job opening. It's the absolute circus of the modern application process.

You see a physical sign that says “INQUIRE WITHIN.” So you think, great, I’ll go inside and talk to a human being.

Nope. You get pointed straight to a website.

• First, you have to create an account with a password you'll never use again.
• Then, you upload your résumé.
• Then the system says, "Great! Now manually enter your entire employment history." The exact employment history that is already right there on the résumé you just uploaded five seconds ago.
• Then comes a lengthy, soul-crushing questionnaire.
• Finally, you submit everything.

And congratulations! You still haven't reached a human being. Now you have to survive an AI resume-screening bot before an actual person even considers looking at your application.

Multiply that entire process by however many jobs you're actually applying for.

When people tell me to "just get another job," they make it sound like you can just walk in, shake hands, and start working like it's 1985.

It’s not. It’s searching listings, creating endless accounts, filling out redundant forms, dodging automated rejections, getting ghosted, and doing the whole damn thing all over again.

It has been a long 10 months of applying and getting rejected but I’m happy to say today that I accepted a new job offer. I am transitioning from retail management to admin manufacturing. I applied for 53 positions. Out of that I had one intake, one interview, one job offer. I knew if I could get to the interview process I could be a serious contender. The role I accepted is exactly what I was looking for. The pay and the growth potential is great. I am looking forward to this new chapter!! :)

Essentially, I was hired by a political canvassing company from California to work in Wisconsin, HOWEVER, the lady who interviewed me and the job application I clicked and applied to didn't mention that past a certain point in my stay in Wisconsin, I'd be moved elsewhere to either Nebraska OR Iowa midway through the last month of election season.

I don't feel comfortable working in either Nebraska or Iowa. As such, I want to instead get reassigned to either California or Nevada instead (where I have family and/or friends in those states), but if I can't get that at all, I'd want to be laid off in a way that still allows me to get UI benefits, but I don't know how.

Would anyone have any advice or recommendations what to do here?

I recently interviewed for a PNC teller lead position after the branch manager suggested I apply. I did the interview. I was selected, and then a recruiter called me and told me that my salary would be 48k with other benefits, mind you. I have almost no experience in banking, but around 3 years of experience in management and cash handling. I looked up the salary range in my area. It came up to around 50K to 52k on average. So I asked him if this is negotiable, and he said you can try, and I negotiated with the recruiter to match up to 50k, and he straight out denied it for 50 and said he can try, but that’s not possible. 49K is the average in your area. So I asked him to at least match that, to which he said that okay, it is possible, and I will talk to the senior and will get back to you & next thing i know he ghosted me for two days. He replied to me after two days that another candidate has popped up, and they are going to interview him on Tuesday, and he will get back to me after that. I just want to understand what I did wrong for negotiating. If they couldn’t do 49, I would have happily taken 48k. I even sent him an email after that. Okay, if I accept the initial offer, will you guys still be doing the interview, and then he said I have let the door open for other candidates they will interview.

EDIT- I want to thank you everyone for your input. I want to mention 2 things that i forgot to mention in the post.

1. I work at dollar tree as an assistant manager which pays me 50k including atleast 10 hours of OT every week. Which i told them in the interview.
2. I have the offer of stepping up as a manager.

I am sorry for not giving this information before but I want to know if with this knowledge will your opinion change to the situation now?

Only reason i want to switch is because i am not happy with my current situation. I made an irrational decision to negotiate over a $1000. But in my head i was talking about taking a cut.

I am a 22yo female, have 2 years of customer service experience at the same location, and am currently lead cashier.

What are some higher paying positions I could look for that don’t require a degree? I’ve been thinking about being a waitress for the potential tips, but if it doesn’t make much more than a cashiers job I don’t want to apply. I’m kind of lost on where to look so I just want some direction. I’m good with my job, I just wish it paid more or had more room for growth.

I graduated 14 months ago, I work part time for two different organisations, one in heritage (but it is literally 2 days a months on average) and the other in a remote admin role that doesn't pay very well. I earn enough to pay my bills and live, albeit it is tight. I've been trying to find a full time role in heritage since graduating, I've had a handful of interviews and not been successful once, in about January I stopped only trying to get something in heritage/culture/tourism and started just applying to everything I could. I'm not sure the exact amount of jobs I've applied to, but it's well over 500 now, and I'm just so depressed over it. I'd say I have a decent CV with good experience, and yet nothing.

I genuinely don't know how much longer I can keep at this! I can't even get a job doing something more menial because I don't have experience working in retail or hospitality (other than one summer when I was a teen, but that's so many years ago now I wouldn't even be able to get a reference).

I know it's like this for everyone at the moment, but, I'm so close to just giving up, I hate my current situation, I have no savings and can't afford to do anything to make life a bit less miserable. I want to work full time.

What I'm actually trying to say is, genuinely how do I get full time work? My CV consists of four years administration experience, a year museum experience and volunteering with heritage properties. I alter my CV depending on what field it's on (I've got one that focuses on customer service, one on heritage etc). I write cover letters and I think I interview well? At least that is what I've been told when I've been able to ask for feedback. The feedback I get is usually just something along the lines of "You were lovely, but we had someone who had more experience". I'm really unsure what I can be doing at this point that I'm not already doing? I'm just really worried that I'm missing something huge. Any advice would be appreciated.