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Does anybody know how to make money without a job or a job for 14

Feedback on new job please

Advice please.

Leaving public sector job of 5 years to relocate and start a new private sector role in Birmingham.

I'm getting an offish feeling but don't know if I'm just over-reacting as a result of a workplace bullying experience in my last role (with a local authority).

I was contacted about this new job by manager A, we had an informal discussion and he gave me the application form. I submitted it and was interviewed by Manager B. Manager B then offered me the job and I was passed onto HR.

The HR Manager is giving me a bad gut feeling. Initially she kept asking for documentation that I had already submitted. Following this she decided that I had been given the wrong application form and sent me a supplementary section to complete, which I did and sent it. Shortly after she booked in an Induction meeting for me to undertake with her, and to my surprise it was another interview for the post I had already been offered. Around the same time I also received a generic email about a recruitment freeze, I queried this, she initially said 'sorry, that wasn't meant for you' but then proceeded to gaslight me with 'well you must have seen it was just a generic email'. Most recently she asked for the application form to be completed again as the original one was the wrong one (despite the supplementary form I completed, which covered the difference between the two forms). Something about the way she speaks to me and about others is concerning me.

My husband and I are querying whether I should proceed or whether I should find something else.

I graduated last year and I’ve been working for this company since graduation, but now that it’s been a year there’s several aspects of this company that consistently remind me that I need to get out of here for my own sanity :( so I’ve been consistently job hunting for about a few weeks now and I found out my university is having a career fair in September, so I plan on attending as an alumni, but they require us to submit our resumes to RSVP which will go into a pool that every company attending will see, including the one i currently work for. Is it smart to go ahead and submit it anyway? I don’t want to miss out on any career opportunities but I also don’t want them to know im job hunting

I (F27) just got diagnosed with ADHD and in the report from the psychologists I’m at the 99th percentile for sorting puzzles in my age group, don’t know what good that is to me considering my working memory and everything else is pretty crap, is there such a thing as a puzzle tester? Trying to find a job id be good at and this new info has only made me realize I’m going to die working jobs I hate and my (in)abilities are just getting me by.

I don’t have the report yet so I don’t remember the actual name of the category I tested really well in but when we went through it they said they’d never seen anyone get that far in those areas as I did… so yay I guess?

TIA

I just started my new job last week. Being that it’s stuff I already know how to do, I’m not training or onboarding anymore and I’m in the field. Am I crazy that I’ve already started to apply to part-time weekend positions (my full-time job is Monday-Friday) or do we just live in an expensive ass world😂 I live alone and am single and I’ve never wanted to get married for the dual income until now…

Interviewed for a job last Tuesday in which the director seemed to love me, she even said "you seen really really nice and you fit all the qualifications" and that I'd hear back by the end of the week.

End of the week rolls around and crickets, so the following Monday I reached out to the HR person and asked if a decision was made yet. She said, "they are still interviewing candidates and we will let you know."

Still haven't heard back yet so I emailed HR again and said, "I received another offer but haven't accepted it yet, (there is no actual offer, but I do have another interview today), but I am more interested in your organization, do you know when the hiring will conclude?" She replied immediately and said she'd call the hiring manager right away to find out if they picked someone 🤭

In today's market you really do need to make it seem like you're a hot commodity

Totally normal email address (first initial, last name) @yahoo.com

But Yahoo... Does it scream "this candidate is out of touch with the times", really old, or lacking professionalism, or just get flagged as spam? I've had the email since the dawn of the Internet, but have a number of Gmail accounts I could also use, but are clogged with spam at the moment.

Let me know your take. I've been sending a number of applications out for jobs I'm literally a perfect fit for, but can't even get a call back. My resume is mint. I've had a few peers look at it and when they actually talk to me are impressed by the achievements.

Since we can't trust the government to accurately report... It has got to be really bad. I've never seen it like this out there.

I graduated college in 2024. I had three internships and was lucky enough to land an entry level job. I don't want to go too much into it but I had to quit after 1 year. It was genuinely horrible for my physical and mental health. People were getting laid off and it was in a small town so there weren't really other jobs I could do. It was clear the gig was done. I quit in late 2025 and since then I haven't been able to rejoin my industry. I'm working in customer service. I used to average 4 interviews a month but now I haven't had any since July. Am I cooked, being underemployed for a year now? What do I even do, where do I go?

Any advice is welcome.

How are you doing during these job hunting times? I personally am feeling disheartened and a bit jealous but also grateful for other things. How are you?

I’ve been unemployed and actively looking for a job for about a month now. Let me tell you, it’s terrible. For context, I only apply for jobs which I have the competence for or simply similar to what I’ve been doing the past years. I work in administration.

First of all, the only thing keeping me up is I do get interviews almost every week (which is not that glorious because I apply to a lot of jobs to maximize my chances). The process? Each company make me do at least 2 interviews. First one is always by phone and about 30-45 minutes and then if they’re interested, I get an in person meeting which is always an hour. They all asking the same questions. All expecting almost the same thing and despite the good feedback after the interviews, I’m never the one selected.

There was this company i applied to, they « liked » my profile so much after the first interview, THEY OFFERED me two positions. Just to finally get a call saying they’ll move forward with someone else. This was the most frustrating one. Because you’re telling me YOU offered me something I did not apply for and somehow I still wasn’t good enough?? Alright.

I’m frustrated because I know it’s not a competence issue. Or maybe it is and no one’s telling me lol?? Im just getting tired of interviews. Tired of repeating myself. Tired of even making efforts. It got to a point where I go to the interview and I don’t even expect to get call for a good news. I’m becoming numb. This is the job market.

I don’t even know what to think anymore. My last interview (in person after I did a first one otp), was so short I didn’t even know if it was a good or bad sign.
I was just happy they cut it short because if I’m not getting accepted, might as well not make me waste another hour of my life.

I’ve been in a pretty strange job-search situation lately.

My wife and I sold our duplex back in February. She never liked living up north, so she finally convinced me to start looking for work in the South. The new owner let us rent the place for a few extra months so the kids could finish the school year, and eventually I moved my wife, kids, pets, and basically our whole life about 1,200 miles away.

I’ve been staying with my mom for almost two months while continuing the job search.

I’ve also had some ridiculous interview processes over the years. One MSP put me through five interviews. Earlier this year, I had a one-hour programming interview followed by a 2.5-hour panel interview.

So naturally, I assumed this latest opportunity would be the same.

Instead, I interviewed with a large government contractor and had… one interview.

Thirty minutes.

Just me and the hiring manager.

It was actually a really comfortable conversation. We talked about my experience, the environment, some technical challenges they’re dealing with, and the kind of work I’d be doing. I walked away thinking, “Okay, that went well. I guess the hard panel interview is next.”

Nope.

The recruiter called me a week later with a verbal offer.

The position itself is a regular full-time employee role, not a contract gig, although it involves government work and apparently requires a Public Trust determination.

And I know this probably sounds ridiculous, but the fact that the process was so easy is what has me second-guessing everything.

I’ve spent years getting conditioned to think that a “real” technical job requires three interviews, a panel, a technical assessment, a personality test, a blood sacrifice, and possibly combat with another applicant in the parking lot.

Now I’m eagerly waiting for the written offer and trying to convince myself that sometimes a hiring manager can just talk to someone for 30 minutes, decide they know their stuff, and hire them.

Anyone else ever have a surprisingly short interview process for a job that turned out to be completely legitimate?

Edit: Got the offer and accepted!