can't even make it to a 3rd interview when more than qualified for the jobs now... 5 years ago i could apply to 5 jobs and have 3 offers in weeks, now i apply to 50 jobs and get 2 interviews, neither of which make it past the 2nd round because now they have 1000 people applying per job
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About half the people working at the bottom level of my local library system (for less that $20/hr) have a Master's, all have a Bachelor's. It took someone I know 6 months to get through their hiring process to work part time....
I got laid off in march this year. sent out about 600 apps in a month to literally anything qualified for. i got 3 interviews, only for positions i was way overqualified for, and didnt make it through the first round for any of them. i lucked the fuck out with getting reassigned to a position in a diff department, otherwise I'd be living with my parent after losing my home.
There is no job market at the current moment; it simply does not exist. 
Capitalism bends, but it doesn't break
Anyway, here are 10 wars, unprecedented ecosystem collapse, genocide, the resurgence of fascism, the end of free trade, the end of dollar hegemony, mismanaged pandemics, housing shortage, unsustainable debt, and the anti-christ has probably been born somewhere by now.
I was born around thirty years ago
The anti-christ is a lesbian woman. This is progress. 
What took you so long? Smh
I've been busy loving women, but FYI I've decided to give the 
my evil blessing
go and get organized and have gay sex!
hmmm, im listening
It's unsettling, but it's also normal.
Finally, science (LLM slop) has distilled neoliberal thought to its most basic essence
LLM writing lol
emdashes spotted
lol yeah lots of copium there
Terrible haiku attempts.
I'm not reading the linkedin poetry slam somebody summarize for me pls
"Capitalism crashing every few years is good actually", but mixed with some feelgood cope words
People will never find a stable job again until the contradictions are resolved. Being unemployed chronically will evolve from a “moral failure” to common-hood.
Soon you’ll have nothing to lose but your chains.
I always had nothing to lose but my chains
what's with all these short sentences
OP says in the article he posts thorough analyses on patreon because detailed articles get shadowbanned by medium
detailed articles get shadowbanned by medium
God that fills me with hate
Flashbacks to when i proselytized for socialism on /r/politics and /r/conspiracy and started to notice lengthy effort posts get 0 response because woops shadow deleted
soon when they shadow delete you what if they make it so your post also gets upvotes and comments from AI to make it seem like it wasn't deleted
it won't affect me until i'm permanently banned from hexbear and the cool parts of lemmy and im forced back to reddit to live like a hog in its trough but yes that would be truly hellish thank you
goddamn
I held my past job title for 12-15 years, and had to abandon the postion and industry entirely to find something after 2 years.
Death to Amerilkkka
I had a job interview today. First one in at least a month now. Below my skillset by a pretty good margin, but the pay is good and they still have work from home for now. Guy yawned through the whole interview, completely tuned out the second I started answering any of his questions, and then ran the interview over by 30 minutes. By the end he said I'd hear back from the recruiter with next steps before the end of the day. Well, no next steps, no surprise.
I really dread the thought of having to look for work again if the company I'm at currently ends up folding.
Yeah Im currently working close to my dreamjob and I KNOW I will NEVER get another job this chill and cool . Mind you im sure this job is gonna exist for another 2-3 years but beyond that it gets really murky.
Yeah, I'm kind of in a similar position here. I enjoy the work, I like my team, and I expect whatever job I'll have next is going to be strictly worse.
It sucks cause im almost certain I wont have my current job past 2028 and similar to you whatever I get wont be even close to as good.
It sucks living in a collapsing society.