Unemployment - Tumblr Posts
Me: Well, that was officialy my last day of classes before I get my degree and graduate. Man, time moves quickly doesn't it?
My dad who came to pick me up: yeah yeah, welcome to unemployment, can you mow the lawn tomorow?
Me: *snort of laughter* yeah dad, I'll mow the lawn, no worries
sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions
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how is it fair that i have to apply for 20+ jobs over 5 days and write individualised cover keys and employers can ask stupid questions that can be answered by reading my CV which they asked me to attach. i have to put in a lot of time, effort, and emotional energy applying to jobs. and then employers don’t even have to respond to me. i’m lucky to hear back that i didn’t get the job. it’s not fair that i am not being hired for entry level dishwashing position because i “don’t have enough experience” when i WORKED IN A KITCHEN for 2.5 years and therefore WASHED DISHES FOR 2.5 MOTHERFUCKING YEARS. and the worst part. the most grating part. is that these sleezeball business owning mitherfuckers are STILL complaining that young people are lazy and don’t want to work.
i am feeling big 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
“Biding Time Underwater”
Acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas ..
Was studying always this hard?
If you expect that you’d get motivation by reading, you’re in a wrong place dude! Go watch some motivational channel, whatsoever!
You Know growing up, I had a lot of ambition. Like i woulf become a big F*cking engineer and all of that shit. But then life started throwing exams on my head. At some point I used to like these exams and shit. Then these boards came in the frame and then these entrance exams... *Sigh
Now let’s face this! I hate studying. No I hate exams. Like literally they have f*ucked the peace out of my life. I wakeup and looking at the books, I regret the decisions of the my life. Like what in the world I snorted to take these decisons.
Whatever Kaira let’s keep courage and STUDY MF!!!
THE CONCLUSION OF THIS BLOG IS GO STUDY, YOU HAVE NO EXAMS OR WHAT.
Day 13: Comic A day in the life of a job seeker. (I should stop drawing in pen so I can erase things when I screw up... But I won't.)
Literally me right now, unemployed and descending into madness.
Yeah, give me "Fucking Yikes" for 800, Alex
It's a hellish time to be unemployed.
"AI" has enshittified already-terrible ATS (applicant tracking system) software, making it even harder to get your resume seen by a human.
Text-generated AI spam applications means that new jobs are being posted for 2 days before being closed because they're being flooded with hundreds of fake applicants.
HALF of hiring managers admit they think it's acceptable to post fake jobs, and two fifths say they've done it in the past year.
So it's no surprise that nearly 4 months after being laid off, my job hunt is Not Going Well. And today I broke 3 digits on job applications!
My job hunt in 2022 was hellish - 127 job applications and 17 companies interviewed with to get my last job. And yet, I'd give just about anything to go back to THAT job landscape and not this enshittified nightmare fuel hellscape.
I did not get the long term care facility job because of the limitations of my bus schedule.
I have a job interview at a local restaurant to do cleaning and dishwashing on Friday morning. On the one hand, I really need it. Otoh, this gets me no closer to my goal of getting into a certification program to become a nursing assistant, nor does it help with my goal of moving to the hour away city. All that could wait until after January, but the contract the restaurant is offering is indefinite. This means that unless they fire me, I can't quit and still be eligible for unemployment. Which means it's likely that taking the restaurant job closes doors for me for who knows how long.
I don't have a real choice though. None of the jobs I'm qualified for in the hour away city are going to be good with my bus schedule unless I do part time and part time isn't going to be enough.
For a year and four months I worked as an in home caregiver for people with severe disabilities. There were parts of my job I liked a lot and parts that were very frustrating, but overall it was unsustainable because I had to commute for an hour to the city and then during the day I'd have to go from one home to another. I was not paid for that time. So I was earning a part time salary but I was gone from home 60+ hours a week. I was utterly exhausted.
I found a job just 3km away from home, working at a long term care facility for elderly people who are still fairly autonomous. Reader, it was a shitshow. This has been independently verified; the government agency that evaluates these places failed the facility.
Anyway, I was going to hang in there because they had promised to put me through a nursing assistant certification. At the end of my 30 trial period they fired me. Mind you they never trained me for any part of the job. When I asked questions I got answers ranging from sarcastic to nasty. And no one ever gave me any feedback. So yeah I'm sure I fcked things up but I'm also not a mind-reader and a heads up would have helped. Anyway. Because I quit the previous job and worked only thirty days I'm ineligible for unemployment aid. You have to have worked at least 91 days after quitting a job.
It's been two weeks. I have lost track of how many jobs I have applied for. I have three kids. One has a birthday in November, then there's Christmas, and then another has a birthday in January. I'm stressing so hard. I had a job interview today at a long term care facility for dependent elderly people but it's in the hour-away city and the bus schedule doesn't fit with their shifts. The managing nurse is going to see if she can make it work when she does the schedules for November and December over the weekend. I find out on Monday.
The temp agency called with a job in a wood mill. I took it. My first day is tomorrow, then it's a full week M-F. They may decide to renew after that.
This is a relief because unlike the restaurant job there's no expectation I'll stay long term. My biggest worry is that a 40 hour week of manual labor may be more than my body can handle. If I can handle it, I'll stick with this job as long as it lasts or until January 30.
Why January 30? Because I'm eligible for unemployment aid then, and my counselor wants to get me on track for the nursing assistant certification program. I had the best conversation with her about it today. Plus! Omg you guys. Plus ! She was totally appalled at how my social worker has been (not) handling my attempts to move to the hour away city. And she called someone she knows in the office that kept referring me back to my same (not very helpful) social worker. And she talked to the person who agreed my application should get priority, so now I have a big form to fill out and mail to the person in the office and *we may finally be able to move* which would open up *so many things*.
For a year and four months I worked as an in home caregiver for people with severe disabilities. There were parts of my job I liked a lot and parts that were very frustrating, but overall it was unsustainable because I had to commute for an hour to the city and then during the day I'd have to go from one home to another. I was not paid for that time. So I was earning a part time salary but I was gone from home 60+ hours a week. I was utterly exhausted.
I found a job just 3km away from home, working at a long term care facility for elderly people who are still fairly autonomous. Reader, it was a shitshow. This has been independently verified; the government agency that evaluates these places failed the facility.
Anyway, I was going to hang in there because they had promised to put me through a nursing assistant certification. At the end of my 30 trial period they fired me. Mind you they never trained me for any part of the job. When I asked questions I got answers ranging from sarcastic to nasty. And no one ever gave me any feedback. So yeah I'm sure I fcked things up but I'm also not a mind-reader and a heads up would have helped. Anyway. Because I quit the previous job and worked only thirty days I'm ineligible for unemployment aid. You have to have worked at least 91 days after quitting a job.
It's been two weeks. I have lost track of how many jobs I have applied for. I have three kids. One has a birthday in November, then there's Christmas, and then another has a birthday in January. I'm stressing so hard. I had a job interview today at a long term care facility for dependent elderly people but it's in the hour-away city and the bus schedule doesn't fit with their shifts. The managing nurse is going to see if she can make it work when she does the schedules for November and December over the weekend. I find out on Monday.
I worked for six days at the wood mill. It was physically brutal and when they offered to renew my contract for another week I declined. I talked to the manager about my husband taking my place and it looked good for a couple of days. Then the temp agency let us know they really wanted a woman to balance their team's genders so it was a no go.
I'm not doing well. It was too hard. It hurt. Like, every part of my body with nasty back spasms thrown in for good measure. But now we're back to neither of us working.
For a year and four months I worked as an in home caregiver for people with severe disabilities. There were parts of my job I liked a lot and parts that were very frustrating, but overall it was unsustainable because I had to commute for an hour to the city and then during the day I'd have to go from one home to another. I was not paid for that time. So I was earning a part time salary but I was gone from home 60+ hours a week. I was utterly exhausted.
I found a job just 3km away from home, working at a long term care facility for elderly people who are still fairly autonomous. Reader, it was a shitshow. This has been independently verified; the government agency that evaluates these places failed the facility.
Anyway, I was going to hang in there because they had promised to put me through a nursing assistant certification. At the end of my 30 trial period they fired me. Mind you they never trained me for any part of the job. When I asked questions I got answers ranging from sarcastic to nasty. And no one ever gave me any feedback. So yeah I'm sure I fcked things up but I'm also not a mind-reader and a heads up would have helped. Anyway. Because I quit the previous job and worked only thirty days I'm ineligible for unemployment aid. You have to have worked at least 91 days after quitting a job.
It's been two weeks. I have lost track of how many jobs I have applied for. I have three kids. One has a birthday in November, then there's Christmas, and then another has a birthday in January. I'm stressing so hard. I had a job interview today at a long term care facility for dependent elderly people but it's in the hour-away city and the bus schedule doesn't fit with their shifts. The managing nurse is going to see if she can make it work when she does the schedules for November and December over the weekend. I find out on Monday.