Dateline 12-16-2016

What a worthless week, all my doing of course but worthless nonetheless. I spent the first half of the week applying for jobs to which all but one company responded with any interest. Unfortunately, said company responded with a note that they were interested in one area of my resume only to then inform me that they aren't currently firing the one role that they felt I would fit.

This creates a three-day deficit of time and effort that I won't get back and won't be able to use for other application. In the past, putting effort into your job hunt paid off because you could at least use the documentation you either created or updated for multiple queries. You'd have to update your resume once, and come up with a generic cover letter for those rare entry level jobs that required that much information, but once you had those you could fire off dozens of applications in a day. 

Nope, not anymore. Now you have to spend hours jumping through customized hoops just to get someone to even look at your resume and god forbid you stumble even the slightest on one these automated tests meant to screen out the riffraff. Screw up on any step and you are out, without a single human to turn to to plead your case.  

Keep in mind that I am not complaining about the efforts to find a career job, no, this happening when I apply for jobs that claim to be ideal for students and stay at home moms. These are supposed to be entry level jobs that shouldn't be as hard to obtain.

Then again, when I think about it, I'm not really all that bothered by the effort they ask of their recruits, what bothers me is that there is no human interaction until you pass such a gauntlet. I would much rather a human looks at my resume and tell me out the gate that I do not qualify and let it stop there, or even have that human on my side for when I miss the target score by one point, that might be able to pull a string or two if they saw value that the test does not take into account.

So yeah, I'm still a little down about the job status which has made it hard to focus on my other efforts in life. Though I'm annoyed and rattled by my return to the unstable life of task-based employment, there is potential for me to make up the income I lost along with my last crappy job, I have just yet to settle into the routine, the way I see it working in my head.

Part of the problems was that I was so far out of my head yesterday, which was supposed to be the day that I go back to work on my school but was so high from the pot brownie that I ate the night before. I haven't been that high in my life but don't get me wrong, we're just talking medical marijuana here so this overdose just means that I slept really really well for two days and now feel like the reset button has been pressed.

I plan to make up for the last two days of slacking by buckling down this weekend and finally starting my latest assignments as I'm hoping to start my new daily routine this Monday that involves a one-hour job hunt first thing in the morning, followed by a few hours of earning money through this task-based gig that I recently landed and as soon as I meet the daily wage from my past job, I will move back on to class. 

This should hold me over until I find a steady job but we'll see what happens and as always, I'll keep you posted when/if something does. Until then...

Talk to you tomorrow,

The Wicker Breaker