[ SECRET POST #3814 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3814 ⌋

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Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

How do you stop yourself from getting excited when you apply for a job you really want? All I have done is send in my application and that was only a few hours ago and my mind won't stop thinking about what a great opportunity this would be for me, but I know that it is unlikely that I will hear back from. I'm not trying to be pessimistic about it, just realistic.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

Hate to break it, but you're being pessimistic.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but like... I really don't think so? It's just the reality of the job search in this day and age that you're not even going to hear back from a lot of places you apply to. Assuming you're going to get a specific job is just unrealistic.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

My past experience with this same thing happening over and over again would disagree.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

SA
In response to these other comments, call back if you don't hear something. Take some extra initiative for fucks sake. Then you wouldn't be comforting yourself with the idea that this pessimism isn't an issue with you it rather ~realism~.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

You can do all of that but no amount of hustling or positive energy is going to change the basic structural reality for Chrissake. Sometimes things are the way they are for reasons other than laziness. There's not actually a magical spell you can cast for everything to go well.

The better solution is that, instead of applying for one job and counting on getting it, you apply for 20 and one of them comes through. But there is just no actual way to guarantee that a company is going to want to pursue hiring you, let alone actually make the decision to hire you. It is fundamentally outside of your power.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

This.^

I wish we could all just unanimously begin referring to AYRT as the Bootstrap Troll, the way I do in my head whenever they pop up.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

nayt but as someone who has been applying for jobs I'm well-qualified for for six months and only landed a single interview (never heard back)... sounds more like realism.

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing you can really do, I think, except try to stay as balanced and calm about it as possible. Do other things and try not to think about it.

Re: Jobs

[morieris]

I dunno....if you're that excited, do some research about the company. Be prepared if they want to interview you!

Re: Jobs

[(Anonymous)]

So a job I initially didn't think I was getting because they took forever to get back to me got back to me for a last interview. They said they'll let me know soon but considering the last wait I don't know how accurate that'll be.

Now I'm not sure either way but I just really hope they get back to me soon because I hate having this shit on my mind.

I just hate this whole process. Sigh.