Hey you, business owners
Are you so blinded by short term profits that you can’t make a long term recruiting plan? Or have you given up on the future already and are just trying to live the life before it’s all over? Why are you asking me for 1 year of experience and mastery of 8 different technologies on your entry level pre-employment listing? I’ve already got a degree, does that mean anything to you? Are degrees useless now? I’m willing to take any salary at this point just to get out of my room and do something with my life
Why do they call it a job market? A job is the only real source of income for the majority of the world population, are we trading people’s lives now? Why is it that if I stay unemployed I’m treated as if I have an expired sticker on my face?
And you, state
Are you so pathetic to publish a document with all sorts of legal jargon for just one position? One position that will get you a 6 page list of candidates just so they can all move to the capital twice to pass your oral and written exams? For one position? Are you not ashamed in the slightest?
I’m so tired of you all
That’s my weakness, I don’t have a strong personality
I’ve always followed school expecting everything to be ready in the end, but the moment I graduated the education ministry just tosses me out into the jungle
There’s no plan at all, the state just produces graduates and stops there, to hell with anything else
It’s a predatory system, it doesn’t matter if you went to school, you just need to be a liar and talker
You deserve it as much as anyone else.
The bragging is only for the interview, if that helps. Once you’ve got the job, you can be you again.
In fact, once you’ve got the job you can be stubborn about being you and insisting that even if you’re not the loud braggart-type, your contribution is as valuable as the loud braggarts’.
(You may find, in the job, that once you advocate for different approaches to working/speaking/etc, and encourage other people to be themselves, those others who also feel the imposter syndrome will thank you and see you as a leader (e.g. encouraging colleagues to use written messages or turn off their cameras, etc, in virtual meetings if it makes them more comfortable). The problem is getting the job in the first place, still. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been through it.)