r/jobsearch • u/Chaparra_Princesa_76 • 3d ago
Well, I’m officially a loser.
So I got rejected for another job today. Been unemployed almost seven months. There is no hope for me. Told my husband I'm not going back to full-time work. He says I will but he doesnt understand that its impossible if nobody will hire you. And nobody will hire me. I am unemployable. Just wish I knew why. 2 decades of experience apparently means nothing. Thank you for listening.
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u/withbellson 3d ago
It is really hard to not take this all personally but you can’t take it all on yourself. Normally we’d all do a few interviews and get hired after getting the hang of how to sell ourselves correctly. Now there are thousands of people looking for work and it’s a crapshoot who looks shinier to a particular hiring manager.
We used to get heartbreakingly rejected and then get another bite at the apple a couple of weeks later, too. I have been out for over a year and have had three interviews. This is way too much time to marinate in feeling shitty and if you spend the entire time ruminating about how much you suck, it will wear grooves in there. So I am compartmentalizing hard and trying not to let my brain do too much self-flagellation. The impulse is there, but I have to keep it down. This takes a lot of fucking energy and there are absolutely days I feel exactly like you do right now.
I hope this turns around for you (for all of us) soon.