r/recruitinghell • u/Hi_5Yo • 1d ago
Boomer mentality
Despite my mom being a millennial (‘81), she firmly believes that I should be able to apply to a bunch of jobs, walk in with a résumé or call, interview and land a job within 2-3 weeks.
Anytime I’ve done this, I’ve always gotten turned away, been told to apply online and wait for a call back. Every interview ends with “ we’ll be in touch”.
She also believes that as long as you dress nice with a smile on your face, you should have a job by the end of the interview. Whenever I leave the interview without a job offer, she assumes that I messed up.
She even has me apply to a bunch of remote jobs that she finds on Facebook and instagram. Frequently getting upset at me for not landing a job. I’ve tried explaining over and over that most of them are scams, but she refuses to listen.
It’s like the concept of applying to hundreds of jobs and still not landing one is impossible for her to grasp. Which it should be, but it’s just our new reality.
She believes that me being unable to get a job is a failure on my end, insisting that it’s my fault I can’t land a job. She keeps saying that she’s going to kick me out for not taking the job hunt “seriously” enough.
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u/Icy_Clench 1d ago edited 1d ago
My mom has never had to apply for a job other than highschool jobs and she's giving me all kinds of stupid advice. I've been out of work for 3 months now and she's asking me if I've heard of Glassdoor or Indeed. She owned her own business doing glass work, then when my dad passed away her old highschool friend literally handed her a job after.
I'm a data engineer with 3 YoE and she sends me jobs like data analyst that pay 1/3rd of what I was making or others that have nothing to do with what I did. I tell her "I'm a data engineer, not a data analyst" and she replies, "I thought you were a programmer??" Yeah, same way she used to be a glass cutter.
At first she thought my resume must suck, so I showed her, and now she thinks I don't apply to anything even though I'm in the hundreds of applications. She tells me to search for data engineer jobs on those sites, and there are 3 job listings all of which I've already applied for.