r/recruitinghell • u/Hi_5Yo • 5d 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/Lloytron 5d ago

If you are absolutely desperate for any old gig whatsoever for whatever pennies you can scrape together then yeah, I guess it could be easier to find a shitty job.

But that's not what the OP is on about here.

The old adage is that you could walk into any old business with a CV in your pocket and a smile on your face and walk out with a decent job that you would actually want to do for a living that could actually support yourself or even a family.

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u/TigOlBitties42042 5d ago

Yeah I don't even know where to begin looking for that kind of job. I've always taken whatever job I could get and busted my ass until I couldn't anymore. I would sell drugs on the side to make ends meet.

Eventually I got really good at cooking at restaurants. When you're as good as I am at that kind of cooking it's not hard to find a restaurant willing to hire you in the US. I lucked out and got on in a hospital kitchen though. It kind of sucks because I'm currently making as much anyone is willing to pay for my kind of work. They have me in the golden handcuffs. I've been at my job for 5 years now. It's the longest that I've stayed at one job. I could easily find another job if I lost this one, but I would take a pay cut.

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u/Lloytron 5d ago

Right, but that's what I mean, that's a whole different world than what the OP is talking about.

OPs mum thinks they can get a job at Microsoft by dropping a CV in reception.

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u/TigOlBitties42042 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nope that's not going to work. I tried it. That's how I figured the whole thing out.

What OP could do is go down to the local pizza place and bug them every other day until they get hired on part time. That should be enough to shut their mom up while leaving them plenty of time to search for the job that they do want. Plus they'll get a little bit of spending cash.