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Home » Latest Posts » What Searching for a Job Is Really Like
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What Searching for a Job Is Really Like

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Austin Manchester June 9, 2016

Hey, look at you—you just graduated (congrats)! Now it’s time to find a job (bummer). Sure, some of your fellow recent alumni already had jobs lined up, but those people are secretly robots designed to steal jobs from the debt-ridden college grads. Or so I’ve heard. Right now, you gotta focus on going all in on your job search. Not sure what finding a job will be like? It won’t be fun, that’s for sure.

When You Send out 30 Apps and Feel Great about Your Chances

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When the application asks you to list “Reason for Leaving”

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When you feel discriminated against because of something on your resume

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when you start dreaming of making dat money

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When Weeks go by and you still haven’t heard back and your optimism is fading

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when you’re starting to lose hope

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when you see an email from an employer

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when the email turns out to be a rejection email, because of course

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When you parents ask you how the job search is going

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When you start to go crazy because it’s been three months and still nada

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when you eventually have to go back to your part-time summer job because your career search is going no where

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when you just DGAF about your part-time job

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When you get so bored at home and you have no idea what you’re doing anymore

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When all your friends are getting jobs and the highlight of your day is watching Maury

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When you get asked if you’ve found a job yet

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when you get an email from an employer…and they want to interview you

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when you walk in to the office and see all the other candidates

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when you’re asked a question you’re not prepared for

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When you’re told “We’ll get back to you shortly”

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when you get asked how your interview went

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When you’re told they went with a more qualified candidate

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When you’re asked to come back for a second interview but you can’t believe your good fortune

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When you think you actually may have possibly (who knows?) aced the interview

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when you finally land a job and you feel on top of the world

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About Austin Manchester

Austin is in his final year at the University of Florida studying English. He enjoys binging on Shark Tank, winning the Mortal Kombat, and occasionally stepping in for Batman when necessary.

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