So Much Discouragement
I should be in a ball gently rocking myself back and forth, hoping for it all to stop, but somehow I’m not. I continue to get up everyday, pick up my bat and keep hitting those balls back to wherever.
So my update is this. So far 80 applications in the last month or so. 2 interviews – with agencies not real job interviews – and ZERO employment.
My inbox is filled with rejection after rejection every morning which is so good for the ego.
So I’m looking again at other ways to make some income and have turned my attention back onto ebay and arbitrage to see if I might be able to somehow squeeze out a living – not even become rich – just pay the rent which would be awesome.
I need 600.00 a week. That’s it. I can survive on that. That even seems a lot to me but it includes rent, power, food and that’s about it. It’s expensive to be housed that’s for sure.
Some recent stats I heard for one casual 15 hour a week job was this 120 applications in one day, 6 were interviewed, only 1 successful. So what I truly believe is happening, with such high numbers of applications is this. The recruiters are drawing a line in the sand and only reviewing maybe 50. Who has time to go through 120 applications in a small business when statistically someone just as good will be found in the 50 – even 20 for that matter.
So it’s little wonder that jobs I am actually qualified and experienced to perform are not even getting to interview – I don’t even think anyone is reading my application.
I’ve had my resume and CV and cover letters revamped so many times and by so many different professionals, I have come to the belief that there are just too many people applying for too few jobs and if it were me – looking at 120 applications, I wouldn’t even bother with them all either. Government jobs are supposed to but I’ve been there too and I know how that goes.
So, after all this rejection I’m still back in the same square I started in. Broke and trying to creep forward ever slowly to try to build some sort of income for myself doing a variety of things – none of which – so far – have panned out enough but I”m hoping – that damned word – that with enough irons in the fire, I’ll make it through.
I’m targeting my virtual practice management business, so far nothing. Ebay – same. Sewing – same. Writing – getting some residual income from ads and trickles in from the books, but nothing to eat with.
Hope can be a dangerous thing. But it also gets me up every day. There have been days when I have been without hope, unable to get out of bed, unable to go on. Then it passes and I become hopeful again. Maybe today. Maybe I’ll win the lottery. Maybe I’ll get an interview. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Not sure how long I can keep going like this. Getting close to 2 years now. But hope keeps driving me forward.
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