And now, The Angsty Poetry Corner.

[athelind]

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And poops on all your aspirations.

You know, one of the biggest obstacles in motivating my job hunt is the question, "Why am I putting so much effort into getting something that makes pretty much everyone miserable, when I can be miserable with no effort whatsoever?"

Addendum: The Emily Dickinson parody above was prompted by a conversation with jdarkwulf about getting excited when one finds a job that seems specifically suited for one's skills and experience, only to find one's self in the same echoless void into which one has tossed all of one's other resumes.

Comments

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Because even though my job makes me miserable, not having a job made me more miserable. ^.^

[richardf8]

Well, I think its because the alternative is a cozy spot under a bridge with a coupla rats roasting on a garbage can fire.

Hey! That sounds better than what I'm doing right now!

[paka.livejournal.com]

I think part of the tao of jobhunting is to not hope too much for any one job, especially in the initial phases of sending off resumes and cover letters.

The part I haven't figured out yet is how to toss off resumes and cover letters with enough optimism to make yourself sound good, but without draining yourself of energy in the hope/despair thing. At the present time my only solution is doing it in really small chunks, like 15 minutes or so.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

No specific jobhunting advice this time -- you've gotten enough of that, unsolicited, as is.

But remember you always have my shoulder to lean on when things get tough.

Job-hunting can be the most de-humanizing thing you can encounter because of all the rejection, but it doesn't have to be -- heck, someone in my therapy group, in a VERY similar situation to your own, is making a game out of it and having fun. Since you, like she, are in no immediate danger of getting tossed out into the street (try job searching under THOSE circumstances -- I did) there's no reason why you can't do the same. Heck, it's what *I* am going to do.

-- ArchTeryx

[araquan.livejournal.com]

This is a problem for me also.