I wished that's how it worked. Although I've gotten 1 response out of 40+ applications, so I could be doing something wrong...
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Wait, I have to redo the math, because I was sending about 7 a week for a while there
Yeah, starting to feel increasingly pointless to even apply for anything.
Any meaningful work I have done has been either physical proximity (sure you can relate) or I made enough noise in my area of interest (online or in person) and attracted people. Things have been different this go around though
I tend to do really well in interviews, but my resume is bizarre. Formal qualifications are excellent, but in a different branch than the experience. The experience starts when I'm 17, there's a 10-year break, the photo MUST be catfishing, and the experience is like, No fucking way that is even true.
Whatever.
Can't disagree. I think I usually do well in interviews too, but I haven't had any big corporate interviews yet. But I think most people could say the same
90% of the positions aren't real. They're just marketing.
I'm applying for 100% remote positions and there are like 8 of those in Germany. And they get 500 applicants apiece, probably.
Have you seen https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/
These jobs are all over the place, but since your still kind of a US lady the majority of the postings seem to be in the US, but maybe 1/4, and I usually get 140-200 new listings per day. Only about 2 worth applying to per day
That's a pretty standard response rate, based on my experience and that of people I know.
I've seen plenty of "research" blog posts saying even 1/40 is pretty good. Expect something like 1/100. I didn't even know that many positions existed. I don't understand large scale corporate economy
I tend to be more like 3/5, or so, because I'm so limited in which jobs I can apply for that I'm always overqualified and don't expect much from the salary.
Of course, then I'm lacadaisical when I work because I'm underworked and underpaid, but whatever. Mom jobs. Hard to even bother.
Working is really hard when you can't leave the house and return at the same time every day. That's like 90% of having a job. 😂
It's great you've been able to find mom jobs! Not all employers are amenable to those flexible hours and split attention.
A friend and I had an idea to make a small time, recruiting service for moms. A little more than recruiting, but essentially like a work dispatching service of sorts.
We call those "janitorial services" around here.
I actually prefer menial labor. I can think about whatever I want all day and don't have to sit in stupid meetings or kill time.
i spent a year working as a cleaner for a highschool
it was hard sometimes but my chest swells with pride that the art teachers had never seen such clean rooms before, and i typically finished my shift 30 minutes early
I used to clean the bakery and the coffee shop and the toilets, after working all morning rolling pretzels.
That was my favorite job, so far.
i love my dev work but doing derivative bullshit wears thin pretty fast, and i have to keep my sats balance in mind as i idle out for much of a second month now
hoping that in a week or two this bit of "fun" i'm doing will finally fix some shit i was struggling with in the paid work and and open more doors to building more with it... i know that i can get some traction just by making replicatr production ready so i can start thinking about something beyond this will be good
like, i really really want to be able to plug a legit GUI client together, but only have to mainly deal with the actual code and not the mysteries of node_modules
If engineering fails for me, there's a good chance I'll jump back into a labor position of some sort. It's often quite rewarding in the short term, as long as you build a path to an air-conditioned office. Although the only successful people in construction I've met, is generational.
Unfortunately the baking family trade stopped with me after my father passed. He always wanted me to use my head, not my body. Although there is a good chance I would have taken it over like he did at my age.
I wanted to take over the bakery, but he wanted to retire and not have to deal with an apprentice.
Hmm. How about a home issue board with sat rewards for completion. Agile Chores and allowances.
That would motivate me, right now, to go cook dinner. 😂
Fair, but does it work for some or most?
It seems that most job postings are generated for some other purpose than to actually find a candidate.
So often I hear friends talk about how they send an application and don't receive a response of any kind until months later.
That indicates companies aren't actually serious about filling roles.
Maybe the postings are to signal a growth position to investors or such like.
yeah, I'm thinking the same thing
The earliest response I got was in June about an app I submitted in early march. It was a denial. "Sorry but were headed in a different direction"
They keep the postings up, even while doing layoff rounds.