my mom: well, i volunteered to help out in the classroom and they hired me the next day. that's how i worked as a high school teacher for the next thirty years

they really were just giving out jobs back then

@BestGirlGrace lmao yeah my dad was like “i’ve been trying to find a job for months”

“how many have you applied for”

“4”

@eri @BestGirlGrace i think i’m applying wrong but also every job seems to require experience or certs i cannot get without working

@charlotte @BestGirlGrace no that’s just how it is yeah

@eri @BestGirlGrace do you just apply to them anyways and feel shit about it

@charlotte @BestGirlGrace why would you feel bad it’s their job to find a good candidate not yours. your job is (Null)

@eri @BestGirlGrace it’s also kinda hard to explain in a employer friendly way why i want to apply to a job that hard requires specific credentials even though i do not have them

@charlotte @BestGirlGrace why should you be friendly to employers? they’re not friendly to you

@eri @BestGirlGrace so that they might hire me?

@eri @BestGirlGrace like yeah they absolutely do not value my time this is why you need to write a cover letter to them too

@BestGirlGrace @eri other time it is the government that doesn’t value my time like the time they rejected a vocational training thing i landed an interview for because it used the wrong word in the name