How do you NOT feel like a failure?
Since June, when I became unemployed, I have applied for roughly 80 jobs that my skills and education qualified me for. Of those, I got 6 interviews. Of those interviews, I got 0 job offers.
My question is, how do you not feel depressed every single day? Every time you fail to secure a job? I got a job before I graduated college back in 2006 with ease, now with over 3 years of experience under my belt I can't even get an administrative assistant job. I know it's a numbers game and I should be applying to more than just 80 in a 4 month period. But even though there are substantially more jobs here in NYC than in Seattle (where I was living before) the competition is tougher, more cutthroat, and many of the jobs I come across I don't qualify for.
I'm just wallowing in self-pity and it's rather pathetic. I know logically I shouldn't be depressed and upset; there are so many people in my predicament right now that I'm hardly unique in this situation. I don't know how to stop beating myself up for my complete failure to secure a job in 4 months with tons of experience under my belt when I was able to get a job so easily fresh out of college with no work experience.
How do you keep your head up and keep churning on?
My question is, how do you not feel depressed every single day? Every time you fail to secure a job? I got a job before I graduated college back in 2006 with ease, now with over 3 years of experience under my belt I can't even get an administrative assistant job. I know it's a numbers game and I should be applying to more than just 80 in a 4 month period. But even though there are substantially more jobs here in NYC than in Seattle (where I was living before) the competition is tougher, more cutthroat, and many of the jobs I come across I don't qualify for.
I'm just wallowing in self-pity and it's rather pathetic. I know logically I shouldn't be depressed and upset; there are so many people in my predicament right now that I'm hardly unique in this situation. I don't know how to stop beating myself up for my complete failure to secure a job in 4 months with tons of experience under my belt when I was able to get a job so easily fresh out of college with no work experience.
How do you keep your head up and keep churning on?