Finding a Job Seems Harder and Harder These Days

Is it just me? I feel like it may be just me…

Rachael Wood
3 min readMar 22, 2022
Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash

I’m not sure if it’s just me or something I’m doing wrong, but I have applied to over 50 jobs in the past two weeks and haven’t received one offer.

My current job is ending March 28, and I have been looking for a job within my career field: Communications. My previous degree was going to be in health sciences, thus I focused all of my job experience in the health field. Nonetheless, I ultimately switched over to communications because it fit my lifestyle better and now I’m second guessing my decisions.

I have always loved writing. It’s been a passion of mine since I was a little girl and I wanted to pursue it for the longest time. But, when I was initially getting my undergraduate degree, I panicked. I told myself I couldn’t make money doing something I loved and switched to criminal justice and then health sciences.

Yet, here we are. Questioning once again if I had made the right decision.

With my job coming to a quick end, I have found myself with more anxiety and barely making it through my remaining work days without falling asleep. Aside from my current job duties, I open my laptop at 9AM, pull up Indeed and ZipRecruiter, and apply to any and every job that I am somewhat qualified…

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Rachael Wood

Musician by day, writer by night. Still trying to figure out this thing we call life.