“282 applications since the second of June. 103 rejections. Three conversations with an actual human being.”

282 applications since the second of June. 103 rejections. Three conversations with an actual human being.

The one that has gone furthest is a company I would like to work for, and its base ceiling is below the bottom of the range I set for myself when I started. I have not said out loud to anyone that I will probably take it. That is the part I can’t post. Not the rejections. Rejections are boring, everyone has a folder of them. The unpostable part is that the thing I am hoping hardest for is a pay cut.

I write cover letters that the forms have no field for. Twice this month the argument got made in a document nobody opened.

The word for how I’m doing is savings.