User laments inability to find employment

Key claims

• Job searching is described as a humiliating ritual with no success.
• The poster reports repeated job rejections and asks for luck ahead of a coming interview.
• A user reports being rejected after multiple interviews and a take-home assignment, expressing frustration with the job search.
• The user questions why AI providers do not increase their subscription prices by a factor of five.
• The poster claims /biz/ is dying because its former fast-moving catalog was mostly scammers and bots.
• A wagecuck complains his job ruins his sleep and all local job offers are equally intolerable, envying NEETs.

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Source threads (50)

Every thread this story was extracted from, with live and archive links so the evidence is verifiable.

• /biz/62803263 ↗ live · archive skeptical evergreen 8 replies The user questions why AI providers do not increase their subscription prices by a factor of five.
• /biz/62807622 ↗ live · archive pessimistic evergreen 3 replies The poster claims /biz/ is dying because its former fast-moving catalog was mostly scammers and bots.
• /biz/62809034 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 4 replies A wagecuck complains his job ruins his sleep and all local job offers are equally intolerable, envying NEETs.
• /biz/62799755 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 11 replies A user reports being rejected after multiple interviews and a take-home assignment, expressing frustration with the job search.
• /biz/62796940 ↗ live · archive resigned evergreen 12 replies The poster reports repeated job rejections and asks for luck ahead of a coming interview.
• /biz/62791864 ↗ live · archive dejected evergreen 4 replies Job searching is described as a humiliating ritual with no success.
• /biz/62790487 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 6 replies The poster complains that the current job market is very bad.
• /biz/62782800 ↗ live · archive angry evergreen 7 replies Inflation and record AI/hardware profits are enriching the already-wealthy while wages fall and AI eliminates tech jobs.
• /biz/62782719 ↗ live · archive pessimistic evergreen 7 replies The poster asks whether the current job market is worse than the Great Depression.
• /biz/62782124 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 12 replies The poster cannot get hired even at McDonald's, blocking goals of finding a wife and starting a family.
• /biz/62774762 ↗ live · archive despairing evergreen 14 replies A frugal, investment-savvy user near 40 feels stuck because they cannot get hired or acquire starting capital.
• /biz/62779913 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 27 replies User asks the board how to get a job.
• /biz/62778910 ↗ live · archive resigned evergreen 14 replies The poster cites Elon Musk's UBI prediction to justify giving up their job search.
• /biz/62779862 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen Poster asserts in a one-word reaction that AI has already won.
• /biz/62768950 ↗ live · archive convinced evergreen 78 replies AI will render wage labor pointless within 5 years, so working is no longer worth it.
• /biz/62775408 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 50 replies OP demands anyone who sees the thread must reply, an engagement-bait roll call.
• /biz/62766288 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 5 replies An anonymous user complains about a failed Best Buy job interview while needing income to buy more hard drives.
• /biz/62762308 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 28 replies The poster repeatedly reaches job interviews but never gets hired and wonders if their appearance is to blame.
• /biz/62760180 ↗ live · archive sympathetic evergreen 5 replies The poster expresses disbelief that humans can endure working in Walmart's conditions after reading employee accounts.
• /biz/62757183 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 17 replies The user complains that employers send automatic rejection emails within hours of applying, suggesting they are being filtered out of jobs.
• /biz/62736468 ↗ live · archive melancholic evergreen 37 replies Poster laments having sold his soul to wage labor.
• /biz/62751882 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen The poster says they now need to find a job.
• /biz/62745965 ↗ live · archive resigned evergreen 7 replies Worker self-deprecates as 'goycattle' for continuing to work after an overnight incident page.
• /biz/62739807 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 2 replies The poster claims only desperate employers are willing to hire them.
• /biz/62743768 ↗ live · archive envious evergreen 12 replies Poster laments that everyone else appears to be getting rich except them.
• /biz/62742228 ↗ live · archive hopeful evergreen 12 replies A NEET says the lifestyle is boring and asks how to get a job.
• /biz/62738051 ↗ live · archive bitter evergreen 7 replies A frustrated job seeker calls HR managers who reject him metaphysically evil agents of Satan.
• /biz/62737562 ↗ live · archive neutral evergreen 23 replies An anonymous user asks which professions are considered dignified.
• /biz/62735733 ↗ live · archive angry evergreen 10 replies A 25-year-old graphic designer says AI displacement and overqualification have left him unable to find any job.
• /biz/62733694 ↗ live · archive resentful evergreen 9 replies Poster claims socially successful professionals are poorer in savings than /biz/ NEETs despite their life success.
• /biz/62730258 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 17 replies The poster questions why there aren't enough jobs if there is plenty of work to be done.
• /biz/62728079 ↗ live · archive resigned evergreen 46 replies A recent humanities graduate asks how to get hired and whether LinkedIn AI-posting is now required.
• /biz/62729304 ↗ live · archive defeated evergreen 8 replies A tech worker fired due to AI replacement reports then being displaced from a Walmart job by self-checkout automation.
• /biz/62723236 ↗ live · archive despairing evergreen 13 replies After three years of unsuccessful job hunting the user expresses suicidal despair that no company wants their resume.
• /biz/62722245 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 14 replies A user nearing 30 says they cannot afford to buy a house.
• /biz/62730183 ↗ live · archive desperate evergreen 1 replies A user facing eviction after failing exams begs the board for any online work to earn money.
• /biz/62721329 ↗ live · archive concerned evergreen 6 replies A user asks when the job market will improve, expressing concern about employment prospects.
• /biz/62721790 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 9 replies A 21-year-old Finnish investor asks how to accelerate retirement beyond his 20-year index fund timeline.
• /biz/62716761 ↗ live · archive despairing evergreen 20 replies The poster says he cannot hold any job, even at McDonald's, and feels displaced from programming by 'vibecoders'.
• /biz/62718102 ↗ live · archive resentful evergreen 2 replies Poster declares refusal to comply with hiring norms, preferring joblessness over cover letters, HR, and recruiters.
• /biz/62712812 ↗ live · archive dejected evergreen 6 replies The poster reports being rejected for yet another summer internship.
• /biz/62707168 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 4 replies Poster complains that all job listings within 25 miles on Indeed pay only $15-20 per hour before taxes.
• /biz/62705402 ↗ live · archive despairing evergreen 20 replies Poster claims even dishwasher applications ghost them, suspecting blacklisting from jobs.
• /biz/62709329 ↗ live · archive hopeful evergreen 2 replies User asks for a job while making an irrelevant disclaimer.
• /biz/62698422 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 3 replies A top-of-cohort finance undergrad reports getting no replies after ~30 applications to institutional energy trading graduate roles.
• /biz/62693998 ↗ live · archive despondent evergreen 13 replies A jobless poster says they cannot even get interviews.
• /biz/62694097 ↗ live · archive despairing evergreen 21 replies User asserts that no employers are hiring.
• /biz/62693808 ↗ live · archive anxious evergreen 16 replies Poster waits anxiously five days after a job interview with no response and asks how long the wait typically lasts.
• /biz/62690936 ↗ live · archive frustrated evergreen 21 replies A 32-year-old NYC resident with a master's degree and ten years' experience reports every job application being rejected despite using Claude to write application materials.
• /biz/62688662 ↗ live · archive resentful evergreen 8 replies Poster claims employers predominantly hire women and immigrants.

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