![\"\"](\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lion_gazelle.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an anecdote where a hungry lion leaps into a herd of gazelle, ready to hunt.\u00a0 <\/span>But the lion can\u2019t seem to focus on a single target and is overwhelmed by the mass variety of options around them and runs around in circles, allowing all of the gazelle to escape.\u00a0 <\/span>And so the lion goes hungry and takes an L for all their troubles with no payoff.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s basically pretty precisely what job searching feels like to me now.\u00a0 <\/span>It doesn\u2019t help that I\u2019m at this stage of my career and life where I don\u2019t really know precisely what it is I want to do, whether or not I want to continue to try and climb up a ladder that I\u2019m more disgusted and jaded with more often than not, or if I just want to seek out a more menial job that might pay well but have little room for advancement, but would provide me a steady paycheck, financial stability, and the ability to be more available to my budding family.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, I\u2019m in this pool of indecision on whether or not I should be looking at actual companies in the Atlanta area, or if I should be seeking out one of the supposed thousands of remote jobs out there in the new, coronavirus-aided working world, where I might consider taking some cuts for the right to work 100% remote.<\/span><\/p>\n What it all amounts to is me sitting in front of my computer with very finite amounts of time dictated by the sleeping\/eating\/awake times of my children, trying to find adequate jobs to apply for, much less even hope for callbacks, and hope that I have a modicum of capability to weed, vet and find potential without completely killing my career.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, I\u2019m often times feeling overwhelmed and dejected by the whole process, and I\u2019m beginning to understand why there are services out there now where you pay to set up a profile and have someone else pimp your name out there for you.\u00a0 <\/span>There\u2019s just so much variety and options in the searching fields now between numerous search engines, job boards and social media services, and that\u2019s not even including the wealth of options out there that are remote.<\/span><\/p>\n And much like the lion that gets overwhelmed and owned by the gazelle and indecision, I\u2019m left feeling dejected and a little hopeless that my search during my leave will bear not fruit, and I\u2019ll be relegated to going back to work at a job that I\u2019ve grown to loathe over the last few years.\u00a0 <\/span>Sure, I\u2019m fortunate to have that to fall back onto, but in not even a perfect world, change is still the priority objective.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s an anecdote where a hungry lion leaps into a herd of gazelle, ready to hunt.\u00a0 But the lion can\u2019t seem to focus on a single target and is overwhelmed by the mass variety of options around them and runs around in circles, allowing all of the gazelle to escape.\u00a0 And so the lion goes … Continue reading What job searching feels like these days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,100,45,37,52],"class_list":["post-48141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-job","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48143,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions\/48143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}