30 Thoughts Everyone Has While Job Searching

So you have the internet up. You go to a job search site and make an account and upload your resume. Just seeing the first screen in front of your face makes you all giddy inside; it also gives you a nervous pit in your stomach, but you try to let that pass.

You start searching through jobs, before really filtering out your search just to see what’s out there. In your mind, you are thinking, “wow, there are so many jobs out there, of course there will be something for me.”

Your optimism is through the roof or at least it is subpar at best. As you fully submerse yourself in the job search process, you start to realize that maybe this isn’t as fun as you thought it would be. Your mind starts to have thoughts of its own and it goes a little something like this.

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1. Am I being too detailed with my search?

2. Do I really want to drive all that way for this job?

3. Oh, this looks perfect for me!

4. Yes! I can just upload my resume so I don’t have to fill out my information.

5. Omg, wait what? Employment history?

6. DIDN’T I JUST UPLOAD MY EMPLOYMENT HISTORY?!

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7. References? Does my sibling’s brother count?

8. Can’t someone be related? Well … crap …

9. When can I work? Well of course not Saturdays, well, hmm … maybe I should …

10. Send! Well that wasn’t terribly painful.

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11. This job is in a whole other state …

12. Do I want to be away from everyone?

13. Oh, look at the pay though!

14. AND they pay for my flight there … well there is Skype to talk to my friends.

15. Okay fine, I’m going to apply!

16. OMG! I JUST UPLOADED MY RESUME, WHY DO YOU WANT MY EMPLOYEE HISTORY AGAIN?!

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17. Special skills? Hmm … does ‘being good at Google’ count?

18. This job looks promising, but must be available for weekends?

19. Cover letter? Is that like my resume?

20. … Google cover letter

21. Ugh, I’m never going to hear back from any of these people!

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22. No! You can do it; you are just as good as any other candidate!

23. Must have master’s degree? Ugh!

24. Must be proficient in ‘enter special skill.’ Well, I could learn to be proficient in it.

25. Why are they making me take a quiz?

26. If there is no one else on the floor and a customer … blah blah …

27. Wait, I have to create a whole new account on a different site?

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28. Why are they making this so difficult? I don’t even really want this job.

29. All this job searching is making me hungry.

30. I’ll come back later … maybe …

One if not all of these are the various things that go through your head as you look into getting a job. The order of these thoughts may be different or you may actually love the thrill of searching for future employment, but all in all it is tedious work.

Sometimes you can never find the right job and of course you don’t want to settle. Or you have the degree to get a certain job, but they just don’t hire you. Also, there is actually such a thing as being overqualified for a job, which sometimes can be beneficial to you; but of course most people just want to find a job in general, so just filing paperwork would be good enough for them.

Students just getting out of college usually want to find a job pronto and don’t realize that finding a real career-worthy job is much different than when they were just trying to find a job at the mall. Yes, of course jobs that may not seem like “career-like” jobs can turn into one. You could move up and your job searching can stop, that can always happen. But, if it doesn’t, remember to always keep your head up during your searches and keep an optimistic attitude, as sometimes the times spent searching can quite literally drain the life out of you.

Having to continuously input your employee history, when you just uploaded your resume, can literally be the most hated next screen you will ever see. You just have to get past it and move on to the next item on the list. When your search is done and you have found your mostly forever job, you will be glad you did all those things and probably never regret any of these thoughts. Probably not ever. Most likely you will laugh about these things. One thing you will not laugh about is having to write your employee history when you JUST UPLOADED YOUR RESUME! Yes, I just wrote that again, because it sucks. It is literally the worse thing ever.