It's been 9 weeks since I was laid off from my job, and the stress is really piling up. I have a mortgage to pay and a kid in daycare, but my severance is running out. I've stopped counting rejections, but the last time I checked, I had around 147. It's hard not to take each rejection personally; it feels like proof that there's something wrong with me. I've spent countless hours obsessing over my resume, trying to tweak every little detail, thinking that maybe the wording was the reason I wasn't getting interviews. I even had a friend review it and ran it through ChatGPT, but it seems like no matter how much I try to improve it, the results are the same. I've come to realize that I can't spend every waking hour applying for jobs anymore. It was driving me crazy. Now, I try to take one day a week where I completely step away from job boards. It helps a little, but the frustration is still there. I just wanted to vent about how tough this process has been.
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