I feel like I will never have a career after tarriffs. The job market was already awful but now it’s been exasperated. All the places I was in the interview stages with have ghosted me as soon as the tarriff war started. I’m so tired and been searching for a job since I graduated in May 2024. I’ve put in over 800 applications and been on dozens of interviews, I’ve lost count. I can’t even pay my phone bill anymore. I’m completely financially dependent on my parents because I’ve been out of a job for so long and I fucking hate it. I did what everyone told me to do. I got my bachelor’s degree, gained several years of experience through internships and part time gigs in my career field before graduating, and I tried networking, which I admit I could’ve been better at. I can’t even get a job at a grocery store or coffee shop.
I did everything they told me I needed to do to become successful and have nothing to show for it a year later. None of the work I did during college paid off and means nothing because I graduated into an awful presidency with a lunatic president hell bent on crashing the economy. Everyday it gets progressively worse. I just fucking hate my life and I’m extremely angry at the fucking idiots who voted in a 34 time convicted felon. I truly hope they suffer the worst for putting us all in this situation. I don’t know if I can do another 3 years of this shit.
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I mean yea. He’s pretty much terrible for America and the world.
Trumpers will say to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”.
I am sorry you’re struggling. This country fucking sucks. Look for jobs internationally if you have that opportunity. Im leaving asap lol
Welcome to America. Home of the brave. Land of the Free.*
I’m so sorry you feel like this. I have a job I don’t like and won’t leave because it is pretty stable and I’m afraid $hit is gonna hit the fan in the next few months and I will be unemployed if I quit and become the new unnecessary employee in a different company. It really sucks.
YUP.
Yep. I got laid off the two weeks after he took office. The tariffs tanked our company further and they let 40% of the company go. More layoffs after the last month and there’s 2 people left at the company now. There were 80 just a few months ago. Fucking sucks! I’ve applied at almost 500 companies since and got far in some interviews only for most of the companies to say they are putting the roles on hold until they have more economic stability/tariffs are figured out.
Tangerine Tyrant will put most of us on the streets soon at this rate. I’m overqualified for even entry level roles and I’ve downplayed my resume for a lot of places after some advice from a few recruiters that felt bad for me and gave me some of their time to talk through some things.
I have a college degree and 20 years of experience in tech. I wonder if I’ll ever find another job.
No
You’re definitely not alone. I already live paycheck to paycheck, I don’t know how I’m gonna afford to live with the way the economy is going. Fuck everyone who voted for this piece of shit
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I could give a crap about Trump. I would feel the same way if harris won. Neither of them give a crap about you, you make your own happiness.
Yes. I often wish I was dead.
DUH
You’ll be fine.