Archives | All my posts on Job Hunting

Originally published/last updated on myearlyretirementjourney.com on Jan 1, 2020. 

I’m ready to be done with this job hunt. I’m sure you’re ready to be done reading about it. My housing dilemma was wrapped up in the job hunt as I thought that would be an easy out. New job, new place. That didn’t work.

The job hunt has left such an ugly stain on my heart and my story, I wanted to trap all the posts in one place. I’m hoping there’s a happy end to this story. But there’s an equally likely chance I’m already living it.

Here are all the posts about my job hunt in 2019, and a little from 2018. With the ringing in of the new year, I’m hoping to put this catastrophe behind me. Pivot. Adapt. Overcome.

WARNING: They’re not nice!

• Passed Over for a Promotion
• On Being Kicked and Staying Down
• Dream Bio vs Current Bio: How I Still Don’t Know What To Do With My Life
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: July 7 Update
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: July 8 Update
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Jul 9 Update (Discouraged)
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Jul 12 Update, What a Difference a Day Makes
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Are these pre-interview questions rude?
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Jul 13 Update, So Many Hoops
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Jul 19 Update, Living a Double Life
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Jul 26 Update, Losing My Mind
• Journey of 20 Job Applications: Aug 1 Update, Am I Unemployed?
• 10 Very Descriptive Statistics, Keen Observations from 20 Job Applications
• Unemployment Diaries: Aug 5, 11a
• Unemployment Diaries: Aug 6, 3:50pm
• Unemployment Diaries: 1 Week Later, Torn
• Unemployment Diaries: 3 Quarter Horses in a Race I’m Not Sure I Want to Win
• Unemployment Diaries: Tuesdays, 70 Job Applications, Spain
• Unemployment Diaries: 3.5 Weeks Later, The Dust Settles
• Unemployment Diaries: 4 Pieces of Bad Advice I’ve Been Given
• Unemployment Diaries: 5 Weeks Later, Psychological Implications
• Unemployment Diaries: 6 Weeks, 100 Applications, 1 Offer, Plastic Bag Suffocation
• Unemployment Diaries: Week 7, 2 Phone Screens and a 5-Step Plan to End My Life
• Unemployment Diaries: Oct 1, 2 Months of Expenses, More Let Downs, and Aunty MERJ update
• Underemployment Diaries: 1 Week Later, A Quick Update
• Tries and Fails: Blogging, Job Hopping, Increasing My Income
• Underemployment Diaries: Week 2, Disgruntled Lamentations
• Medical Information Manager Salaries
• Underemployment Diaries: Week 3, Are you there, God? It’s me, MERJ.
• The Surprising New Face of Today’s Gatekeepers: Race and Gender in Pharmaceutical Medical Information Interviews
• A November 2019 Update: New Job, Aunty MERJ, Homeownership
• Nov 23, 2019 Life Update: A Year of Self-Sabotage, Regrets, and Lack of Self-Control
• Dec 9, 2019: 2 Months At New Job, Still Terrible
• I got the offer!