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Folks, let’s all take a big, deep breath together… Because the world seems like it’s pretty screwed up right now! And one of the many issues that everyday people are facing right now is the tough job market.

You’ve no doubt heard all kinds of stories about people who get rejection after rejection and just can’t seem to get ahead. Well, the woman you’re about to hear from did finally land a job…

But it hasn’t made her life any better.

Let’s take a look at what she’s going through.

I finally got a minimum wage part time job after over 1,000 rejections and failed interviews, yet I felt empty and unaccomplished.

“After 6 years of painful frustration, over 1,000 rejections letters, way more times I got ghosted and over 50 interviews ended in failure, I finally gotten a part time job at a Chinese Supermarket in the produce section.

My best friend cried in happiness that I finally gotten a job and can’t wait to tell others despite telling him to keep it a secret for now (he struggles to keep that a secret despite holding many of my boyfriend’s secrets for him with ease).

That and I finally fulfill my promise to get a job to go on many overseas travel that I kept failing to fulfill my promise whether its deserve or not.

Well, this sounded promising…

My mom is happy and can’t wait to take advantage of my employee discount for food, and is helping me find a second job since its a part time job without any full time benefit (I don’t want to look for a second part time job now as I might work up to 40 hours per week as a part timer if others slack off).

My dad is finally proud of me for finding a job and it’s a huge step to adulthood and finding pride in a minimum wage job and encourage me to work harder than your employees to make sure your boss will like and promote me even though I doubt it and went on a large lecture about why current generation are lazy and ungrateful for what they are given compare to his baby boomer days.

And I finally defeated my long time childhood rival (and also my best friend as well) in beating her into getting a minimum wage part time job at the supermarket in my one sided rivalry as she congratulated me on my victory.

This isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…

Yet I felt empty and depressed about upon further reflection. If this is the greatest highlight in my adult career, the job market is incredibly screwed.

So many of us Gen Z and Gen Y and later Gen Alpha when they get their turn will have to fight and scrap for a minimum wage part time job all because greedy cooperates refuse to pay us properly and keep the job scarce so they can keep the pay low for desperate unemployed people like me.

It’s pretty rough out there these days…

Also, being barely hired by the company after failing to qualify in the first job fair interview, came back for the 2nd job fair interview out of sheer miracle, then got surprise to do a second private interview with a manager who may not speak English and is forced to speak full Mandarin barely and is lucky enough that the manager find it endearing and hire me anyway does feel like winning at all.

It feels like a Hail Mary miracle where fate pities me and gave me a job to feel better about it.

That and when I do get hired I fully expect to fully be exploited, not treated well and probably get fired for all sorts of reason and my dad wants me to feel pride and loyalty to a company that might backstab me in the back when they have the reason to.”

Reddit users spoke up.

This person weighed in.

And another individual spoke up.

It’s never easy to admit that you aren’t happy. And it’s clear that she’s going through a lot right now… All you can do is put your best foot forward and keep trying, friends.

No doubt about it, the job market is really tough these days…