Well, I moved to Pakistan for 6 months last year, and I had hopes to blog the process but tumblr is banned in Pakistan... Which was hilarious. Why I had never considered that it could be that way is funny, I had been there semi regularly for a long time and never had to think of the banning of websites. Wild.
Any way I come back to you a year and a bit later, back from Pakistan for about 8 months now and still unemployed. Its become an issue-issue, like and ISSUE. 3 degrees and international experience? Meaning nothing in this fucking job market and that is just WILD.
I feel stupid, but I think anyone in this position hearing the things I have done to try and get a job also feel like I am insane. So, it's neither here nor there.
Which is great let me tell you.
Either way, just wanted to let you know about my year so far figures, and then from August onwards I will be doing this monthly.
This year so far, I have:
attempted to make 3 versions of a non-law CV
made applications in 2 continents, and about 8 different countries.
volunteered in 2 different places, one law, one law adjacent.
one interview in a law-adjacent position where they cancelled on me in error and didn't confirm I still had the interview until less then and hour before. Which fucked me over, I was a mess. They then refused to give any feedback, which really helped.
I refuse to total up the amount of applications I have done this year, but will let you know how many I did in August.
I am exhausted with this process of doing all of this every damn time.
Right now working my way through the civil service jobs, salaries aren't great but they are incredibly transparent with the hiring process and its all methodical if nothing else.
Anyone else going through something similar? I would love to talk about how shit everything is and scream about how over this entire situation I am.
Do I yearn for salaried hell - at this point yes D''':