Job Hunting In College As Told By The Office
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Job Hunting In College As Told By The Office

*tries to declare bankruptcy before even leaving school*

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Job Hunting In College As Told By The Office
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Being a student is hard enough, but when it comes to finding internships and summer jobs frustration reaches an all time high. Endless interviews, online applications, and hoping employers don't notice that you aren't exactly what they're looking for is stressful and what better way to express frustration and a lack of progress than the office? Here is the process of job hunting as a college student told by the office.

When your parents keep telling you to start looking for jobs and you put it off because you don't feel like it.

When you finally sit down and get started thinking you'll be done quickly, but three hours later you still haven't found anything.

When you read what the company does so you can pretend whatever they do is your passion and don't know what any of the words mean.

When you send out a bunch of emails that you wrote, reread, proof-read, edited, and used a thesaurus for only to get a one sentence response with "sent from my iphone" at the bottom.

When you know there's nothing on your resume, but you have a great personality.

When no one will give you an interview so they'll never witness that great personality.

When you eventually find a job that you're somewhat qualified for, but its unpaid.

When you leave your interview feeling confident that they were amazed by your charm.

When they "decide to go in a different direction".

When you realize job hunting is too hard and decide to give up to live a life of minimalism.

When you swallow your pride and take any job you can get despite the lack of pay, dignity, and relevance to you imagined career.

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