I know people who gave everything to their jobs. People who were the first ones in and the last ones to leave. People who mentored others, held teams together, stayed through toxic leadership, and still found a way to show up with a good attitude.
Now they’re unemployed.
They’re applying to hundreds of jobs. Updating resumes. Writing cover letters. Reaching out to recruiters. Going through interviews with no feedback. Getting ghosted after final rounds. Being told they’re overqualified. Being told they’re not the “right fit.”
And no one is talking about how messed up this is.
There’s no roadmap for the silence.
There’s no guide for what it does to your confidence.
There’s no checklist for the anxiety that comes with waiting for a reply that may never come.
Let’s be real. The hiring process has become robotic, cold, and disconnected from actual people.
we get through the basics and I like what I’m hearing, I switch gears completely and start explaining why they shouldn’t.
I tell them they’ll be doing things outside their job description.
They might jump on sales calls even though they’re in finance.
They’ll write blog posts for our website and represent us at conferences.
Then I get specific: “When I asked if you’re comfortable being client-facing, it’s because we’re putting you in front of customers next month.”
I watch their reaction.
Some candidates ask about extra compensation for extra responsibilities, which is completely fair.
But more than once, a month in, those same people ended up focused entirely on tasks they didn’t expect and boundaries.
"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful
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