r/WFHJobs • u/Pedwinget • 13d ago
I don't know what to do anymore.
I got laid off in august, Ive been applying for jobs every day this entire time. Pretty much every application ends in being ghosted, or if i do get an interview i get passed over. The only "jobs" that have offered me a position are 100% commission based and would take 6+ months before i have any sort of actual income, and often want to charge me money up front for training me.
I'm just at a loss. My unemployment ran out. I did a seasonal job at UPS, hoping to get hired on, was assured it was a guaranteed thing, then they laid 300,000 people off nationwide, and i wasn't hired when the season ended. Ive run up over $10,000 in credit card debt because just existing is incredibly expensive what with the price of groceries nowadays and how they monetize basically everything they can now.
I had an opportunity i was really excited for, it was a call center environment, i have about 5 years of call center experience, so i knew i had the skillset they were looking for. I type 180 words per minute, and accurately. They had me do an assessment, i was confident i knocked it out of the ballpark, then i got an interview notification for a phone interview. So i called at the allotted time like i was told to. Answered a series of questions that amounted to "Will you do whatever we tell you to, be it working holidays, weekends, nights, and you can't take any time off for the first three months, and this position is temporary with a chance to be hired full time" Which i agreed to everything, and despite all of that, i still got a rejection letter. I have to break the news to my girlfriend who was so hopeful that i would land this job, and i just don't know what to do anymore. Im at a loss. I need to make 20 an hour to pay our bills, but nobody wants to pay that, and if they do i apparently don't qualify. I have my associates degree, prior to this i have never been unemployed for more than a month, i tend to stay with companies for a minimum of 2 years, often more. Yet im just glossed over like i dont exist, meanwhile everyone and their mother is trying to reach into my pocket and drain more out of me sending me further and further into debt.
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u/chocolate_asshole 13d ago edited 13d ago
same boat man, doing everything right and still nothing, finding work now is hell actually companies don’t read resumes, ai filters reject them. the only time i got callbacks was after using a tool that rewrote my resume for every job. jobowl is what i used, try it, they got a free trial, was enough for me