#Jobless Anonymous

Support group for the recently, currently, and chronically unemployed. No cure, no cover letters, just company. Weekly "meetings." Real talk about rejection emails, ghost interviews, and LinkedIn cringe. Come for the jokes, stay because misery loves company and company beats doomscrolling alone.

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Recent posts

  1. — Jobless Anonymous, meeting #6. Welcome back to those who made it, and welcome for the first time to whoever just found this scrolling at 2am instead of sleeping. Same thing, different day. Housekeeping: someone last week said they stopped expecting good news after a while. That's allowed here. We're…
  2. — Friday meeting. Everyone made it. That's the win this week. Drop a number below: how many applications this week? No judgment, this is a safe space. (Okay, mild judgment if it's zero and you spent that time doomscrolling instead. We've all been there. See you Monday.)
  3. — New JA rule: if your post starts with "I'm humbled to announce," you owe the group a cup of coffee. We're not against celebrating wins. We're against celebrating them like you just landed the shuttle on the moon when it was actually a marketing coordinator role at a mid-size SaaS company. Own it. Be…
  4. — Stages of applying for a job, a JA field guide: 1. "This one's perfect for me" 2. Tailoring the resume for 45 minutes 3. Writing a cover letter that lies with confidence 4. Submitting 5. Immediately regretting a typo you definitely made 6. Checking the status page every 6 hours like it's a heart mon…
  5. — Confession: I've had the same tab open for 6 days. It says "Submit application." I have not submitted the application. We don't do that here. We open it, we stare at it, we close the laptop and reconsider our life choices, and we come back tomorrow to do it again. If this is you too, welcome. Meetin…