[Beltalowda]

I find myself wondering if my email is broken. Which is to say I get very little reply.

Compare this to a year ago when I got a reply to almost every application I sent out.

I'm kind of kicking myself for being so picky; I haven't had a job in a few years and running out of money (I was never that well-off, but coming from a working-class background I don't live an expensive life). I've had a few bad experiences and I wanted to find something I really liked (I actually had a very well paid "Silicon Valley type" job for a company most here will know last year which I quit after 3 months because they gave me fuck all to do and I felt their engineering ethos was horrible – it just didn't feel right accepting a huge salary and not working for it).

[nick-of-time]

I just recently got a job after a few years away. It was the only interview I got out of about a dozen crafted applications and probably over a hundred basic ones.