my ‘do you want a job?’ filter was turned off!

would you believe it? all these months I was impatiently waiting for someone to offer me a glimpse of a sliver of a smidgeon of an interview, and all along my emails settings were turned off! i turned it back on and now i’m working at open ai in a vague advisory position, too overpaid for my liking as the taxes are killing me.

no i am not. but feels like i forgot to tick a box somewhere, surely. there’s a company that should remain nameless for now, i applied to their ecommerce manager, 4-5 years experience, about 3 times now. they keep reposting on linkedin. i mean, is the issue that I have 3 times that experience? i hit all their requirements, send cover letters, tweak the CV, and it’s ‘after careful consideration’ that they dump me.

not all is lost though - today i had an interview, and i was so excited to talk to someone on the other side that i told them about my house, my kids, what i hate about linkedin, what i think about ai, what i thought about their client’s website and how i would fix it right now (ok that’s actually pertinent to an interview, but i didn’t have to go into that much detail), how my kid is trans and it’s a challenge, and pretty much anything else i could think of purely because i was like ‘whoa’, they exist! recruiters do exist, it’s not just something linkedin made up for you to pay for premium.

‘someone with recruiter in their title’ looked at your profile. that’s super helpful, Li. ‘someone whose name starts with the letter S, and is a capricorn, looked at your profile’. ‘someone carbon based looked at your profile’. fantastic, thanks.

i also had a nice call with a very helpful gentleman from the national careers advice, as i’m considering branching out. he suggested more boring stuff like data analysis, which was disappointing as i was thinking lion tamer (yes, i stole that from monty python, so sue me), or belly dancer. what, i already have the belly for it…

anyway, let’s see what the week brings - hopefully the interview lady will take pity on me and my very clear starvation for human contact and book me a face to face chat. fingers crossed.