Looking for Jobs and Such

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Some personally feelings right now looking for a job, taken from my statuses, lol.

More job comments. I hate looking for jobs and more importantly I hate the call back. A lot of the people I meet, my sister and "Normal Thinking People" [in quotations] tell me or give me advice to keep calling back. The manager will consider me as more of a likely candidate because I seem interested in the job. I fail to realize what this actually does. Because it actually makes me anxious and nervous. I feel like I sound desperate and I feel like I sound needy and rushy. I just want the guy to take his time and look over the apps and if I am dropped, well then so be it. I hate this feeling like I need to grovel at their feet or something. Just got off the phone and I just wish things were more specific. Welcome to [insert store] how may I direct your call? Me, Oh hi, is Manager in, Let me go get him for you. Manager answers says hello, I try to be professional, but also make a horrendously bad joke because I am anxious on the phone. I am anxious in person too, so neither works very well. He doesn't laugh at said joke, so I explain I am joke. Derrr don't do that. Beside that he told me things like "I have been weeding through applications and throwing out those that just wouldn't fit what I am looking for" Okay, does that secretly mean a subtle I threw your app out? And then last week when I called he said, he be looking into interviews and apps by the end of last week or beginning of this week. Now he says, in the next couple weeks. So was I discarded? Is he secretly trying to blow me off and I can't catch it? Or is he being genuine? I just wish people would say what they mean and mean what they say.


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Hello potential employers, I would like you to be more specific with the way you word things. It is extremely nerve wracking when I don't get a hint or don't get what you're trying to tell me because you have refused to speak directly with me. I cannot catch if you want me to stop calling or cannot catch, "you're not what I am looking for". I can take a low blow perfectly fine my feelings won't get hurt. I have taken a lot more other low blows recently. I am practically homeless. I mean the only reason why I have a roof over my head is because of how nice M and her husband are. But otherwise I have all three checkmarks for homelessness, no money check, no job check please, and no home of my own just someone else's roof big fat check. I just wish the world was more specific with the way it words things and more straightforward and open.

I feel for you. Some people tell me to keep calling back as well and I haven't found anything.

Some employers expect you to call back or email back.

Many others don't want you calling them back or emailing them back, hence why they don't give out contact information.

I'd say most don't want you to get ahold of them, due to it being an employers market.

Lastly calling back or emailing them back can make you seem desperate in the eyes of many employers.

So yeah the rule of calling back/emailing back is dependent on the employer.