Nah, he gives me that creepy feeling.

He has that creep factor.

The reason I don’t buy booze and limit snack buying… if it’s in my house it is going to be consumed quickly.

It’s like a challenge, it’s there, it will be consumed.

Can’t even play the game.

I can spend as much time in the menu and settings as I want, watch the first cutscene just fine… but as soon as I enter the game it freezes within 1 minute every time.

Literally unplayable.

I’ve tried tweaks I found online, tried new drivers (the version mentioned in the launcher) and the previous driver version recommended on the official website and no changes.

Womp womp.

Installed Doom 2016 and enjoying it again.

Remote, hybrid and on-site… everything. I am applying for everything.

Basically, I am applying for any role I have done previously and recently.

Junior, mid and senior roles.

There are loads of IT roles that overlap, so a lot of different things I can do.

I went all out applying in about August last year and I am at about 550+ applications.

I’ve probably put in about 30+ today alone.

I’ve had about 6 interviews and only 2 of them were from applications I made, the rest were organised by recruiters that contacted me.

Spoke to an old colleague of mine that did a similar job to me, he got the axe from our company after I left and it took him about 300 applications to get 3 interviews and then finally a job.

Unfortunately for me, I took a role in a niche area because I needed a visa at the time and moved onto another role afterwards but I have too little experience in that area to land another role in it.

So, my main focus is too long ago to land a role, my latest experience is too little to land a role, and my main experience is too niche for me to find any roles.

Speaking to a few recruiters and they all say the same thing, 300+ applications on every role they advertise.

I have a few saved cover letters that cover certain role types.

I either copy and paste that in or attach them.

Regardless, getting nowhere with the job search. The job market is cooked.

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and this just popped up in my feed.

Pros: I don’t have to sneak around like a criminal just to get a plant.

Skunks are cool.

Cyclist meets family of skunks

Kind of like the Doom Slayer.

When it comes to Elon and Trump, what I assume is:

Whenever they say they are going to do something bad, it is the truth.

Whenever they say they are going to do something good, it is a lie.

Snowflake.

My old boss called me, said please come to my office… my laptop will not turn on and I cannot figure it out.

I get there, he tells me to please help him, he is probably being stupid.

I look at his laptop, I see his charger plugged in, I follow it down the desk, across the floor all the way to the wall socket where the plug lies…

He had walked the charger’s plug to the wall socket and just left it on the ground.

I plug it in, he sees me do this, laptop turns on, I leave.

Someone writing on that show had to have worked IT at some stage.

A lot of things that happened in that show resonated with my IT support experience.

I saw some clips on YT where they removed the laugh track.

It’s really hard to find the show funny when they take out the bit where it tells you when to laugh.

I’ve always found him to be creepy, just got that feeling from him.

I cringe every time I see him.

I’m at 200+ applications and only a few rejections, nothing else.

The job market is cooked.