kasdeya

I absolutely hate the requirements to “dress professionally” and “act professional” and even create a LinkedIn profile for a fake “professional” persona for myself, just to convince potential employers that I meet their preconceived and utterly arbitrary idea of what a good worker is

the whole thing makes me want to take a shower - I hate it T_T

but I’m thinking about making a LinkedIn unfortunately, because it seems like I need connections in order to get any kind of job at all, and making connections offline is extremely difficult for me as someone with crippling social anxiety

Jan 6 at 7:09pmWeb
Show threadmidnight postingJan 6

@kasdeya It feels bleh, but having a LinkedIn profile could lead to random recruiters hitting you up if you if you match their keywords, which might mean not having to exit the tech market entirely.

Do you have any previous coworkers you can connect with to inflate your numbers? It's a corporate mask and requires feeding your info to them, but it does work.

I"ve never needed to post or engage to get random pings. I just have a cleaned up version of my resume there.

Show threadmidnight postingJan 6
@kasdeya And to be absolutely certain I'm not coming off wrong, the tech market suuuuucks right now and I'm sorry. I have a friend who's been searching for six months - he got an interview recently but didn't get the job. The competition is insane.
Show threadBiscuits of DeathJan 11
@kasdeya I fucking hate linkedin. It sucks your soul out. But if you need a connection you can hit me up. [email protected] I'm professional lol
Show threadkasdeyaJan 14
@biscuitsofdeath omg thank you! I really appreciate this, and I might take you up on it sometime. I’m still figuring out what I even want to do right now, but it’s great to have a potential connection (on that horrible website T_T)