I Will Literally Work For Free

I have been unemployed for over a year now, the overall job market is so bad, not just tech jobs. I have had a grand total of TWO interviews in the past 11 months of non stop applying to these jobs almost every day that I very well qualify for, resume modified curated for each job posts, cover letters specifically made for the job if the job application allows it, at least 2,000 jobs applied and nearly all of them are ghosted or outright rejected. The 2 interviews I got were for JCPenney and Home Depot who ended up leaving me on read after the interview…

And no, I’m not applying to doctor jobs or whatever stuff I’m clearly not qualified for, I’m applying to retail jobs like TJMaxx, Nordstrom, Target, Walmart, minimum wage jobs that claim to be “urgently hiring”, Tim Hortons, coffee shops, factory jobs, IT/software tech jobs (which is my main goal to get into), entry level jobs. None of these jobs have the intentions of actually hiring.

There was a factory in my area called Lacks Enterprise that had a giant hiring sign on the road saying “Walk In Hiring”, so I walked into the factory and asked this lady if you’re still hiring, she straight up said they haven’t hired anyone in the last 2 months, “we forgot to take down the sign”.

These tech jobs that I’m trying to ultimately get are not hiring entry level people it seems like, or it’s so competitive it’s basically useless to even attempt to get one when they all just end up ghosting or rejecting you. The job market for tech jobs is extremely terrible, it’s like a senior only market. These companies want to hire people with 10+ years of experience for near minimum wage and they know they can get away with this. I have seen so many job posts on Linkedin and Indeed from big companies saying you must have 10 years of experience with something like Next.js to qualify for even an OA, when Nextjs didn’t even exist 10 years ago. Complete bullshit. How are entry level people suppose to start their life like this?

Don’t get me started on these retail jobs. They’re all automating their “interviews” by doing these one way video call of you speaking to yourself on camera which is bullshit because that’s such an easy way for them to discriminate you, they can see how you speak, if you have an accent, your race, how old you are, how young you are, before you even get to speak to a human. Fuck Target and everyone else who does this racist bullshit. Have you ever wondered why places like Target only hire white teenage girls, I have never seen any asian boys like me working there? This isn’t Microsoft, it’s just another minimum wage retail job that acts like they’re all fancy and stuff

Even Mcdonalds didn’t give me an actual interview. I did their 64 question “Psychometric Test” which is just another word for IQ test and still got ghosted.

Any minimum wage jobs that use fucking Workday like Nordstrom, Five Below, Walmart, etc there’s a 99% chance you’re wasting your time because they’ll just ghost you. Why the fuck do I need to make a brand new account for each job posts that use Workday when I KNOW I’ll be ghosted either way?

And before you suggest this, no I do not add my bachelors degree on these minimum wage job applications (in some cases you can’t either way if they have their own internal job application, you just submit your own contact info like phone number and email) since apparently everyone says these minimum wage jobs don’t want to hire people with degrees because “it makes you look like you’ll leave in 3 months when you find better opportunities”, which is total bolony because there are no better opportunities in this era, this job would be the best thing I ever have.

I’m doing everything I can to try to reduce ways for these people to discriminate against me, including adding an “American sounding” first name like Sam, since my government first name is a Thai name… If you ever seen Thai names, you know what I’m talking about

By the way, I live in the US, Michigan. No I do not require a sponsorship, I’m a US citizen thank you very much. The only indicator of why I’m being ghosted is because of my ethnic name which sounds Indian if you ever seen Thai names, which might make some of these employers have a bias but I don’t even know at this point..

I don’t care if these places pay me peanuts, I just want any job without being left on read so I can have them on my resume and maybe work my way up at that same place to where I want to be at the same company. Is it that hard to ask? I’m willing to sell my soul to these corporations if it means being paid salt and sugar as money at this point

Is anyone else in the same situation?