[dapplicant]

First of all I appreciate what you've written in this thread. It sounds like we've had similar experiences.

> To repeat: the reason you don't hear more of this is people don't like to announce they're a failing at "getting a job".

This is reassuring to hear. It's really easy for me to feel crazy and depressed with the constant rejections. Crazy because I'm constantly being told that I'm not able to do the exact things I've been praised for doing again and again in the past.

> I think your issue is you're playing by their rules

I think you're right. I need to try something else.

> What do you fill your time with, while you're job searching? I don't think you said.

I've kept to my workday routine every day since becoming unemployed. Interviewing takes up a lot of the time. Aside from that I have some side projects that I work on occasionally. However my computer was stolen during the move, and I lost a lot of early prototypes that hadn't yet made it to Github. Sometimes when I try to work on one of those projects I just get caught in depression feedback loop. I released (and sold out!) a record last week, so I'll spend some time this week making a small app to help me fulfill those orders.