[benjijay]

How do you maintain motivation to keep applying to jobs when tracking with data like this? After seeing countless posts on r/dataisbeautiful or similar where people detail number of applications > number of replies > interviews > eventual success, I tried for myself in the last hunt - and then stopped tracking it once I got to around line 55 in the spreadsheet and only 3 responses - all automated rejections

Eventually figured out it was more worth my time to just go with whatever recruiters were reaching out that week

[shsachdev]

Full disclosure: I did this as an experiment for an article (https://www.careerfair.io/online-maze) and as such my motivation to keep applying was driven by the piece of content I was creating. In addition, a lot of the time I wouldn't actually press the "submit" button - I would just stop my timer. Again, my goal was to create a cool, accurate piece of content that could spark interesting discussion, which did end up happening (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753292).