Have you, those that are searching/have searched, found that searching for a job can feel like a full time job?

When you’re looking for a job while you have a job, you try to find pockets here and there where you can search during the day, maybe you don’t have internet at home or you work from home and you search after hours, but still need to respond to emails when you can, sometimes take a call from a recruiter during the day.

It can be exhausting, especially if you’re not happy, so you’re being drained at work and then you have to look for postings online, used to be in the paper, well, you could still look in the paper, but the most popular way today is online. And it’s exhausting!

I was doing that during my last full time job, shhh, don’t tell. I would search on my personal laptop when I would take breaks talk to recruiters when they would call and after I moved to Colorado, since I kept my east coast hours, I was able to do a lot after 3pm MT, I would ask recruiters to call me after 3.

When you don’t have a job, you spend all day or at least a good part of it searching job boards, applying for jobs, answering emails from recruiters. Then you wait to hear back from them, send emails or call to follow up, is there any progress, are there any updates with the job/project/contract.

It’s amazing how exhausting it can be to search the net when you really don’t have anything else to do, haven’t you found that to be true as well? You’re on the net and all of a sudden, it’s three hours later and you’re not sure what you were doing, but you’re exhausted!