When It Comes To Job Hunting, It’s About Knowing What You Don’t Want

There was a time when searching for a job was a time-sensitive endeavor that would yield results that hopefully lasted long enough to incite the need for a career boost, either internally or at a better suited competitor.

But looking back, it’s almost revolutionary to recall how we made ambitious decisions based on longevity and accumulated skill set. We can’t even fathom replicating those moves in this volatile period of economic upheaval, that’s falsely packaged by a criminalized administration as the healthiest temperature for the stock market since its creation.

While the president’s favored daughter and so-called “senior adviser,” Ivanka Trump, consistently litters her Twitter page with tweets and retweets that are aimed to debunk the rumors of the incoming recession, that was borne from the duress of an erratic job market, that features the over-worked and grossly underpaid, as well as those meddlesome tariffs — the American workers and job seekers are tragically bearing the brunt of a fiery climate that has no intention of simmering down.

I’ve spent a whole two years navigating the treacherous terrain of the workforce as a somewhat employed writer, who has to patiently sift through the garbage of poorly paid gigs and the highlighted items that insist on asking for…