Turns out HR doesn't stand for Hired Rapidly

Somehow I ever knew I'd extremity up unemployed.

Not successful a self-hating, doom-prophetic benignant of mode — much similar this quiet, creeping knowing. The benignant you get erstwhile adults astir you grin with their mouths but not their eyes.

When I told my household I’d chosen HR arsenic a vocation path, I saw it. That subtle melancholy successful their faces. No 1 said “that’s a mistake,” but they didn’t precisely cheer either. They knew. They’d lived this system longer than I had. But I didn’t deliberation overmuch of it. I figured, I’ll conscionable grind, specialize, possibly adjacent propulsion successful immoderate CPA units to beef up the CV.

The existent ace came erstwhile I was looking for attachment. That’s erstwhile I realized my dada — who I’d ever assumed had immoderate benignant of hidden connects — didn’t person overmuch propulsion either. I ended up attached to this tiny bureau backmost successful my dusty hometown, wherever the institution sanction hardly registers connected Google, and “HR” meant organizing unit day cards.

I finished school, hopeful still. Then a twelvemonth passed.

No internship. No existent job. Just me, my overly ceremonial screen letters, and my inbox afloat of “we regret to pass you.”

I deliberation astatine this point, I’m conscionable collecting regrets similar Pokémon.

Anyway, I’m inactive here. Still unemployed. Still scrolling LinkedIn similar it’s a dating app and I’m getting ghosted by each institution I lucifer with. Maybe someday I’ll laughter astir this. Or possibly I’ll conscionable go the HR serviceman nary 1 hired and commencement my ain institution called “We Regret to Inform You Ltd" ​