Trying to find a job right now honestly feels brutal. Like truly brutal. Like you are standing in the middle of a huge empty room yelling your name and it just disappears into the air. You send the resume. You double check the PDF. You upload it again because the site crashes. You refresh your inbox five minutes later even though you know nothing could have happened yet. You refresh it again anyway. Nothing.
And if you are in tech right now it somehow feels even worse. Every posting has that little counter next to it. Applicants. Two hundred. Five hundred. A thousand. Sometimes more. You see that number and your stomach actually drops a little. Like physically. Because suddenly it is not just you and a company anymore. It is you versus this massive crowd of people who are probably smart and experienced and desperate too. You are one tiny dot in a giant pile and you cannot stop thinking about that.
It gets really hard to believe anyone is actually looking at what you send. You tweak your resume a hundred times. You move one bullet point up. You change a verb. You rewrite the summary again. You watch three YouTube videos about how recruiters scan resumes. You run it through tools. You customize it for the role. And it still feels like it does not matter. You write a cover letter that sounds honest and human and not like a robot. You talk about why you care about the company. Why the role fits you. You read it back and think okay this one is good. This one feels real. And then nothing happens. No reply. No rejection. Just silence. It starts to feel like the system is built in a way where you never really get seen at all.
People keep telling you just keep applying. Just keep going. Just trust the process. And sure that advice makes sense on paper. But when you are already tired it hits different. When you are already doing this every single day. When it is become part of your routine to wake up and check listings and send applications and refresh your email and repeat. When weeks go by and still nothing. That advice can start to feel hollow. Like yeah okay I am doing that. I have been doing that. What else am I supposed to do.
The worst part honestly is feeling invisible. That is the thing that messes with you the most. Because deep down you know you have skills. You know you can learn fast. You know you would show up and do the work and care about it. You know you could be valuable to a team. But none of that seems to matter if no one ever gives you the chance to prove it. It starts to mess with your confidence. You start wondering if you are missing something obvious. If everyone else knows a secret you do not. If you are behind somehow even when you have been grinding for years.
And it is not even just about money. Sure you need a paycheck. Everyone does. But it is bigger than that. It is about wanting to be part of something real. Wanting to build things with other people. Wanting to work on problems that matter. Wanting to belong to a team and feel useful and proud of what you are doing. When you cannot even get in the door anywhere it starts to mess with your head in a way that is hard to explain unless you are in it. It makes the days feel heavier. It makes every rejection or silence sting just a little more.
There is not some magical simple answer to all of this. If there was everyone would be shouting it from the rooftops. But one thing really does help. Real connection. Actual humans who know you. People who have talked to you. Worked with you. Met you. People who can vouch for you because they have seen what you can do. People who can say hey this person is real and they care and they are good at what they do.
Job boards are full of noise. Endless scrolling. Endless listings. Endless competition. The people are where the signal is. Conversations. Coffee chats. Events. Intros. Messages that turn into real talks instead of automated replies. That is where things actually start to change. That is where Thawe matters. It is built to help you meet real professionals nearby. Not influencers. Not faceless profiles farming clicks. Real people. Builders. Engineers. Founders. Creators. People you could actually run into in your city. Build trust with. Create relationships with. The kind that lead to real opportunities. Not random applications. Not endless silence.
And if you are in this right now. If you are in the middle of it and it feels heavy and exhausting and frustrating. You are not alone. So many people are quietly going through the same thing every day. You are not broken. You are not behind. The system is just heavy right now. Keep going. Keep talking to people. Keep showing up even when it feels pointless some days. The door does open. Sometimes slower than it should. But it does.
You are still in this. And that matters.