statistics

In my Outlook job search folder are 828 emails. I have a stack of applications 4” thick that I printed out before I abandoned printing and just started saving all the correspondence on the computer instead, along with an Excel worksheet.

From the beginning of my working life, until late 2008, all I had to do was apply for a job, and I got it.
More recently…

2005: three job applications, three interviews, hired.
2007: one job application, one interview, hired.
2008: three or four applications, that many interviews, hired.
October 2008 – July 2009: an estimated 50-75 job applications (at least two a week), three interviews.
July 2009 – present: 164 job applications, 10 interviews…..

I had hoped the interview of a week and a half ago would be my last…..apparently, it is not. The reject email arrived today.

Onward, then.