Chapter 1: The Realization
It started innocently enough. A casual stroll through the local coffee shop, sipping on a latte and scrolling through job postings on my phone. But as the days turned into weeks, and the weeks into months, something inside me shifted. A sense of panic began to seep into my bones, like a slow-moving dread that I couldn't shake.
I stared blankly at my phone, the screen a blur of job descriptions and application forms. How could it be so hard to find a job that didn't make me want to scream?
I thought about all the jobs I had in the past, from retail to data entry. The ones that had been a grind, the ones that had been a soul-crusher. And I realized, with a jolt, that I had been going about this whole job search thing all wrong.
I needed a new approach. A new attitude. A new everything.
Phase 2: The Plan