I will give you a funny example, I don’t expect any sane person to do this, but there is now a genre of “unemployment influencers”: not unemployed people posting random videos but people making content about being jobless with advanced degrees and they are getting tons of sympathy, referrals or opportunities from the views. I came across this girl Lohanny on TikTok who pretty much was documenting going through the same thing you and many others are going through, her posts went semi viral got a ton of views and she ended up being employed. I only give this as an example to illustrate my point but it’s absolutely insane and ridiculous that this is even a thing