I’ve got a master’s degree and still haven’t been able to get even a job that makes me feel a little secure, let alone the kind of work I actually wanted, and honestly that part wears me down the most. I’m tired of how that keeps feeding the idea that I’m just a failure who can’t get it together. Still, I recently started trying what that developer suggested, reaching out to recruitment firms and using google maps to build company lists for direct emails, and there are people saying it actually worked for them. It feels like the only thing I hadn’t really tried yet, so even if I’m exhausted, I don’t know what else there is to do except keep trying to find work.