its really funny having job search woes and then complaining to my mom about it and then her telling me "yeah your dad had some of the same complaints" or "i worked that kind of job as a college dropout what do you mean theyre asking for that kind of degree for it now"
like for the first one its not something ive seen personally so far but i've seen it happen to other people. my dad worked in IT, for context. its those listings where it's asking "10 years experience in this programming language" when the programming language has only existed for like 5 years. so it's hilarious (and sad) hearing secondhand that it also happened in the 90s
the second one happened because i was looking for possible data entry clerk jobs, and it turns out one of the various jobs my mom worked before having children was as a data entry clerk. one of the listings was straight up asking for a non-specific bachelor's degree. my mom is a college dropout. so was my dad, actually.
job market's weird and also fucked.
