i Automated My Job Hunt Because Suffering is Optional

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a certain kind of despair unique to the modern job hunt. Not the despair of not finding work, that is a more ancient suffering, but the despair of the process itself. The nightmare of opening seventeen browser tabs, copy-pasting the same resume into a text box that will strip all its formatting anyway, writing a cover letter that begins “Dear Hiring Manager” because you don’t know who you’re writing to and honestly neither do they, and then refreshing your email for the next two weeks to learn, via a boilerplate rejection, that you were not “the right fit at this time.”

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i Automated My Job Hunt Because Suffering is Optional