u/eidolaa

After 9 months, more than 800 applications, so many hours driving for Instacart and GrubHub, and a nervous breakdown I'll never forget at McDonald's at 9 AM, I can finally say I got a job. It's not my dream job, not even close. But is it a good job with a good salary, with opportunities for growth, fully remote, with reasonable hours, and it allows me to drop off and pick up my daughter from school every day? Absolutely.

To all the people who are still struggling, my heart is with you. Just last Tuesday morning, I was at my sister's place, completely dejected after being rejected from a job I was very excited about, and an hour later I got another rejection for one I thought was a sure thing. Now, as I head into the weekend, I'm excited to fill out the new hire paperwork on Monday.

Stay strong. I know how hard it is, but don't you ever give up.

When our oldest son was born, my husband and I sat down to calculate if daycare costs were worth it or if one of us should stay home. It turned out that after paying for daycare and all his work-related expenses (gas, lunch, new shirts, etc.), his job would only bring in an extra $6,000 a year. So we decided it was a no-brainer for him to quit his job and stay home for a few years.

He wrote his resignation letter, planned to give them three weeks' notice, and started quietly packing up his desk. The next day, he had a one-on-one meeting scheduled on his calendar where he was going to resign. He went into the meeting, and before he could even open his mouth, his manager told him they were eliminating his position.

In the end, they gave him eight weeks of severance and covered our health insurance for four months. He came home dying of laughter. It was perfect. Anyway, he stayed home for about six years, and for the first 20 months of that, he was collecting unemployment benefits. When he went back to work, he started at a small company owned by an old man, he entered the interview, which was a long process around 5 or 6 rounds. But what was a life saver for him was a tool he used that organized his answers a lot and gave him confidence, and that's why he was mainly accepted for, for his confidence. After around 3 years, the man wanted to sell the company, and we ended up buying the business from him, and my husband now makes four times what he did at his old job. It's still one of our favorite stories to this day.

a wise woman once said: anything is possible when a person lies

It finally happened.

What's the best getting fired story you've heard? I'll start.