Quick update

Like when you’re on your 9th interview with a company and it turns out to be an unpaid assignment that becomes their intellectual property once you’ve finished presenting it to a panel of stakeholders you’ll never see or even speak to again, I’ve reached my limit.

But not to worry. Me reaching my limit is less like the above - which feels like something that was probably part of joining The Party in George Orwell’s 1984 - and more like reaching a destination. Home, maybe. And once you’re home, you’re done. No more travelling - until the next adventure, anyway. (More on that in a moment.)

Anyway, the limit I’ve reached is this: I’m done with creating job search content - at least in the way I’ve been doing it for the past 18 months. *a man in the front row faints*

Why? I’ve said all I can say. If I wrote anything else I’d only be repeating myself. There are nearly 50 articles posted on the newsletter homepage and I’ve written and published an entire job search course, not to mention hundreds of LinkedIn posts. That’s an entire book’s worth of content. (If anyone wants to publish it and give me an advance that’s more-handsome-than-handsome-Squidward, slide in the DMs.)

Going forward, I’ll be sending out one email per month with some kind of satirical short story about the job search or corporate life in general. This new newsletter will be called the following: Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Shareholders?

(Someone has to, you know. I say we take that glorious burden for ourselves.)

I’ve been experimenting with these kinds of posts on LinkedIn for the last month and it seems like people - you, maybe? - are enjoying it:

(If you want to read the full posts, go here.)

At this point, you might be thinking, “Yeah I’m gonna unsubscribe from this.” And that’s totally fair and fine and yeah whatever just do it then I guess.

No but I get it. You signed up for job search content and now I won’t be doing that - not in the same way, anyway. All past content will always be on the newsletter homepage and the job search course will be there for at least the rest of the year. You can unsubscribe and still access those.

Perhaps, though, we all just need a bit of comic relief from time to time. Even if something can be hard and brutal and demoralising, we can still laugh at it. Perhaps especially if something can be hard and brutal and demoralising, we should laugh at it. Take some power back.

But again, I appreciate you signed up for a specific type of job search content so please do feel free to unsubscribe. In fact, I’ll make it easy:

• To unsubscribe, do absolutely nothing. I’ll do it for you.

• To stay subscribed - as mentioned above the newsletter will now be called “Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Shareholders?” - and receive one email per month with a short, satirical story about the job search and corporate life, click below:

Cheers,
Matt

PS I owe you a picture of Teddy, since it’s been a while: