Well over a hundred applications, she wrote — she had stopped counting. Multiple interviews. One process she had thrown everything into, only to be ghosted after four rounds.
She has a job already, in north-east Florida, but it is awful, and she had been hating it. What she wanted was to get back to the Chicago area — to relocate toward something better. For a long while, nothing.
Then it came: a federal contract role. The move she had been trying to make.
Her message to anyone hoping to relocate was not to give up. The companies had tried all the tricks, she said, but there is one that will genuinely want you. The subreddit, she added, had been the thing that kept her going in a market that had otherwise felt closed.