I hope the title is not clickbait (because I am against clickbait).
Yes, I am currently unemployed since August 16, 2024. I made this decision to take a break from my previous job both mentally and physically. Also, after the break, I began to analyze my previous job with a fresh mind and began to take care of myself. Let me clarify right away that I did not start taking care of myself in terms of doing sports (yes, I am quite fat), but I started taking care of myself (or started trying to) trying to restructure my thinking more towards taking care of myself. For those who are interested in reading what I think about my thinking and my behavior, I wrote it down at the end of this post.
So, I have been unemployed for quite a while now and most of this time I was thinking and analyzing my former job and myself. At first, yes, I was resting and I felt very comfortable and great, but this is exactly what my planned rest for such a long time is about. Some time after the end of my planned vacation (somewhere around September 20), I analyzed my condition and came to the conclusion that I still wanted to rest and set myself an additional deadline until about October 15 to conduct another self-analysis around this time. And this time I guessed right with the date. It was October 18 and I had already begun to notice that I wanted to start doing something for myself and for those around me, I wanted to return to a place where I could see people's smiles and joy, that their computers and software were working (yes, I worked as a system administrator for these very reasons). And I also began to notice that I had finally stopped overeating and started to lose weight. I do not argue that in addition to completely getting rid of stress, negative thoughts and normalizing sleep, I also additionally changed my diet (I made powdered food like Soylent my main food, but I continue to eat tasty food often) and all this together gave me the opportunity to start monitoring my weight and even reduce it. In addition to everything described above, I thought about consciously studying the situation with employers, with Generation Z and other things related to the search for my future new job. For myself, I found out that all the negativity that employers, applicants, and Generation Z say about each other is all true, but not in the radical paradigm in which they are discussed.
During this very interesting study of this topic, I have found out for myself a number of the following statements:
1) Yes, recruiting is really broken and broken on both sides
2) Yes, there is still a problem of absolutely inadequate vacancies with +100500 knowledge of future employees and +100500 responsibilities of employees, who are the majority in the labor market and the situation is only getting worse
3) HR managers also quite often lie about employers and working conditions
4) HR managers and employers greatly inflate their expectations from future employees (especially newcomers)
5) Job seekers in huge numbers send out their vacancies everywhere, which also multiplies the workload of all HR managers and this is a very bad practice
6) Due to points 2 and 4, employees increasingly lie about their capabilities and work experience, which only worsens the possibility of hiring more qualified employees into the company
7) The labor market is flooded with fraudulent vacancies with high salaries, which only benefits job search sites like headhunter
8) Generation Z has truly stopped tolerating the brutal attitude of employers that their parents had
9) Generation Z actually has a relatively large number of people who do not want to work or develop professionally
10) Something else, but I forgot
11) ...
Yes, there are problems on all three sides. Yes, the hiring methods are broken, no one wants to do anything about it and the problems are growing like a snowball rolling down a mountain. Yes, adequate employers with better working conditions prefer to look for people on social networks or through acquaintances, because the usual methods of hiring employees are broken, including due to the behavior of online recruitment platforms. Yes, the new generation will not tolerate bad attitudes towards themselves and the easy time for employers is ending faster and faster. And yes, the demographic crisis in the form of a huge number of newcomers is becoming more and more serious.
Having analyzed my previous job, I think that in the future I will also not tolerate 2 whole years of problems at work.
To give you an idea, the problems were as follows:
1) Outdated hardware 10+ years old or 20+ years old that really needs to be replaced
2) Complete lack of software and operating system updates (which is why the problems are still getting worse)
3) A huge number of workarounds due to untimely updates, software that is not suitable for the needs, temporary solutions or saving on software that no one wants to fix even after a long time
4) The work of 3 full-fledged departments
5) The task is distributed between several completely unrelated departments (meaning that it started as help, but turned into a permanent job)
6) The philosophy of “if it works, don't touch it” (right now at my previous job the problems are getting worse due to this philosophy)
7) Colleagues do not want to work and constantly push tasks onto each other
8) No one undertakes to do dangerous work on updating systems
9) Complete lack of documentation even on the installed server hardware
Today, I believe that if I encounter at least two problems from this list of problems that I have encountered, I will need to immediately notify my employer of my dismissal and immediately quit even if I do not work in this company for even a month. My experience, which I have gained in all my previous jobs, shows that any of the points on my list will not change in any company and, just like the entire Z generation (regardless of what all people from 30 to 50 years old say), I no longer intend to tolerate such working conditions.
I think I will end my post here, since this post has already turned out to be incredibly long and I myself did not plan to write so much text. Anyone interested in my thoughts on self-analysis is welcome below in this post.
What I think about my thinking and behavior, if anyone is interested
About my thinking and behavior. For me, worrying and caring about others is a very weak point and I very often, if not always, try to please people around me even to my own detriment. Attempts to restructure my thinking towards greater egoism towards others come from both the analysis of what happened at my previous job, and from the fact that from the analysis of my previous job I began to notice in my environment that absolutely no one spends more time on someone than necessary, and if people consider it necessary to take an extra rest or do their chores around the house, then they do it without chasing after communication, which, by the way, I respect very much. Over time, I have a fairly small number of people left with whom I can really talk, and for me it is a huge problem to find a suitable circle of people with whom I can just sit and talk in the company of people, since it is my habit to almost immediately break off communication with people I do not like (too much swearing, insults, constant whining about their life, insults to people behind their backs, outright ignoring, etc.). All these actions of people listed in brackets hit me quite hard even if all this is not directed at me (mostly outright ignoring is directed at me). All this makes me think about restructuring my behavior towards selfishness, because being kind to others works less and less. And all this environment makes me look at all sorts of bloggers, streamers and Vitubers from the side of selling myself as a person in order to build the environment around me that I want to see and with whom I will really want to communicate without any pretentious nicknames or insults behind other people's backs and from time to time (while I am still unemployed and while I have all the strength for this) I think about returning to creating videos and streaming. Yes, I have already tried to do this more than once, but the main problem of failure here is the lack of time to create at least some activity around myself and this put a lot of pressure on me from time to time, forcing me to stop doing all this. In general, I will most likely soon try to stream simply and without pretentiousness once again, but this time I will try to stream everything in a row.