Getting the degree used to be the plan. Now people are filming themselves right after the layoff call, after the four hundredth application, after the interview where they were told the role had already been filled.
A Google offer that lasted three years. Sixteen months unemployed and a nine-year career gone. A bachelor’s degree and a rejection from Target. A new grad nurse who cannot get hired during a nursing shortage. Hundreds of applications for one interview. A 24-year-old CPA laid off from her first real job. Someone laid off twice in fourteen months. An offer letter that never arrived. A candidate told halfway through the interview that the position was already taken. 23,000 jobs lost in July and unemployment at 4.1%. A 39-year-old with three kids and a mortgage deciding to build his way out instead of applying again. And a woman who simply stopped applying, because it does not feel like it leads anywhere.
Every clip is a real person, filmed on their own phone, in their own words. Nothing here is staged, and none of it is unusual – that is the part worth sitting with.