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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Technical_Ear_4339 on 2025-08-03 08:36:32+00:00.

I feel so depressed job-wise. There is a new restaurant opening literally a few minutes’ walk from where I live. I waited for applications to open, attended a recruitment session for it, stated that I could work any day of the week, any hours they wished, and I still received a rejection letter without even having been afforded a one-on-one interview. What do they even want…? Sometimes, I genuinely feel as though I am in a simulation which has designated my role to be the permanently unsuccessful person who will never succeed.

I momentarily considered the idea of joining the police this morning, just to get some sort of career, and their website stated that the recruitment process took six to nine months. Oh okay, I’ll just put my life on hold and do nothing for the better part of a year then. After all, it’s not as though a human lifespan is measured in years; there’s no rush…

All those years growing up, going to school, going to university, and this is the end result. It’s so utterly depressing. I feel like it’s all been for nothing. What makes it even worse is that I look around at my former friends on Facebook and they all seem to have been able to find careers and prosper. Again…my mind turns to being in a simulation, which I do not want to believe because obviously that’s crazy…