Interviewing or Dating?

Job hunting is like going on dates. You send over a message and hope they respond. Most of them ignore you — rude. Some of them flat out reject you with a cold message — OK, I wasn’t that interested in you either. A few of them like what they see and arrange a call with you. Once they’ve established that you’re a seemingly normal human being, you coordinate a date. You dig through your closet for an appropriate outfit and make a mess in your room. You give yourself 2 hours to ensure your makeup is on point. Your stomach knots and unties itself every 2 minutes and you pep talk yourself into believing that it’s not that serious.

Sometimes you leave the date feeling dazed, unsure of how time passed so quickly and wish you had flirted a little more aggressively. Sometimes you leave the date feeling like you’re the most worthless person and you curl up in bed and stay there for 3 days. Sometimes you leave date feeling pretty confident there was a spark in those 60 minutes. You decide to send over another message. Hey, I really enjoyed our time together today. Meet up next week? Now you play a waiting game. It’s the worst part of dating because you have no control over the situation. You find yourself getting too emotionally invested and try to step back because you don’t want to get too hurt. Do I already know he isn’t the right guy, again?

“Sorry, met another girl.”