I am so happy nobody has said “network”. Hate that word.
Networking? I feel we could leverage our synergy in that regard. 
I figured as much…everything I’ve submitted so far has been in PDF format. I had thought that PDFs are the current accepted format, but I keep seeing references on career sites that indicate that Word documents are preferred because they’re easily searchable by the file system used in most large companies. This had confused me, because the PDFs I’m generating are searchable in Acrobat, Mac Preview, and Windows Reader.
Back to soul-crushing things: Six Sigma, Black Belt, Kaizen, and various other quality programs whose requirements are presented in such a way that you just know you’re going to turn into a buzzword-spewing drone by your second month of employment.
“You just gotta put yourself out there ya know?”
Why shouldn’t they?
It doesn’t need to be as extreme as that. If the next guy has similar credentials and isn’t trying to perform that difficult balancing act (or even, just hasn’t said so), he’s a safer choice for them.
Complain about the word all you want but there’s almost no other way to get a decent job these days. Every good job I’ve had was the result of relationships I’ve developed over the years that would clue me in on openings and put in a good word for me here or there.
What is the primary purpose of these relationships? Is it social? Or is it so they’ll think of you when there’s a job opening? To me only the latter is networking. The other is called having friends, and I would agree that friends are the best source of job information. The problem is not all of us are blessed with friends like that.
Heck, I’ve gotten some pretty good job tips from people I’d only known for a day, and probably wouldn’t see again.
I just wanted to ask… What is your greatest weakness?
Well, I would have to say that my greatest weakness is that I work too hard. gag 
Ehh . . . you’re a liability. I don’t won’t someone working themselves to death in the office.
I have to pitch in with bump. Online dating isn’t nearly as bad.
Don’t get me wrong; it’s bad. Online dating was something I found kind of depressing, at least until I found my fiancee. But a job search is worse.
The thing with online dating is that unless you’re very stupid or unbelievably attractive, you come to expect failure. But the failure is pretty much limited to how much time you’re spending online; once you close the Match.com window and go do something else, you’re doing something else. When I was trying online dating it was depressing for maybe an hour a week. And it was sometimes fun, or funny, or both. Then if you’re not online you’re at work, or at your Tuesday night bowling league, or playing Scrabble, or watching a movie.
But when you’re out of work and looking for a job it makes your life grey. You live your life with a clock in front of your eyes that counts down to when the money runs out. You think about it all the time, and every activity is tinged by it.
I never did online dating, but this is the most true statement in your post in my book.
It’s horrible when you literally can’t do anything because it makes you think of the fact that you don’t have a job.
I don’t want to sit on my ass and watch tv, but I can’t do anything else because things cost money that I don’t have, I even hated doing things I loved by myself (playing video games mostly) because…what else do I have to do? It’s 6:30, I’ve sent 50 applcations online what the hell do I ahve to do for 4 hours until I go to bed and start this stupid process over again