Day 23 October 23rd 10:50 PM

Food Eaten: Travel sized complex salad, sesame seeds, dates, hemp shake, olives, bananas
Quality of Life: Learning how to spit sesame seed shells. Almost not grossed out by it.
Physical Activity Level: See above.
Raw Food Percentage: 100%

Ugh, I hate filling out job applications. I particularly hate filling out online job applications. I never understand this, I fill out my education, work experience, marketable skills and references on the form. Then I attach a resume containing the same information in a different format.

I know why they do this of course. Their online application is searchable, so the HR dude can just fill out a form of his requirements and it'll pop through the data base and find him everyone who's applied in the last 6 months who qualifies. Its just there's something a little dehumanizing about being broken down to an index of my achievements. Dehumanizing and disappointing given it doesn't add up to much.

Aswell, I'm at the mercy of how flexible the database tags are. Do they interpret my degree as a boon for communication and organization skills, or writing and research skills, or did they just forget to put it in altogether? Do my previous jobs link up with the skills they think it requires to do them? Laying aside the fact that I'm commodified, am I being traded fairly on the market?

With a human being reading a resume she can get a picture of what your skills and abilities are by looking at your work experience and education as a whole, something that a searchable database may lack.

Anyhow, I'm mostly just frustrated cause my useless degree is useless. And frightened by a not too distant future where I submit my whole biography and it spits out a little slip of paper that says: "Dishwasher".