I recently was on the hunt for a job. Not a career, though I would love to be on a hunt for that, but a "those bills are coming again next month" job. I started with expectations of what I would like to do and where I might like to do it. It then took on this momentum of what I was willing to do that I wasn't to crazy about, then it hit rock bottom at just give me a job any job please. Oh and a real fulltime or part time job like they once were known to be. You know that lovely 20 hours or 40 hours a week life. What really hit me was the process of looking for a job as we know it today. First you are literally as good as the electronic process allows you to be. What I mean by this is there is no more getting your foot in the door with that great personality that took so many years to develop. Businesses don't want to see you anymore unless they have first deemed you worth their time through the application process. That's the next thriller....the electronic application process. I decided with a heart of determination that I would fill out 8 applications a day until I got hired. Once I started filling out applications I realized I had to eat drink sleep and remove myself from the computer everynow and then to be sane, and the way the companies have designed these applications today.....you are lucky to get through one application in 45 minutes. The first parts are what you would expect with personal information, work history, educational background and so forth, but the psychological tests or the personality quiz or whatever they want to call it in the end is a crime. It really is...or at least it should be. First you go through answering a bunch questions that everyone is obviously going to put the favorable answers on. Questions like "I think expressing your frustrations every now and then is healthy" then they ask do you strongly agree, strongly disagree or you don't know. Who in their right mind that wants to get hired is going to put they strongly agree with that statement! Most people will say I strongly disagree knowing they vent distraught injustice at least once a week. I once had to answer a question that asked me "What do you value more a happy customer or a job that values your personal life?"What kind of a question is that? Then I put a happy customer because I wanted any job so bad and I spent the rest of the night feeling like a cheap sell out that just compromised my dignity for a possible dollar.