Being a job seeker carries with it considerable stressors. These are understandable.

• Unpredictability
  • Hard to create a time frame, dependent on response/opportunity
• Low sense of worth in social contexts
  • People will often ask you hard to answer questions
  • Well meaning people will offer comfort and advice
    • Comfort can feel condescending
    • Advice can feel unapplicable
• Feeling of shame
• Putting on an optimistic mask in a dreary period
• Financial trouble
• Feeling of standing still, inertia
  • Falling behind?
• Fear of inability