Job seeking Blk girls, how we feeling?

Q4 and this entire year in general has not been nice on us job seekers. Some of us got laid off/fired and some of us are still searching for our first career role. No matter the case, we’re not the only ones going through it. What are some difficulties (and possible silver linings) y’all are finding in your job search? What are some ways y’all are counteracting the job searching blues, especially around this time of year?

I’ll start: I started my job search in April of this year, a month before I had graduated from college. So far, I have over 1200+ rejections since then. I have gotten some interviews but I usually either got ghosted or rejected in the last round. As expected, this gutted my confidence by a lot. I fell into some dark places and almost relapsed into SH multiple times throughout the process. However, the surprising upside to this is that I realized I intertwined so much of my self worth into career and academics that I don’t really know who I am outside of that. In order to cope and grow out of this, I’ve decided to attend more hobby groups and meet ups whilst I’m applying to prevent the self isolation. I’m also planning on making a 2025 non career related bucket list of things I would like to work towards the next year to feel like I have some direction.