J Doe

No longer waking up wishing that I died in my sleep first thing in the morning. For now. But I can’t say that I’m better. Just stagnant. Might hear something from the two companies I interviewed for either the end of this week or next. I shouldn’t say I feel confident about it because knowing my luck I’ll just get another rejection. I guess that’s why I haven’t been trying real hard submitting application lately. I haven’t tried for a while.

The hertz fellowship application is due Friday. One of my references hasn’t turned in their […]

I’m doing it right now. I keep looking at my research proposal draft and not doing anything to it. I see all the comments left and it just turns me off. It’s all fair criticism, but at the same time it reminds me of how completely out of my depth I’d be in a PhD program. With enough effort, anybody could probably get a PhD degree. I’m just not one of those people to put in the effort. Meaningful effort anyways. I’ll probably not touch my draft today and say I’ll do it tomorrow and repeat the same […]

Interview I had today was ok I think. I hate how nervous I get. I say I don’t care about any of this, but I still care enough to not want to fail. It’s a stupid contradiction. Either way, it went ok I think and I drove 6 fucking hours back home with the last two hours in the dark. Sucked dick.

I realized this morning why my current depression felt so nostalgic. It’s the same depression I had when I was in high school. All my life I’ve been depressed, but I’ve been depressed for different […]

I’ve been talking less and less to people around me. Keep it brief and keep it light. I just haven’t felt the need to say anything. Don’t got anything to say.

This research proposal isn’t going well. Don’t got any ideas and it’s not even something I really want to research anyways. I thought I found something that would be interesting, but I’m not even sure there was anything there to begin with. Probably just a pointless dead end. I’d like to say that this is the reason for why I haven’t really worked on my research […]

I had my third interview with this defense drone company today. It went well. Makes me a little sick. The people are nice and well meaning. But I did not become an engineer to work for the department of defense. Especially not this administration’s DoD. This particular interview made that even more apparent. I guess I’m a hypocrite for trying to get a DoD fellowship so I could do my PhD. The research proposal of which is still crap by all means. But I was proposing a pipe inspection robot. To help with infrastructure. […]

Interview went pretty bad today. Was like 10 minutes long. I don’t give a fuck about tomorrow’s interview but I have to do it. I just don’t care anymore. It’s the middle of fucking October and I’m still here. I’m tired and I haven’t even done anything. I keep thinking all my problems would be solved if my heart just gave out when I slept. Or I had a brain aneurysm. Or I just get stabbed or something. I just don’t want to deal with this anymore. It’s pointless to continue on. Nothing to […]

There’s an episode of Gravity Falls where the characters fall down a bottomless pit. It’s one of those short story episodes where each character tells their own mini story. They did this because they were so incredibly bored while falling down the pit. I guess I understand that feeling. This whole situation is one bottomless pit and I’m falling down it. But I’m not scared or sad or angry. I’m just really fucking bored. Tomorrow I have my 12th job interview. I think it’s the 12th. I never counted. I don’t even want to be […]

On Saturday I went out of town with my mom to attend a concert that her distant cousin was preforming at and do a small marathon run the morning after. I just went to get out of the house. I wasn’t a problem the whole trip. I drove when asked, did what was asked of me, and just maintained an amicable disposition. Then out of no where my mom blind sides me about… I’m not even sure what. Something about not connecting with her or my father. Not being happy around them. I wasn’t doing anything to them. […]

Interviews went okish. Kinda screwed up the first one cause I was nervous and I actually kinda wanted this job. Second one went better but not by much. I immediately got a follow up for the second one though so that’s something. Sucks that it’s a defense company. I am in no position to be on my high horse and say that I’m too good to be working for those companies, but it’d be nice if the stuff I made didn’t end up getting people killed. It’s a technical interview with multiple parts so I’ll probably screw it up […]

Got a couple more interviews this week and next. I feel like nothing comes from them though. I bumble my way through questions I don’t understand, they say I did good and end the meeting, then they either ghost me or tell me no (which ghosting does too, but less direct.). I needed to email a follow up to two interviews from two weeks ago. One just finished doing all their interviews and needs to make a decision and the other said they weren’t interested. Would they have told me if I didn’t follow up with them? Probably not. […]

Still living with my parents. Still don’t have a job yet. Had 5 interviews in the past two weeks. I already told the technician job no. Just got a bad vibe from it. Seemed like a dead end job I’d be stuck at for years. Didn’t go to my interview for McDonald’s. Parents told me not too. Apparently I’m too good for McDonald’s? But not for Costco. I have no idea what they want and honestly I don’t care. I just really didn’t want to be a cashier again. Right now best […]

So yesterday I was complaining about how I just wanted something to happen already. Well something did. They’re offering me that crappy technician job in Austin that I didn’t want to interview for. The one with stripping cars all day long. The finger on the monkey paw curled. I’m trying to figure out which is worse. McDonald’s or technician job. I know I don’t want to do either. Technician job pays more (by like a handful of dollars an hour) and gets me away from my family. I don’t want to do either. But technician […]

I have an interview for McDonalds tomorrow. If they don’t take me that’d be pretty hilarious and sad. I really don’t want to work at fucking McDonald’s, but I need money and more importantly something to fucking do. It’s not like I spend all day looking for engineering jobs. I maybe spend like an hour a day on indeed and linkedin. The rest of the day I don’t do shit. Just rot in my room. I sure as shit don’t work on my fellowship applications. Man I really don’t fucking want to be a cashier again. […]

So I read the feedback. Or at least the big summary that one of them gave me. Made me realize I have to rewrite most of it. But I’ve been stuck on it. The main criticism was that I was basically proposing to small a thing. Something not worth considering PhD research. Which was true. All I really proposed were minor changes that could maybe fix the thing. Because that’s all I could think of. It needs to be this big novel change I’m proposing. But I can’t figure out anything. Best I could […]

I finally got feedback from my old labmates. After two weeks. They are busy people. Haven’t read it though. 26 and I still can’t take criticism. That’s pretty sad. I guess it also has to do with the fact that I’m just not feeling it. I don’t belong back there. I shouldn’t have made it as far as I did in the first place. I’ve repeated this so many times. There’s no point in me trying for fellowships when I think about it. But then I give my friend such a hard time about how […]

I haven’t been leaving my room these past few days. I still go out to eat and bath and stuff, but mostly I’ve just holded myself up in this room. Feels like the world outside it is dead. And that the only thing there is is in this room. Barely done anything this week. Maybe turned in a handful of applications. Started applying for part time jobs locally cause that’s what my mom wants. For some reason I find this insulting. I’d like to tell myself that I’m not above doing a job at Walmart, but maybe […]

I’m at that point where I can’t stand to be around my family. I knew I had a time limit before both my family and I would get like this. I was hoping to be out of here by now. I need solitude. I don’t function with other people. I never have. When I’m depressed alone, I can be alone. When I’m angry alone, I can crash out however I like. When I’m happy alone, I can do whatever I want. If for whatever reason I need people (unlikely), I’ll go look for them. I […]

Losing out on that job did more to me than I’d like to admit. I think I was genuinely excited to be going back and living in Boston. Coupled with more disappointment on the PhD front, this week has felt like a thousand years. At least I’ve been getting good sleep. But that’s only because my body really doesn’t want to get up. 8+ hours to feel dead. I think that’s why us depressed people love sleeping. We don’t have to be ourselves for that time. I always say this, but you never remember the exact feeling […]

Things keep looking bleaker and bleaker. I didn’t get this job I was real excited for. Lab technician up in Boston. Wanted to work in a lab again. Apparently I was in the top 3. I was also overqualified. Probably what did me in. Might be arrogant to say that. Was pretty bummed. Now I have to dive back into the hellscape of looking for a job. Got like 3 calls today at least for an interview for technician roles and automation engineer. Overqualified again for that technician job. Failed the automation engineer […]

All these plans and I probably don’t have what it takes to see even half of them come true. Had a job interview today. Was about an hour and half. Went ok until it didn’t. Pretty bad at answering engineering questions. The stuff I would be doing. You could tell they weren’t exactly impressed. No big deal. Not really that interested in the job anyways. I was a lot less interested before the interview because I didn’t understand somethings, but still not something I’m super excited to be working on. Doubt I’ll get a call […]