A blog about music in Pittsburgh

Not too long ago, I spent several months deep in the trenches of a brutal job hunt during an absolutely terrible hiring market. I sent out hundreds of applications and resumes. In return? A massive pile of automated rejections, endless silence, and getting flat-out ghosted by companies I was qualified to work for. It was exhausting, frustrating, and mentally draining to stay positive when it felt like throwing words into a digital void. To survive it, I had to stop spray-and-