Episode 3: Going Through Big Change is Lonely. The Pull is What I Focus On.
Jenny's first layoff happened in 2025, her seventh job search since grad school, and the scariest one she'd ever faced. But the hardest part wasn't unemployment. It was watching her family pack their bags for Monday morning while she had nothing waiting for her.
In this episode of Dots and Dreams, Jenny gets honest about the year she spent navigating the job market in 2025, the self-doubt, the AI-generated rejection emails on Friday evenings, the well-meaning friends who told her to enjoy her time off. She shares the three things that actually helped her stop feeling alone in it. Not therapy…
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