Okay, so it's been about two years. I'm officially in my late 20s. I don't know why but I've been itching to continue journaling again, so here I am. Just to catch you up on the past month... I had been wanting to quit my current company for awhile now. It's been years actually. But I really thought I was going to buckle down and apply to jobs soon after I got my master's degree. That was at the end of 2022. We're a quarter into 2024. I suck. In October 2023, my program lost the bid for the contract we had been working toward, so they laid off a bunch of subcontractors, as well as moved some of our own internal employees to another program. I was saved though because I'm cheap labor. But not for long. It was at that point I knew that I really needed to get serious. It was also just the perfect time to leave. And I genuinely did start applying for new jobs, like on LinkedIn and Glassdoor and what not. Got rejected almost immediately from all of them. Pro...