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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2021
You put "open to work" on LinkedIn.
Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were bots. The sixth was your ex, checking you're doing worse.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- Your fitness journey started on the second of January. It ended on the fourth.…
- Mondays aren't so bad. They're just Sundays that opened their bank statement.
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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