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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2025
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 "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You took it…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
- Your soft launch was a hand in a photo. The hard launch never came.…
- Money can't buy happiness. You'll never have enough to check.
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
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