Ugh you guys okay so Bad news: my hubs got laid off again a few months ago. Good news: we are handling it better than last time 🤪. Spoiler before the ramble: I’m not about to ask for help lmao plz do not help 🥲🫶🏻. Love yall. If you’re the praying sort, though, please do pray for us. Anyway, yall know how I felt about LLMs already, but I hate them even harder because the CFO at his company literally just ✨asked Claude✨ if he should cut the marketing dept and replace them with an agency and then did what the robot told him to do. Didn’t even talk to anyone’s bosses about it. Hubs boss was upset, even. Listen, I know “it’s just business” but I’m just so tired of everyone’s dysfunction. I could lay it all out for you. The jacked up dynamics at that company - the particular madnesses of the C-suite and their gaps in communication. I see it clearly and I wish I didn’t because what’s the point?? But anyway, I won’t. No one needs to read all that. 🤪 Our runway has been perilously short. It be like that. J (it feels weird to use hub first initial bc Luinalaska has a J 😂😂. I wonder if her J is the same J as my J - though they are certainly very different men except for the fact that they both love their wives really well) hit the ground running. A billion applications sent. Interviews on interviews. He has a group of colleagues that practice presentations and do mock interviews together and encourage each other. I’m so proud of him for that. There have been so many interviews. One day, he had 4 interviews back to back with 4 diff companies. He’s made it through 4 rounds, 5 rounds a few times and still didn’t get those jobs. Most recently, he went through 6 rounds of interviews with a company he would love to work for, followed by an email (I wish I could share it lol - yall could see 😭) that SUPER sounded like the meeting scheduled for today was going to be an offer-meeting. But guess what? SURPRISE! ANOTHER INTERVIEW!! That makes seven rounds of interviews for that company. SEVEN 😭😭😭. It went great though. They didn’t reject him - we are just still waiting to find out if they choose him. He has some contract work, thank goodness, and we are cobbling some things together. Don’t worry for us 💜. But do please offer a prayer for favor this time if you think of it. I really thought we were going to be out of the woods today and I don’t even know if it’s reasonable to feel so discouraged. Could be I’m just really tired and ought to be going to bed now 🫠