Am I unemployable?

As this is a sub about writing, and because I don't personally know you, I'm going to describe what I see as though it was written by a character in a story. I will call this character Charlie. What I write may well not reflect on you directly, but this is what I'd think of a character that wrote this in a book.

Charlie is delusional. Hopelessly, naively delusional, but his main problem is his ego and the way it comes across to people. From everything that Charlie says, it's evident that he has a lot of pride and self belief but more worryingly, he doesn't understand other people.

Having not worked for the 5 years since he left college, Charlie expects that after just 2 weeks trying to get a job, he would be gifted with one and has resolved that having spent 2 weeks working at applying for jobs that maybe he's not employable. It's not clear what Charlie has been spending his time doing since he left college, but none of the possibilities are anything that would encourage me to hire him.It should be obvious to him that a 5 year CV gap does severely limit his employment options, but he appears oblivious.

Charlie declares that he's done some things like record his friend's band (bafflingly, he considers the band's later success somehow to be his own handiwork) and he once contacted an investor he saw on TV. Charlie probably lives in something of a dream world where he considers these things important, and thinks that other people will be impressed by them. They won't, of course, because in the course of a normal working week, most people would do things that are more important than this, multiple times. He doesn't really get that, though. Charlie has a significant problem in understanding what other people are like.

Charlie finishes his piece with an inspirational message... about how he has just had an epihphany and feels he needs to tell other people who write, that they should write. Again, it's that same self important delusion. It is perhaps a shame that he didn't think of it 5 years before.

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