So I left my job (data analyst) 2 years ago when I got pregnant and I've been a SAHM since. My husband works and honestly we don't need my income, but I've worked my whole adult life and sitting at home feeling useless has been eating at me. I'm just not used to taking money from someone else, even if that someone is my husband.

I'd heard from old coworkers that the job market is rough right now, which stressed me out. Funny thing is my husband doesn't even want me to work, he doesn't want me stressing myself out. But he basically went "ok sure, go look, if you find something then fine" ...clearly thinking I wouldn't find anything. Which somehow made me MORE anxious lol.

Since I've been out for 2 years I didn't want to jump straight into a full time office job, so I was only looking at remote stuff. And honestly I can't even say I seriously job searched?? I was super picky. A few people told me submitting your resume to talent networks helps with remote work, so about a month and a half ago I sent my resume out to some tech recruiters, applied to maybe 3-4 jobs total, and dumped my resume into a couple of talent networks. Even that I did through auto-submit on 1-2 sites because I was too lazy to do it one by one. I figured worst case I'd pick up some small/mid-size projects.

Well. 3 days ago I got an interview request out of nowhere, and today they sent an offer.

Here's the kicker: I was looking for REMOTE and the offer is HYBRID. As in, I'd actually have to go into an office. And now my anxiety is kicking in hard because I am NOT ready for that. I still haven't lost the baby weight and the thought of being back in an office right now makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

I haven't accepted yet. The pay is decent. But I do NOT want to go into an office. Like at all.

Am I insane for even considering turning this down given how bad the market supposedly is? What would you do?

(company is Brigit in NYC if that matters)

I've been paying jobscan for a few months now and the only feature I actually open it for is the ATS/match score. everything else just sits there

feels dumb paying $50 every month for basically one feature. I know there's stuff like teal, resume worded, enhancv etc but reviews are all over the place and half of them look like affiliate spam

so genuinely asking, what do you use to check if your resume passes ATS and matches the job description? free is ideal but I'd pay like $10-15 for something that just does this one thing well

lol what are we even doing anymore. listed as a fully remote job, decent pay, everything looks fine. scroll down and boom, "work from home → within 30 miles of [the office]."

so it's remote as long as you could technically drive in. got it.

I get that some companies want hybrid or need people in a certain state for tax reasons, whatever. fine. but then just SAY that in the listing?? instead thousands of people waste time applying to something they were never eligible for.

starting to feel like "remote" is just SEO bait for job boards at this point. anyone else running into this constantly or did I just get unlucky?

Been applying since march. 200+ applications, mostly data analyst roles (some BI analyst / reporting analyst stuff too). 4 yoe, SQL, Tableau, Python, the usual stack.

i run every resume through jobscan before applying and i don't send anything under 80% match. tailored resume for basically every posting. and still... 3 phone screens total, zero onsites. thats like a 1.5% response rate lol

things i've already done:

• single column ATS friendly format, no graphics no tables
• quantified bullets (increased X by Y% etc)
• shortened it to 1 page
• applying within 24-48h of posting

starting to think the match rate thing is just snake oil? or is the market really this bad for analysts right now. i see people on linkedin saying they got offers in 6 weeks and i genuinely dont get what they're doing different

roast my approach, i can take it. happy to share an anonymized version of the resume if that helps

been on resume io for a while, templates are clean and the editor is easy but the subscription pricing annoys me. paid monthly just to keep my resume editable which feels like ransom lol

also noticed some of their templates use two column layouts and now i'm paranoid about parsing issues after reading stuff on here

so what did you switch to? doesn't have to be free, just looking for something that doesn't hold my resume hostage