Americans Are Breaking Down - There's No More Jobs

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]I'm 29 years old and I just lost my job.

[00:00:02]And just 6 months ago I moved back from Vancouver after ending [music] a 7-year relationship. So I decided to move myself downtown Toronto to a condo of my own. I was really starting to feel like myself again until 2 months later I became unemployed. So I have no idea what's going on or what's coming next [music] for me, but I'm going to take you along for the journey and see what 2025 has in store for me. Like Americans are really broke. This is first world economy. This is a first world country.

[00:00:26]The most powerful country, but it seems like people can't even seem to get their finance together. And it's because the economy sucks. It's not because people are irresponsible. I mean, some people are, but let's be real. Right now the economy really does suck. People are flat out broke. This guy is like, how do you even make money when you're flat broke? Just need some extra money. Some people say work harder, work smarter, whatever, cut the expenses. But seriously, you got people already working two jobs, 40 hours a week, and already super burnt out. Like some people can't even find a job at all.

[00:00:59]Like this dude has 4 plus years of freaking experience, went to a college for business, can't seem to get anything. You got stories where people say there's thousands of jobs posted on Indeed, but they're not really jobs for you. And I constantly see the same job postings every single day. Like aren't they even hiring?

[00:01:19]So I just got off the phone with my best friend, Jen, and I was like, I have to tell you something. And she was like, okay. And I was like, THIS IS AWESOME.

[00:01:30]LIKE, Y'ALL.

[00:01:32]This is awesome. Um I would love to just claim like I am never going back to corporate America.

[00:01:39]I'm going to figure this ish out. So like I don't care how cringe I have to be on the internet. Okay, I care a little bit.

[00:01:48]I'm not going to do like feet stuff or anything weird like that. But like I'm going to figure this out because this is amazing. You know what I did today?

[00:02:00]I ran some errands.

[00:02:01]I got a new earring cuz mine came out.

[00:02:05]I went and got my nails done with my mom and my grandma.

[00:02:10]And that was amazing.

[00:02:12]Layoffs are on the way. If they haven't already hit you, layoffs are on the way.

[00:02:16]And you know why?

[00:02:17]You know why? Because systematically this country wants a bunch of unemployed young people.

[00:02:22]So they they can join something that will guarantee them benefits for life.

[00:02:27]That if they serve our country and do their duty, they can come back with a guaranteed American life.

[00:02:36]Where you can get a home.

[00:02:38]You can get an education.

[00:02:40]You know, all these things that you need to pay for. That you can't pay for right now because nobody has money because everything is too [ __ ] expensive. No one can feed themselves because everything is too [ __ ] expensive.

[00:02:51]But you know who will feed you?

[00:02:53]You know who will educate you?

[00:02:55]There is a reason they have ruined this economy and we are watching it happen before our very eyes. And they need a bunch of young bodies, young and able-bodied.

[00:03:06]And so they're making it really hard for you to have a job.

[00:03:10]I don't know. Writing's on the wall.

[00:03:11]Hey y'all. So guess what, y'all?

[00:03:16]It's been an entire year, April 4th.

[00:03:21]An entire year I have been unemployed.

[00:03:25]I still like to this day I'm trying to figure out how the [clears throat] hell my structured ass managed to be unemployed for an entire year.

[00:03:40]And I just honestly have been making it so far. Um this month I think is the tough toughest for me. Um April seems like it has started off pretty tough, but um I really just want to thank my village and God.

[00:03:59]Like all glory to God and my village.

[00:04:04]No notes.

[00:04:05]Thank y'all.

[00:04:07]Day three of being unemployed and I already messed up. I forgot to take out the garbage.

[00:04:14]Cuz I thought we were still on the weekend.

[00:04:18]Okay, update. Today's not getting any better. I got my approval letter for my unemployment. I have a $1,500 child support payment that I have to make every month and my unemployment is only $400 a week. You guys do the math. So this just means I really got to find a job. Our gas tank is on low.

[00:04:34]>> I'm being wifey's chauffeur today, so we're going to make some returns.

[00:04:39]First up is UV. Next up is Walgreens.

[00:04:50]I'm going to go and tell her when you're ready. Can I get two 20 oz B&Js?

[00:04:55]Thank you. Have a good day. Okay, we're trying to stay positive, but now we're having truck problems again. It shut off while we're in line at Dutch Bros. It's turning off now.

[00:05:03]I got to start again. Now I got to call my buddy at Ford. Mind you, we just spent a couple thousand and they told us it was fixed.

[00:05:11]Hello, Jeff is unavailable. Never mind.

[00:05:14]I guess we can't talk to him.

[00:05:17]Yeah.

[00:05:20]Full crimp.

[00:05:21]I like that better on me.

[00:05:27]Try and call back our boy at GIF. Can't hold of him.

[00:05:31]I don't think we're going to get an answer. I think I'm just going to leave a message.

[00:05:33]>> Leave leave a message after the tone.

[00:05:35]Hey Jeff, this is Manuel. There's been so much discourse on here lately and just in general about like should you have another job lined up when you quit your job? And as someone who has quit her job multiple times with no job lined up. Um I want to talk about it and be completely transparent with you about how it was for me personally. Here's the thing, I would love to stand across the screen from you right now and tell you that like, "Actually, it's fine if you quit your job and like you're following your dreams is one of the best things you can do for yourself."

[00:06:04]I would love to say that, but unfortunately, job instability, job insecurity, and financial instability {slash} insecurity are very, very real things. I'm not making this video to scare anybody into not following their dreams, etc. But, there's multiple times where I have quit my job um with like some form of financial stability lined up after, but not like a full-time job with a salary. It's very, very, very overwhelming and scary to go into that period of the unknown. For the first 2 weeks, I remember feeling like I was on cloud nine. Like, "Oh my god, my days are free. I have like a degree of freedom." Again, in my experience, that got very old very quickly, and I know it's often glamorized on what it means to work for yourself. Everybody's case is so different. So, for someone or anyone to tell you that like you should just quit your job and follow your dreams, it is ignoring the fact that many people do not have a safety net, financial stability, to actually be doing that. And it is not a bad thing that you don't have that financial stability. A lot of people will make you feel like it is, but it's actually not.

[00:07:08]And also realizing that every single person is different. Like, some people genuinely have a lot of bills. Some people pay a rent, some people pay a mortgage, some people pay for cars.

[00:07:17]Like, it is not realistic to just up and quit your job on a on a Friday and live in a state of financial stability for the next 2 years. I feel like there is always this discourse about like, "Just follow your dreams. Go out there. You'll be fine. You'll land on your feet. Don't worry about it." And I fear that it does disregard the fact that most people in this world do not have access to that kind of privilege to be able to say, "I'm going going my job on a Friday, and I know everything's going to be fine.

[00:07:42]Especially as someone who has done the whole quit your job with no job lined up, and it is not as glamorous and freeing as the tales and stories that people come on here and share. Another day of crying on the internet because a job that I have interviewed for three times and really, really wanted, I didn't get.

[00:08:03]>> [snorts] [sighs] >> And it sucks, and I feel a lot of different emotions right now. I feel like embarrassed and >> [snorts] >> like ashamed of myself cuz like I gave it my all and like they didn't want me and like I know the job market sucks, okay? Like I know.

[00:08:22]And I know the job market sucks and like whatever, but like it's just it really takes a toll on your confidence when you keep applying and you interview and you get rejected in the final round. This has happened to me four times in the past month.

[00:08:38]Interviewing again and again and again and getting rejected and like I don't want to It just seemed like I'm complaining, but like it takes a toll on you after a while and it just [ __ ] sucks, okay? And I never swear, but I just feel really upset right now and like I know I'm going to be fine, but just like the thought of starting over again and like applying for jobs again and going through the whole interview process sounds like terrible. So, this is if you are in the job hunt, you're not alone. The worst part about being unemployed isn't even the fact that you're unemployed. The worst part is actually the people around you feeling like you're a bum and that you're lazy just because you can't get a job in this job market. But they don't realize that you've been applying for hundreds of jobs every day for the last 6 months.

[00:09:27]But the only email that you get in return is thank you for your interest, but unfortunately.

[00:09:33]Like do you know how draining it is to be applying for this many jobs, but no matter what you do, you can't get a job.

[00:09:39]You can't find a job. And everyone around you is draining the life out of you cuz they're always making comments.

[00:09:45]They're always looking at you in some type of way like, "Do you think that I want to be in this position?" I didn't choose this life. This life chose me, unfortunately. I've been laid off twice in the past year. Um as if once wasn't enough, a second time absolutely. Um one of the first things that I feel like most the heaviest things that you deal with with unemployment is the guilt because even when it's out of your control and you can't necessarily decide who hires you and who doesn't. In my case, I can't even decide who decides to look at my resume in the first place.

[00:10:12]Like that's not my problem. It's not like I'm hiring or interviewing for these jobs and not getting them because then I would know, "Okay, it's me. Like I need to fix how I'm presenting myself." I can't even get the interviews. And that's the part that I'm confident about. That's the part that I'm like, "If I get this, I get it in the bag." Um and and it's crazy how like the guilt is just there all day, every day. If I'm applying to jobs, I feel guilty that I don't get any responses back. If I don't apply to jobs, I feel guilty that I didn't apply to jobs. If I am applying during the week uh and nothing comes of it during the week like at the end of the week, I feel terrible about myself. But then also, I know it has to do with just this like societal guilt that's been ingrained in our brains because on the weekends or during vacations, I don't feel this guilt because it's okay if I don't have a job on the weekends because everybody else doesn't have a job on the weekends.

[00:10:56]It's crazy. The guilt is crazy. It's the hardest part because yes, obviously there's financial stress that comes with it, but it's the fact that like nothing feels like enough. Like even when I'm working on my own projects that really there's this little eating away in the back of my brain that's like, "This is stupid. You People won't respect you for this. You need to have the 9-to-5." Like even if it's paying you nothing and treating you like garbage. Like it's better to have that than nothing.

[00:11:17]Crazy. I don't think we talk about it enough. You are in the job search right now and at any point this week or weekend you have said, "What am I doing wrong? It has never been this hard to get a job." Here is one thing as a COO and hiring manager that a lot of people are getting wrong that nobody is telling you that you may not even realize you're doing. Hi, my name is Beverly Dines. I'm a chief operating officer who's been scaling operations for over a decade and over 10 industries. Not only have I been unemployed myself, I have literally interviewed thousands of people and have seen many many many many many an application. And the one thing I consistently see people in this market getting wrong, and I mean consistently, is that you assume you're the problem.

[00:11:53]And there's actually a documented psychological reason why this is happening to you. It is called attribution error, specifically self-attribution bias. It is a well-researched phenomenon in organizational psychology that states when we experience repeated failure and we cannot see the external system that is causing it, our brains default to blaming ourselves. We personalize what is actually structural. So, you have been tweaking your resume, rewriting your cover letter and your resume a thousand different times, practicing your answers, maybe doing mock interviews with family and friends, saving every freaking career advice video that you can find, even getting interviews and making it all the way up to four, five, six, seven rounds, and every time you get rejected, every time they tell you they've gone with a more qualified candidate that you know is BS, every time you've checked your bank account and seen your savings dwindle, you decide that it must be you. Because this bias works on things that you cannot see, let me make the invisible visible to you. Here's what I know as a hiring manager who has done this in over 10 industries. They called you into that room because you are a qualified and incredible candidate. Take a look at that resume that you've been revamping a thousand times. You did that. That's your expertise, your leadership, your experience. It wouldn't be on there if you hadn't done it. Take a look at your certifications, your education, even your presentations and articles you've done. Reread those and relook at those.

[00:13:14]They wouldn't be there if you hadn't completed them. You did that. That's the reality. In this market, I need to make it really clear. Every time you face a rejection, I need you to tell yourself this. If a company cannot see my value clearly, that is not a reflection of my worth. That is a reflection of their fit to me, which means that better is on its way to me, because I deserve nothing less than the best opportunity aligned to me. Repeat that to yourself every time you think to say, "What is wrong with me?" Because according to that resume, that LinkedIn, those certifications, that education, that expertise, those years of experience, all the data about this hiring market is telling me that there are a hell of a lot of companies that fumbled you. Guys, I just got laid off.

[00:14:03]Sporting this puffy, red, half crying, half okay, half not okay look. I just got back from my little mental health walk just to find out that most of my team, like my entire team basically, has been eliminated. So, if you've been following Can't even talk. If you've been following along on this page, I'm excited to see where this goes, because this could be a great opportunity for me to really just take content full time. So, we'll see. This could be kind of crazy, kind of chaotic.

[00:14:35]You guys are seeing me literally like moments. I haven't even called my family yet.

[00:14:39]Like this is how fresh this is. But stay tuned, because I've been laid off before, I bounced back better than ever, and I will bounce back just as strong if not stronger this time. So, if you've been laid off, have any tips, drop them in the comments below. And also, if you're a full-time content creator, would you recommend? This is day zero, and follow along to see where I go from here. A lot of people are talking about this, because if you feel like you have been applying to a gazillion jobs and you're not hearing back, and all you keep being told is to improve your resume and improve your LinkedIn, I need you to know that it's not you. It is This isn't you, this is the market. As of February 2026 in the US, overall employment, meaning the number of people working, went down, as well as the actual number of jobs being created.

[00:15:25]Although unemployment is slightly lower and there's been slightly less layoffs, this to me is not changing anything for us. They're not firing, but they're also not hiring. So, everything is stuck and hyper-competitive. Stop beating yourself up. This is not you. This is the whack-ass [ __ ] state of America.

[00:15:40]>> The new grad unemployment crisis has unironically created smarter people.

[00:15:46]Because new grads, to delay unemployment, are doing their masters, they're going for higher education. And then if they don't get their masters, they're probably just going to go for PhD. So, we're just going to have a bunch of unemployed PhDs walking around.

[00:16:00]Hi guys. I want to talk about the post-grad waiting room. If you don't know what the post-grad waiting room is, it's basically the time period after you graduate that you're waiting for your next step in life to start, whether that's trying to find a job or just trying to figure out what you want to do.

[00:16:15]It's a very difficult time in your life.

[00:16:17]It requires introspection, and it's honestly a very demoralizing and honestly an embarrassing time to kind of be in the unknown.

[00:16:27]I feel like I've been stuck in this waiting room for about 8 months.

[00:16:31]My waiting room has consisted of people who have either been in the waiting room with me the entire time, people who have been in and out of the waiting room, or people who just didn't come into my waiting room at all. It's a time that you recognize that connections really matter.

[00:16:48]It's embarrassing because you can't help to wonder and compare yourself to your peers and your friends whether or not you did enough in college or you did enough generally to get to your next step in life. You also are given unsolicited advice from people who have once navigated the job market before or feel like they've been in your shoes, but it's different for everyone and everyone's experience is definitely different. The waiting room is honestly a time period where I feel like you You see a light at the end of the tunnel.

[00:17:16]You know all bad things come to an end, but you're just in this endless loop of trying to figure out and get yourself to the next day.

[00:17:25]It's a really hard period in life, and if you're stuck in the waiting room like me, I'm really just hoping that something good comes at the end of this.

[00:17:31]Why is the corporate job market so insane? I have an international relations degree and an MBA, and I'm applied to hundreds of companies, big and small, startups, had interviews, went to the last round for them to be like no. And then I had someone literally say an interviewer say, "Well, because of the election year, it's not within the budget." Like, does that make sense?

[00:17:55]And then I keep saying raising taxes on big corporations is not going to make the job market any better.

[00:18:01]Ugh, I'm so tired of the rant. So, I think I got laid off.

[00:18:06]>> [sighs and gasps] >> I don't really talk about this on my social media, but besides content, I actually have or had a full-time job. I work in marketing at Amazon, and if you haven't heard, Amazon is doing a mass layoff. This morning, I got this text on my phone at 6:00 a.m. My manager scheduled a call with me in 10 minutes, so let's find out.

[00:18:26]5 minutes and I'm getting so nervous right now.

[00:18:30]I'm really like shaking.

[00:18:32]>> [music] >> Small, I want to just say that I'm sorry.

[00:18:38]Um I hope this That was only like 10 minutes.

[00:18:45]Ah!

[00:18:48]My content has been really slow this year, too, because I've been focusing on my work more, but now I get to do full-time content, so let's hope it works out.

[00:19:00]I need to take I need to take a day off.

[00:19:01]Bye. Bye, guys. Bye, guys.

[00:19:04]I'm stressed out. I didn't get a summer internship. No one's hiring. Everyone's ghosting me. How do you get a team's attention? Where do you apply for these internships? I'm going to sit here and tell you right now, you don't have to be an intern for a team in order to work for them full-time. Could that help you?

[00:19:19]Sure, but it's not the be-all end-all.

[00:19:21]One of my summer internships was with a nonprofit startup that had nothing to do with sport. But I'll tell you what, those skills are so transferable cuz guess what? I was a content creator and content curator before that was even really a thing. Worked with the team in a different state than me, on a different time zone, made content not for myself but for clients from all different kinds of industry. Allowed me to think outside the box, work on my communication skills, and I'm really grateful for that perspective. If you can't find an internship in sport, don't be afraid to find that position or what you want to do in another industry.