I’m 49 with two young kids. I left agency life in 2024 due to burnout, moved brand-side, but the company was toxic and I was let go in September. I’ve been job hunting hard—mostly agency roles—but getting nowhere. My wife works full‑time and is pressuring me, and she doesn’t understand why it’s taking so long. How do you talk to a partner about a long job search? The stress is really intense right now.

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Show her all your job application and rejection emails. Sit there and read each one out loud until it sinks in. Then show her LinkedIn job posts and recruiters posts… a 1 day old post will have 80-100 and don’t forget to mention they stop counting after 100.

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This article was 2024. There’s others from 2023 if you dig deep enough

https://www.businessinsider.com/hiring-slump-professional-white-collar-jobs-women-winning-2024-5

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I’m in the same predicament for years and after very long periods of unemployment I have to accept offers I don’t really want and constantly downgrading managerial level, joining toxic places, changing functions, work under idiotic bosses, in order to keep my self afloat. Patience and persistence in job hunting. To prove competence without luck is impossible. Apply to alternative roles where you can transfer skills-my wife was always very supportive and pragmatic regarding corporate realities-so that gave me a slack. You need to make her understand more..

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Man this is so relatable.

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Been there and I’m there now. The reality is it’s supposed to take a month for every $10K you make over $100k but righr now it’s closer to 2 months. Your wife is going to have to choose to believe you that it’s a miserable market or not, but you can’t do much beyond just explain it to her.

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Considering she’s the one with a job and making the money, divorce her and then she can pay you alimony. Problem solved.

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Agencies have crazy hours. In-house has crazy *people.* Which is worse?

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