@Leucrotta we should probably get out of bed, eat, and start job hunting ourselves and I am not looking forward to it.

@frost I usually get coffee and a pastry, and listen to music while doing job hunt stuff, in an attempt to feel less miserable about it.

@Leucrotta That is a lovely idea! I was thinking maybe we shouldn't do that again today just because money, but fuckit, let's do it. It'll be way nicer.

We've been getting a bunch of fresh bagels (and sometimes a pastry, if they have one that looks good) at Safeway, then going into Philz and getting coffee and having coffee + bagels. =^.^=

@Leucrotta We have /finally/ arrived, obtained coffee and food!

@Leucrotta Current situation: trying to write a cover letter. Whee.

@Leucrotta (this is an IT-sounding position, which is probably a better fit for our skills than entry-level part-time stuff. More stress though.)

@frost The way I usually do these is to offer an introduction, make a bulleted list of skills and experience I have that might answer their needs, then wrap it up giving contact information and inviting them to reach out to me. If I'm really feeling ambitious, I copy-paste the job listing's descriptions of what they want you to do, then try to rephrase those as things I've worked with, to be my bulleted list.

I have NO CLUE whether that helps. I grew up with the conventional knowledge that you HAD TO write a cover letter for every application and I honestly don't know if that's true.

@Leucrotta huh! thanks!

Every website today is still repeating the "you need a cover letter!", but, yeah I'm a little skeptical.

It does feel like it makes sense for the odd IT-type job, though, considering we have effectively zero work history. Probably less necessary for the part-time ones.

I have a draft cover letter already but it's, only sort of that. Yours sounds better, I was kinda like "uhhh I dunno" internally while writing the introduction/conclusion, so that's helpful!