Job searching is rough. Looking like I'll be ending up in the SF area. Nothing wants to pay over 80k/yr at best, even with a Masters degree. And nothing that pays enough to survive in the bay area wants a kiddo with an MPH and public health/local government experience but no pharma/industry/research/etc., experience. I've applied to well over 100 jobs in the past week. And I'm pretty confident I'll get ghosted/no from essentially all of them. It's unbelievably demoralizing. I know my skills and my worth, and I know I will be successful in all the jobs I'm applying to. They won't even give me a look though because I don't have exactly what they're looking for and so an algorithm or some HR person pushes me away and I never get through. And everyone I know is East Coast, not West Coast, so I don't have a network to really tap and use to my benefit while I search. I've applied to pharma, federal, consulting, hospital, environmental, startup, and research roles, and none of them will get back to me. I'm so done with it and it hasn't even really started yet.