How to Keep Your Sanity During Your Job Search 2021

Unemployment is hard. Use time management to help you through it.

While this is article stands alone, this is also Part 5 of New Graduate’s Guide to Becoming a Business/Data Analyst.

TL;DR

• Time Management — How to Keep Your Sanity During Your Job Search
• Make a daily schedule
• Make sure there’s at least of each of these things in your schedule
• Have something else going on — preferably multiple things
• Set small goals
• Take care of yourself
• Give yourself a break

Make a daily schedule

Look, I’m a not routine person. But when you’re living in your parents’ basement in the midst of a pandemic, or simply out of school for the first time in your life trying to do something you’ve never attempted before, you need to do something to ground yourself.

Just make a schedule, try to stick to it, and for fuck’s sake, it doesn’t have to be as intense as school.

For most of my job search, I aimed to do job-search related stuff for at least 5 hours per day, 5 days per week, and it was plenty. For comparison, I usually spent 10 hours a day, 6 days a week doing homework or attending class during college.

If you decide to try a similar schedule, let yourself stop working after you’ve finished your allotted hours. Even…