The emotional stages of job searching

1. You start the search.

2. You spend days sifting through jobs and begin to think you’ll be unemployed forever.

3. Then it happens: the perfect job.

4. Updating your resume and cover letter for each job.

5. Submitting your application.

6. Trying to think of good references.

7. Getting called for an interview.

8. Nailing the interview.

9. Finding out someone else got the job.

10. Restarting the whole process.