The main thing I learned during my recent months of employment is this:

LinkedIn is the worst, most toxic social media site in existence.

Every day, I had to check that site to find job leads, but they were buried among endless posts of people desperate for work, freaking out that they weren't landing interviews, saying their lives are over, giving up on the world, etc.. It was the worst kind of doom scrolling, because I was being forced to do it to find work. Every morning I would wake up with a horrible pit in my stomach, knowing I had to log into that fucking site and be exposed to the most depressing content that was going to do nothing but reinforce my existing anxieties.

And the tragedy is that I know that one day, I'll be forced to return to it.