The Idiot's Guide to Applying for Jobs

I graduated college in the spring of 2020.

For the uninitiated, that also happened to coincide with the Covid-19 outbreak & subsequent earth-shattering chaos. The thing about earth-shattering chaos is that it tends to make job searches pretty difficult.

So, as I neared the end of my senior year, I found myself without a plan. The job offers I had been considering were suddenly revoked, and I moved home with my parents.

I spent the next few months applying to conservatively 10M jobs, doing freelance work, and taking practice LSATs despite the fact that I had no intention of attending law school.

Things got old fast. I needed to figure out a way to separate myself from the pack. I didn’t know what I wanted to do other than work at a startup. So, I made a pitch deck… with myself as the investment.

This is not a success story. When I eventually landed my job at Rally, it was through a conventional application process. But it may serve as some twisted version of wisdom for those afraid to put themselves out there — because despite the cringe you are about to experience reading through this deck, it sort of... almost worked? At least I got some laughs.

Without further ado, the dumbest thing you'll see today. Please enjoy.

I sent it out via email, DM, carrier pigeon, etc. Surprisingly, some people actually liked it. I got responses from people like Pomp, Turner Novak, and Alex Banayan.

Believe it or not, I actually got some laughs & caught the interest of Patrick OShaughnessy Joe Weisenthal, Mario Gabriele, Eric Jorgenson, and more.