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Collected Item: “Virtual Talent Show”

Give your story a title.

Virtual Talent Show

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

These videos were submitted to a google drive folder that was shared with the whole school

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

The whole summer I had this looming inexplicable fear that time was running out, and I guess that was really embodied by my job search. I feel like I applied at every fast food place on the westside of Albuquerque and the south side of Rio Rancho and I had gotten a call back from only a few. All in all I got 5 interviews from different places and none of them were for jobs I ended up getting. This was because there were so many downsized companies and competition for the jobs that they had. I was driven to madness by the midpoint of the summer and I felt like because the summer was halfway over that I was running out of time. By the end of the summer I didn’t start working until the weekend after the second week of school at Sonic.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#quarintine, #onlineschool, #Nex+Gen, #newtechnetwork, #pandemic, #work,

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The companies who created the job applications, and me who filled them out.

Give this story a date.

2020-06-10
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