The hardest part about job searching in the USA, in these modern times, is that it is literal life or death.
I am lucky, and am definitely going to be ok, but i can see the bottomless pit below me for sure.
I can also see the people around me "living on savings" who will then have no retirement, or worse fates.
These are unbelievably bad times. It blows my mind that this is where things are at. It's hard not to be buried by the weight of it all.