The Job Market is Dead—and You're Next How would you feel if you threw 900 Hail Marys into the void and not one came back? That’s not a rhetorical question—it’s a real-life hell that Jennifer Smith, a 46-year-old mother of three, is living right now in Florida’s economic wasteland. After being laid off from a financial-services gig last September, she’s fired off 900 job applications. One interview. Zero offers. Her severance is circling the drain, and her health insurance premiums are a ticking time bomb. This isn't bad luck. It's systemic collapse. Smith isn’t some unqualified slouch. She led a user-experience team. But in 2025’s economic apocalypse, that doesn’t matter. She's now selling her five-bedroom house and downsizing like tens…
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