There’s this sto­ry we keep telling about the job mar­ket: it’s tough out there. Fine. I can live with that. And I’m say­ing this as some­one cur­rent­ly in it — reori­ent­ing on the way to my next role. I’m hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions, doing calls, send­ing appli­ca­tions, wait­ing, look­ing close­ly at what’s out there. And there’s this slight­ly sur­re­al expe­ri­ence of try­ing to meet a sys­tem where it is, with­out let­ting it define me.