#Career

An application is a bureaucratic ritual in which one entrusts their fate to the judgment of others. Hope and despair are mailed together, betting one’s future on a return envelope. The moment you press submit is a fine line between courage and folly. By the time your forms arrive, your spirit has usually already sunk.

Appraisal is the sacred ritual through which organizations measure the difference between achievement and sloth, dispensing equal parts praise and reproach. At quarter-end, countless feelings soar untethered from numbers, and a stack of paper decrees human worth. The true purpose is not the appraisal itself, but the spectacle it provides for meetings. Everyone claims to want fairness, yet those who believe in it harbor the deepest doubts.

Aptitude refers to the ideal self where one’s talents and personality fit perfectly, yet its measurement is nothing but superstition dressed in science. Various tests proclaim "perfect match" like magic while actually slipping through the cracks of statistics. Each questionnaire that tries to define you ultimately narrows human potential instead. In the end, people are sorted into the binary of "apt" or "not apt", and all complexity vanishes.