application

A conveyor belt with stacks of résumés flowing endlessly
A scene symbolizing the daily despair of drowning in a sea of applications.
Career & Self

Description

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.

Definitions

  • The act of entrusting one’s future anxiety to paper in order to obtain another’s approval.
  • A formal self-introduction stuffed with resumes and dreams of self-glorification.
  • Institutional gaslighting that raises hope only to defer disappointment.
  • A one-way ticket in life that never returns once mailed.
  • A ritual of entrusting the light of hope to an envelope and awaiting judgment in darkness.
  • A paper-based survival game where failure to meet conditions means immediate ejection.
  • A nameless public execution known as the selection process.
  • A lawful torture tightening one’s heart until the acceptance or rejection notice arrives.
  • A unilateral prayer attempting to deliver dreams to an unknown destination.
  • The solitary cry lost in a sea of countless applications.

Examples

  • “Applying to this company? I guess my life needed debugging by someone else, too.”
  • “Did you send your resume? I’m so terrified of the result I can’t even open the notification email.”
  • “Just looking at the application form, my self-esteem burned out around line three.”
  • “Motivation letter? That’s a philosophical mystery even I haven’t solved.”
  • “Every time I read the job posting, I’m reminded how completely I fall outside their specs.”

Narratives

  • On the eve of the deadline, his desk became a graveyard of unsent application emails, haunted only by the copier’s hum.
  • She overthought her motivation letter until she lost sight of her original desire.
  • The moment he clicked submit, a curious warmth of joy and regret mingled in his chest.
  • Upon seeing that hundreds of applications were already submitted, he experienced the terror of having his life’s worth measured in numbers.
  • No result ever came; he raised a silent toast to resignation before the empty mailbox.

Aliases

  • Paper Torture
  • Funeral of Hope
  • Rejection Machine
  • Document Graveyard
  • Factory of Declines
  • Postal Hell
  • Form Landmine
  • Hiring Black Market

Synonyms

  • Ballot of Dreams
  • Document War
  • Future Gamble
  • Résumé Festival
  • Rejection Gala
  • Premonition of Decline
  • Consent Lottery
  • Misfilled Art
2025-07-09
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Keywords

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