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It started, as these things do, at midnight on LinkedIn—the app that has quietly replaced Instagram as your doomscroll of choice. This is a well-documented condition among the unemployed and the underemployed: an obsessive, Pavlovian attraction to anything resembling a job, especially a good one. The moment you see the words ‘research associate’ or ‘MEL’ or ‘project management’, your thumb stops scrolling on its own before the rest of you has caught up. Then you begin to read it—the post that ca