Several years ago, I was so unhappy in a job that I started "rage applying." I sat at my desk, making sure my boss wasn't nearby, applying to job after job after job. I would go home and apply in the evenings and weekends as well. I was frustrated and angry. I felt so stuck in my career that I was spraying my resume everywhere and praying, applying reactively to any opening I could find online. Because how else could I get unstuck and out of this miserable job if I wasn't actively looking?

Rage applying led me to apply for roles I wasn't interested in or didn't have the specific skills to do. I made mistakes on job applications and cover letters (one recruiter was kind enough to point out that I had inserted the wrong company name, in fact, of a competitor). I wasn't prepared for calls with recruiters because........

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