I thought I’d share my story because in hindsight I thought it was humorous.

I was moving out of state not too long ago and looking for work in my new state and one of my first interviews the interviewer opened with, “I won’t lie, you have some pretty big gaps between April of 2020 and January 2021, and I’m concerned. What happened?”

I was literally too stunned to speak and looked at this woman like she licked windows and ate crayons.

When I gained composure I just said, “A pandemic… a pandemic happened.”

I’m in manufacturing, specifically aerospace. Between Boeing and travel bans, my industry is STILL recovering and may never reach the point it once did.

I didn’t get the job.