Fed up with interviews / recruiters after being made redundant and considering my options !

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I was made redundant in the summer and the last role before that, was on a one year contract.

I am getting a lot of heat/ questions about my moves and why etc. the field I work in is pretty brutal.

I have been talking to recruiters, companies etc and I’m getting drilled and people keep trying to catch me out during the process. Basically just making me feel like shit.

I am seriously considering just dropping it all together and getting out of this shitty corporate game I’ve been stuck in for years.

I went straight back to work after my babies ( I had two in the last 5 years ). I was afraid it would be difficult to get back into work if I actually had a couple of years out, but I’m finding that it would almost be easier to pretend I hadn’t been working, because of that one year contact and the subsequent redundancy.

also about 9 years ago I was at a company for 6 months and recruiters love to ask me why that is, as the first question. Everywhere else I’ve stayed 2-4 years.

I am so sick of being spoken to like this, having people try to catch me out. I’m considering just not going back and starting my own thing.

my field is well paid, but extremely high stress and brutal.

health wise, I face serious issues which I just try to live with. My kids are small and my husband is never home and always working. So a lot is on me at home too.

H and I are both high earners. But at what cost ? Also a lot of the employers I’ve been talking to just sound like dicks. I don’t even like what I do. I just do it because it pays well. I can branch out on my own, even though that’s of course a risk.

has anyone been in a situation like this ?

Sounds like you’ve burnt out. Can you afford to take a career break?

They're not trying to catch you out, they're doing their due diligence on you as you should be on them. I fail to believe someone who claims to be a 'high earner' does not understand this.

Ah ok so you think I just made that up ? What’s the point in that. It feels like they’re trying to catch me out. I have enough experience and years of talking to companies to identify the ones that are just dicks and the ones that aren’t. I’m not willing to put up with the ones that are dicks like I may have done in the past.

case and point an employer a recruiter was talking to me about who pays 20 percent below the market rate. The justification is because they think people being paid the market rate just get lazy. I’m not even going to interview with someone who has that attitude.

and yeah if the first thing a recruiter asks me is why I was in a role for 6 months almost 10 years ago, as a first question, I’m also not going to take that.

due diligence is one thing, asking that as the very first question is just stupid. Good recruiters don’t do that as a first question.

I am just getting to a point where I can’t stomach it anymore. I used to jump on everting and take it, but I’m thinking that I am just over this shit now.