The agony and the ecstasy of the modern job hunt
About this episode
This episode explores the challenges of the modern job hunt with guest Rachel Meade Smith.
CUJO is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. Episodes drop every other week, but if you want the full experience, we recommend signing up for a paid subscription. Paid subscribers also get access to our CUJOPLEX Discord and The Weather Report , a monthly episode series where we take stock of where the cultural winds are blowing and tell you what’s rained into our brains. Stay tuned for our 2025 retrospective in late December with Ruby Justice Thelot. You’ll also get an invite to our second reading group meet-up: a discussion of Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s seminal 1995 essay, “The Californian Ideology ,” and Fred Turner’s recent article for The Baffle r, “The Texan Ideology .” That’s going down on Sunday, January 11. Between the looming menace of automation and job search platforms that feel even less effective than dating apps, you’ve probably heard that trying to find work right now is brutal. And while there’s no shortage of speculation about why the labor market is so broken (see our recent episode with economist Richard D. Wolff ), there’s far less (public) chatter about what the experience of searching for gainful employment in late 2025 actually looks…
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