the short list

every listing in pirch's public pool was confirmed live — a human-grade check, not a scrape — within the past month. this week we went back and re-opened all 1,165 of them. 27% had already vanished. here's the decay curve, and why “posted 3 days ago” won't save you.

it answers like it just walked the boards. it didn't — and that goes for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, whichever is hot this month. here's what's actually behind the list, and the one thing no chat window does before handing you a link.

the money was good, so you stayed. now it's sunday night and you're reading exit guides again. what the data says about wanting out — and what those years on quota are actually worth on the other side.

the fear is real. the reason for it is borrowed from someone else's problem. what the hiring data says about starting again at 35 — no degree, no do-over, no permission needed.

the estimates disagree — one in seven, one in five, one in three. the signals don't. here's the two-minute check that saves you 44 minutes and a little hope.

two or three. maybe five on a very good day. the interesting part isn't the number — it's why the number is so small, and what your hours are supposed to go to instead.

everyone's doing it, nobody's admitting it, and hiring managers swear they can tell. the honest answer is yes — and absolutely not. here's where the line is.

the 2am refresh, the empty inbox, the creeping suspicion that it's you. it's almost certainly not — but something is broken, and it's diagnosable.

the tools promise a thousand applications while you sleep. we pulled every public test, audit, and dataset we could find to see what actually comes back.