I Wrote On LinkedIn for 100 Days. Now I Never Worry About Finding a Job

Introduction 

In 2020, I read a book called The Power of Habit and pushed myself to try something new. As someone who’s an introvert and felt timid about expressing my ideas, one of the behaviors I wanted to focus on was speaking out more.

I finished the book in a few days, and one of the important aspects it brought out was that the greatest approach to accomplish anything is to tell everyone else about it.

Apparently, the social peer pressure helps. So I chose to post on LinkedIn, a site where nobody truly knew who I was.

I established a random challenge for myself that I would write on the platform for 100 days straight. Sure, it was a bizarre task, but I believed it would at least assist with obtaining a job as a jobless university student.

It was one of the toughest things I’ve ever done in my life.

Day 1

Pressing publish for the first time was a scary feeling. It seems like everyone is going to condemn you for saying anything, even though most people are simply casually reading through their page.

I made it known to everyone that this would be a 100-day commitment by concluding every LinkedIn post with the post number. First one down and 99 more to go.

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Day 2 to Day 10 – What do you even speak about?

After the first day I regretted the challenge. It’s like pushing yourself to go to the gym when you really don’t want to.

My greatest issue was that I had 0 clue what to write about. Sure, nobody actually knew I set this self-imposed challenge for myself, but it would harm my ego to abruptly give up.

I pushed myself to come up with something, and I ran with random things that occurred to me that day.

Things like becoming frustrated standing in line for the checkout, dealing with math assignments, and my life living at home.

I truly had no direction with my stuff, but I simply had to keep going with the task.

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Day 11 to Day 30 – Cater to the platform

After 10 days of publishing, the post button suddenly stops becoming terrifying. It was simply hard thinking up a nice concept to write about.

I had to catch myself why I cared about the people reading my work. It seemed like if I was being ignored, then I was doing something wrong.

With 10 days worth of material, I found the post about difficulty with arithmetic fared a little bit better than my previous postings. I wouldn’t realize it at the time, but having a difficulty and striving to overcome it is a relevant narrative for everyone.

If I wanted to be recognized a bit more, I concentrated my articles around issues I experienced in life. Building good habits, getting up early, obtaining a job, and establishing friends.

Talking about difficulties is easy, and not all of those postings went well. But it provided me something to write about daily.

Of course, I always felt like I could be doing better.

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Day 30 to Day 50—People are following the trip.

After writing for 30 days, I began to read comments from individuals talking about how they simply binged my odd entries from every other day.

That gave me the idea that others were engaged in the adventure, even if they’re not pressing the like button. Giving everyone a clear aim to follow along gives my audience an incentive to come back to see what I’m going to write next.

The issue with this was that it made me feel pushed to live up to the expectations to generate compelling articles. Talking about difficulties helps, but I observed certain problems were better themes than others.

The most frequent issue was about obtaining a job.

I began to change material from my regular activities to talking about what the job market has been like for me. Little did I realize it would connect with a lot of individuals who also suffered with the employment market.

It was wonderful for everyone to have someone they could connect to and discuss the challenges of being jobless.

Suddenly I became recognized as an ambitious software developer who was eager to learn more. It was great… until I began to burn out.

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Day 51 to Day 80: It wasn’t enjoyable anymore.

Nobody wants to eat the same thing daily. Similarly, chatting about the same themes might grow tiresome, particularly if nothing new is occurring.

I related anecdotes about how I was suffering with the job market, but that was the end of it. As relatable as it was, I felt like I wanted to make it more fascinating for myself.

This is counterintuitive from what most content producers would advise you because if something works, don’t fix it. Just farm it.

I didn’t realize this was the normal content creation perspective, but I didn’t want to be caged as the job struggle person, so I spoke about all the fun things you could do with software engineering.

I was a computer science student after all, so I figured that instead of talking about difficulties, I could teach others what I’m learning. Maybe it’d benefit someone else.

My following developed, and what I didn’t anticipate was that I was being contacted out to by recruiters. They read some of my blogs and offered me to interview with some extremely significant IT businesses.

I would add that promoting your abilities makes it simpler to locate individuals interested in them. All I needed to do now was to finish out the remainder of the 100-day challenge.

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Day 81 to Day 99—Pressure to keep improving

Every day I felt pressure to write a post that would outdo the previous. More people are following the adventure; more readers are giving comments.

It was a consequence of writing about popular LinkedIn subjects and iterating on every article I was writing on.

But the social pressure was strong since it seemed like there were so many eyes on my stuff for the first time. It was the first time anybody saw something like this on LinkedIn.

After running out of my own thoughts, I took the daring choice to look at what other people were writing. I needed their motivation to think about what I could write about.

It became troublesome. I couldn’t write about the subjects other authors discussed on the site, like conducting B2B sales or heading an engineering team. So I fell back on what I was experiencing.

Stress, worry, and other challenges I was confronting in life. I wanted to share experiences that were relevant with other people again since that’s what I appreciated the most.

It nearly got me to the finish. But I had no notion how I would top off the 100th day.

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Day 100 – Thank you

To everyone who followed me on that trip, I felt the correct way to send it off was to thank everyone who went through the experience with me.

From the inner pain of being clueless about what to write about to improving on every article, it was a journey most people couldn’t conceive going through.

From all I learnt about publishing on LinkedIn for 100 days, I observed that software engineering themes fared incredibly well. The more I touched on those issues, the more recruiters would call out without even viewing my résumé.

Although I’m not in that sector anymore, I could always go back to it if I wanted to find another job as a software developer.

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