I was driving 35 miles both ways to teach HS math here in Illinois. The HS I attended less than 10 minutes from my house posted openings again and again and I would send an email application as the job postings required. No reply. No reply. No reply over the course of 5 years. Finally my buddy who worked in the district as an administrator called me said "Hey why don't you apply for that math job they can't find anyone. " I told him my resume must be toxic because they never even bother to reply to me despite 15 years experience. He said, send me your resume I'll get you an interview tomorrow. Then a couple hours later he texted me back said "Hey are you going to email me your resume or not?" I already did. Long story short, my email domain went straight to the junk file for the school district's g-mail accounts. I got the interview and hired on the spot the next day. I had been applying for a job for 5 years and no-one ever even read it because it went straight to their spam folders. 
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