These companies think I am an idiot and it is a turn off. Has anyone ever been job shopping and thought “I get it. You have money. Stop waving it in my face”?

I posted a few days ago about how I was looking for a new job and got tons of good advice. <br><br>I always use Indeed and LinkedIn because I know them best and the two I know best. Lots of good advice on other sites and tips/tricks. <br><br>This morning I decided to expand my job search. I think I might have gone too wide. <br><br>I went onto one of those general “here are jobs. Apply for them” web sites. <br><br>I always get a bunch of hits for the same job from different agencies. This is normal. I usually ignore them and apply directly to the company but sometimes apply for the agency posting if it looks better than the company’s one. <br><br>But there are always these things that say “find your dream job. Make $200,000 a year” . You know, those “survey” sites. <br><br>So I decided to go after it. There were several but as expected most of them were junk companies for junk jobs that I would never be interested in. That said, there were a few that had possibilities. <br><br>I take the survey, answer all kinds of questions, and things start popping up. I apply. I apply. I trash the crap jobs. I apply. <br><br>There was one that I thought was really good. I won’t go into details but I was actually really excited. It was a very large, well known company that I was thrilled to be contacting. <br><br>I hit submit on the application and get to a screen that had all the “great jobs” and the one I applied for was up top. It said “did we miss anything? Did we miss your dream job?” And I thought “finally, here is a survey that doesn’t suck. I can tell them the types of companies and things I am looking for and find some places that I haven’t thought of. <br><br>Nope. A commercial for a job search database. And as I am watching a commercial for $9.99/ month this guy is waving $100 bills around and talking about how he couldn’t believe he was going to make so much money from this job search database! <br><br>Then another. Apply for a job, click on it, and there is some woman talking about how she didn’t know how to job search until she went on their website and now she makes $250,000 and can travel and all kinds of other nonsense. <br><br>Honestly I am starting to get pissed off. It reminds me of those text messages from car dealerships that say “THIS IS NOT A SCAM. YOU REALLY WON! COME ON DOWN AND FIND YOUR DREAM CAR” And then I go down and it’s a crappy car with 90,000 miles on it. <br><br>I just don’t know how people fall for that crap any more. I mean I get it. Your company has money. Great. But you are also greedy and sucky and I don’t want to work with people who are that cheesy.