- Buying a house (or renting an apartment) is an extremely luck-based process. The literal geographic location you end up in will shape where you eat, what hobbies you are exposed to, how you travel to the airport, etc. You are searching for ~months in a range of areas, at the whim of other people being in a situation to sell. Maybe you’re in a situation to buy that was unplanned; you’re in a state of desperation. Your preferences match or do not match these options. You take your chance on a bid, only to end up rejected.
- With the job market, you are the product. Flip a coin when sending an application, flip a coin when screening with HR, flip a coin when interviewing with the hiring manager, flip a coin when you hear a response back.
- This also applies to any sort of application: College, Scholarship, Grant, Non-profits.
- Being on the dating market, you are also the product.
- (This is taking a cynical stance to human perception and relations, which I am only doing so illustratively.)