I am getting a little angry. Not incredibly angry, but a little. Someone has changed my job search criteria on four of the five job sites that I am listed on. Which means that instead of getting results in my field, I am getting results for companies wanting people who can do Electrical Engineering for them or other jobs that are not only outside of my comfort zone, are impossible for me to do.

I don’t think that I was the one who made the error when I checked the box with my numbers. I blog enough and send enough emails to know how to correctly check the right box. It’s not as if I’m dyslexic or have a hard time reading English.

On one site, I was unsubscribed from the service altogether by someone who apparently decided that I didn’t really want to look for the kind of job that I was looking for. It was almost as if someone--maybe someone I knew who had access to my accounts--had pre-determined that the jobs I was looking for were either out of my depth or too beneath me.

I don’t know who did it or how it was done, but I’m the only one who can choose what kind of jobs I look for and how I look for them. It’s not the responsibility of someone else to play little jokes with my job search accounts. It’s not funny because trying for jobs is one way to keep myself secure for the future.

It wasn’t cute when I saw the results come back for the job searches for jobs that I had no interest in. It was even less cute when I realized that none of the jobs I was really interested in were posted. It was less than cute when I realized that someone I knew had probably taken the time to hack my account to change the settings.

You know, just for fun. Because it doesn’t matter if people have enough employment if they have nice parents, right? It doesn’t matter if someone gets a job in their own country or not, does it? And it certainly doesn’t matter at all if someone doesn’t even get to compete for the jobs she might actually be qualified for.

I don’t have any suspects and am not really sure why someone would do this to me. I just hope that it doesn’t happen again or happen to anyone else.