I went through this in 2000 during the first dotcom bust. I believe I sent out over 200 resumes. Ended up learning to program properly as part of it, building a

I went through this in 2000 during the first dotcom bust. I believe I sent out over 200 resumes. Ended up learning to program properly as part of it, building a CRM job submission manager that tracked who I submitted to and reminded me to follow up. Didn't end up getting me a job but it taught me to program and my career has been awesome ever since.