With layoffs seemingly happening everywhere nowadays, many job seekers are using websites like LinkedIn or Indeed to find their next position. However, 28-year-old Rita Johnson is blazing her own trail – trying to secure a job solely by direct messaging celebrities on social media and asking them to adopt her.
Okay, future nepo baby!
“I’ve spent countless hours of my life sending resumés, writing cover letters, and filling out answers to questionnaires,” Rita told reporters while searching for her next target celebrity on Instagram. “After a while it gets so monotonous, but DMing famous people and asking them to be your parents is always exciting!”
While Rita admitted that she had been blocked by at least 50 celebrity accounts on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, she maintained that these small hiccups did not stop her in her search.
“Sure, it’s discouraging when Heidi Klum blocks you after you’ve pleaded to become ‘the best daughter she’ll ever have,’ and that you’re excited to ‘help plan her next Halloween costume,” Rita continued. “But rejection is all a part of the job search. I mean, you could hear 100 ‘no’s before you hear your first ‘yes,’ and that’s what I try to remember through it all. I am a bit worried about getting banned from Instagram, though.”
Just keep on trucking, girl!
Rita has already been banned from Snapchat and Facebook, but she believes that she has learned her lesson and only asks each celebrity to be their daughter a maximum of three times before moving on to another person.
“While no one has agreed to adopt me yet, I have gotten close,” Rita told reporters. “Like, one time, I DMed Angela Bassett and she said that she’d ‘think about it,’ but then she never followed up. I think she might have just felt bad for me, but I haven’t completely lost hope that she could still change her mind one day.”
Totally! She’d be lucky to have you, Rita!
As of press time, Rita had not yet found success with her unique job searching technique, but she is still determined to never go back to an online job database again.
“I guess I’ll just have to find a job the old-fashioned way,” Rita said. “By going door to door to celebrities’ homes and giving them a copy of my resumé, which is just a record of all the times I’ve made my biological parents proud.”
