How to Pick the Right UX Research Role

When I ran out of UX research roles to apply for, and still found UX jobs in general, I was definitely still applying. And it was very clear, like, this isn't really what I've been specializing in. It's not like I was doing anything else at the moment. But, you know, at the end of the day, I had one application where they gave us homework and I did the homework and I didn't do free work. Like, I figured out how to make whiskers plots horizontally in Excel because I thought that was the best way to present the data. You have to tweak everything to do horizontal whisker plots. That's not native. Excel is not