They don't want people who can easily walk away. They need you to live paycheck-to-paycheck in fear of losing your job at all times.

Job interview in 10 minutes, planning to say essentially this if they ask about my 2 month job gap. Will update if it goes poorly.

Especially when in a hiring mindset, employers can see it as you being undesirable or lazy, maybe even covering for quitting before getting fired and being out of work suddenly and without a plan. "If you were such hot shit, why aren't you jumping from job to job, higher and higher up the ladder?" That kind of thing.

What's important to keep in context is that typically one provides relevant job experience on a resume. Not all job experience. So gaps might be actual work, even.

Typically if you can have a good excuse and say you did something productive with the time, it's fine. "I was looking for work for 6 months after we moved and it was a tough market. I spent free time helping with a local community gardening project" would be totally acceptable. "I took a 3 month break to go work on an organic farm" is still work, just not relevant to your job application at Cinnabon or whatever.

Why do you assume it's a bad thing? It's no more a bad thing than asking about your previous job is a bad thing.

You renovated your house? Cool, so you are a resourceful person, maybe you can also be asked what did you learn while doing it. When I ask that question people often speak about their hobbies, or side hustles, or learning, or family obligations, it's almost always something positive about the candidate or their character.

There isn't a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn't have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.

The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.

They want desperate people who will take abuse not so.ebody thst has optiond.