Especially with this many people flooding the market all at once?
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There are plenty of jobs out there, I said no to 3 companies that wanted to move forward with offers. Then came across the 4th job that fit what I wanted, they made an offer, I said yes. Done and done. Sure it took a few months, but if you interview well you'll be fine.
Go into business for yourself.
Do some consulting.
Try new avenues of finding work. Do some research. Network. Quadruple your efforts.
Sign with temp. agencies to be placed for the time being.
Be flexible with expectations and parameters. Expand possibilities.
Say, "Yes" more than "No" within your own mind, and to others.
Promote yourself and what skills you have, to help others with their businesses.
"Find a need and fill it."
Be creative, innovative, industrious, relentless, fearless, and bold.
Plenty of soul-less IT jobs out there for about 20-25% of what you made before.
Or maybe pick up a job in private security. McDonalds isnt hiring much right because they now take orders with an AI bot.
Jesus Christ? Wasn't he on watch when all this cr-p happened? Didn't do anything then and won't do anything now...
@OP
Lots of previous posts say bohica, grab your ankles, and other "colorful" terminology. This is what they meant. You may have to subordinate yourself now.
Given we are headed into a recession, now would be a good time to retrain, change careers, go to grad school, etc. But since you already thought through your strategy and built your emergency savings I'm not telling you anything new. If I'm wrong about all that then you havr been sold up the river.
@OP Your assumption that somebody but you is responsible for your having a job is presumptious and wrong.
@a9 Look up ghost jobs, they are created for investor and algo triggers to bump the stock price. They wont actually hire for them. I can't name the companies but some rotate the opening randomly to look like they are desperate for people. There's some AI service that will detect the ghost jobs and ignore them, they interview with AI to make it all legal.
If y'all do some research you will find IT roles for which companies have a hard time finding people, plenty of jobs for those, honestly? Just prepare and adapt... or complain, whatever works for you.
Since COVID, I've met too many people in IT who do the bare minimum and/or aren't willing to keep learning. Most "Senior" devs lack design/architecture knowledge...
Downvotes are welcome, at least you read it and hopefully do something about it.
Become a nurse
Move to India. The bulk of tech jobs are going over there.
White collar, non APAC region, work and salaries are being eliminated.
Hard labor, bagging groceries, driving for uber, get your cdl and drive, or any of the many millions of other things. You're not going to get a tech job while they are quickly being converted to AI, thats a young mans game so pivot and prepare to get sweaty!
Oh and your big house, three cars and paying your kids college? that's gone, downsize, move to a much cheaper area, and live poor. you can make it on two full time minimum wage jobs if you go all out. Yes you will never see your family but you will provide for them.
The only correct answer is "git gud" in comparison to other applicants.