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[–] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

I'm going to become homeless before I get an interview. I have ten years experience. I'm trying to keep my head held high and do self training. Even posting my Udemy certs on LinkedIn (I know they're worth less than toilet paper).

No one cares.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    20 years experience. 58 years old laid off by a thinly veiled pac masquerading as a no. Profit

    Can't even get a damn interview. It's been two years. I've quit looking for work and just started teaching guitar.

    I will never make good money again.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you're a developer

    I am. The company I work for was recently bought. I'd been there 8 years so I got a couple of months they're still keeping me on.

    But the guy that had 1 idea 30+ years ago got $30,000,000 for all the risk he assumed in hiring other devs with money he already had to build his idea.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't have any other options that don't involve unskilled labor. I'm also not a young man anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I was putting in about a dozen per day on LinkedIn and was getting nowhere. Then after a few weeks there weren't a dozen places left to apply at. So now I do that about twice a week and look up posts created in a week's time.

    My main skills over the last 10 years have been HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the React framework. I just got done cramming Python so I can learn Flask.

    Dice and Indeed have traditionally only gotten me third party recruiters and that never ends well or is profitable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you're a developer and finally have a job you need to work on pushing what the industry has always needed. Start pushing to start a union.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty trade unions don't require everyone to work at the same shop. I paid union dues when I worked doing screen printing in a shop that was me, another dude, and the owner who did all the design. That was the entire business and we were still part of the local painters trade union.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you don't mind me asking, what's your field?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Web Development and UI/UX Design. In practice a React Developer that used Figma for planning. Basically I would draw the site, then build all the visual elements, implement all the behaviors, and then hook it up to a backend built by someone else. I'm cramming Udemy courses to become a Full Stack Web Developer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I know it sucks to take on something that either seems beneath you or will be contributing to preventing you from getting a job in your field but have you considered things like call center work? It absolutely sucks but it's work and they accept almost anybody. Bonus is a lot of call center jobs are remote.

    Another option I am nervous to suggest but has been helpful to me is gig work through something like DataAnnotation or Babel? They are both companies that work in the domain of training existing AIs to be smarter and give better answers. The pay isn't top tier but its pretty okay for people with a background in programming (I think the programming work makes between $30 and $40 an hour, not great but not awful). I feel gross contributing to killing the jobs I could otherwise have but I try to remind myself that AI is still overrated for what it can actually do and that AI does have some beneficial aspects which are weighed down by a corporate class who only want to use it as a way to cut human workers out of the picture. I can also attest to these actually being real and having gotten paid for the work I did.

    dataannotation.tech
    babel.audio

    I hope this at least helps you get some meager income to stay off the streets my friend. I know they aren't the best options but sometimes that is the nature of life. If nothing else it gives you a foothold to get better/more valuable certifications.

    Edit: also for anyone looking for work in Washington state try Ecology Litter Corps through the Washington Department of Ecology. Pays decent and you help make the state look nice by picking up trash.

    https://ecology.wa.gov/waste-toxics/solid-waste-litter/litter/ecology-youth-corps

    EDIT II: @fayaz@lemmy.world suggests Mercor and says they have better rates than DataAnnotation: https://mercor.com/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been working for Mercor for the past 3 months. I think their rates are far better than what you mentioned.

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