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I got laid off at the beginning of March, and the job hunt is fucking brutal. I'm a software engineer with 20+ years of experience, and it's just all AI now. Most companies just never respond, and if I'm lucky, I get to be interviewed by an AI chat bot, and then immediately rejected. I'm thinking about just going into the trades at this point.
They're still high on AI and the inevitable hangover is a few years down the line still. Maybe you can focus on your own software projects for a bit and take this time to do some work away from computers?
Most definitely. I got a generous severance package, so I've been doing tons of wood working, taking care of projects around the house, and hanging out with my kids. Unfortunately though, I'm a nerd and computers are my passion. I've done tons of coding projects in the meantime as well. It just blows my mind that someone with my education and career history can't find a job.
Yeah it's kind of crazy. I'm not a software engineer but my friends who are, feel like they're absolutely screwed. Spotify laid off 2500 people in Stockholm last year so there's insane competition for all jobs that do come out now.
The dumbest part of it is that AI means we need more engineers, not fewer. But it will take some time for the industry to figure that out.
As long as Daniel Ek can sleep at night....
I think we should make Daniel and Luigi meet.
Honestly, being unemployed is a good time to fuck around and find out for any pet projects that you've been like "I'll get to that... EVENTUALLY", so whilst you're looking maybe do some of those?
If you're lucky you might even make something that you can sell
But first and foremost the goal is to keep the mind busy, really, so that you feel less stressed
That's what I've been doing. Been archiving old photos, VHS tapes and documents that my deceased parents owned. Any tech job I've applied to has either yielded rejection or no response. Even for non-tech jobs like comic book shops or gaming shops haven't responded to my email inquiries about job openings.
I've also been playing a lot of video games, mainly PC ports like the recent Donkey Kong Land Remake, Banjo Kazooie Recomp/Lighthouse, Bomberman Hero Recomp, and Pokemon Gen1Recomp.
Another thing, even if it's with a site builder, having a website that's basically just "here's my resume" and linking it at top of your resume is statistically shown to improve replies.
Also, there any agencies in your neck of the woods? They're fucking vampires, but if you go in aware of that, you can trick them into finding jobs for you by not lying but being creative with the truth and lies of omission. And most don't charge, but instead go "we take 10% of your first paid wage"
If you did that and then landed another job in software part way through/after qualifying, it wouldn't be a waste of time, right? Because you'd still have skills for use on your own projects