I’m curious if it’s just me or not. I’m an SE with 10+ years of experience, mostly in full-stack with a wide variety of languages and stacks, and my last title was at the “staff” level. I’m almost 40 years old; not sure if age discrimination is much of a thing (my interviewers have been mostly around my age or younger). I’ve been looking for a job for months. I’ve been applying to just about every job posting where my skills match on LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter (mostly just the Easy Apply option lately, so I can send more applications out). I’ve even been applying to positions that just require 2+ years of experience; I’d take any job (except defense or big tech). I’ve probably sent something like 400 applications out at this point. I’ve gotten a few interviews, and think I did OK, but I guess not good enough since I was still rejected. Is this normal?
The last time I was looking for a job (2021), I only sent 20 applications out, and landed a job on my first interview. I also tried Upwork for a couple weeks, but wasn’t able to land any contracts. I think everyone there is either looking for very cheap devs in the developing world or rockstars with tons of contracting experience and large portfolios.
Regardless of who is the president the American empire is in decline. The United States is using Palantir, which is a web scraping tool mixed with language learning models that scrapes Twitter and uses open source intelligence to determine which targets to hit. This means some random goofball on the internet who plays around with maps can post something on Twitter and that night there’ll be a strike and so they will have to live with the guilt of blowing up civilians. This has already happened. https://web.archive.org/web/20250501204843/https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/us-yemen-bombing-x-osint So why on this tangent? Well, even the military is not using analyst. They’re cutting corners at every avenue. And this is not just Trump’s fault. Biden caused a lot of our problems too. We are a imperialist empire in decline. And so the only option at this point is full-blown world war. I don’t think it has anything to do with you or your age. Or is it young dumb and full of cum willing to work for crumbs? So basically what I’m saying is you might want to move out of the country or start a revolution. Both parties need to be overthrown kinetically… I think we drastically underestimate the unemployment rate in the United States. I think it’s around 23%. I mean sure we’ve got like really highly educated people working at low wage positions …welcome to the lumpkin pumpkin seems like all that hard work didn’t really pay off did it. You could get a job blowing up poor children in other countries by joining the military industrial complex. They hire some of the dumbest people so you definitely can get a job. And I’m not saying you’re dumb. You’re probably like really smart. But, you know, that’s an option. Let a sleeping dog lie. Go make some bombs better dead than red. https://youtu.be/_T9MHFldX1E
At least you have the ability to witness the United States drop a nuclear bomb on a country. Since the United States is the only country that’s ever dropped a nuclear bomb on a civilization. That’s something to look forward to. Witnessing history or the end of history. Don’t believe me? Oh well, I don’t care. We’re gonna have full hot war with Iran. The optics will be good cop bad cop. While at the same time Israel and the United States is going to create all types of hell all around the world. Also, we’re gonna witness the total destruction of Europe because the United States just wants to cut Europe off from Russia’s natural resources. We’re kind of like friendenemies us and Europe. To be of the ally of the United States, what a wild ride. Me personally I wish I was never born. What a waste of a life. I hope y’all don’t have kids.
http://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
https://youtu.be/Wh6hesHk6yE
Also, all the people being smug in the comments talking about throwing in the towel. 401 k bla bla bla…I guess live it up tricks… Just wait. Your dollar won’t go as far. And when you get older, your health care will bankrupt you. And because everyone else is suffering, but no one’s willing to fight the good fight, we’ll just lose empathy for each other. I’m literally watching what it’s like to live in America and die in America. It gets lonely and dark and sad towards the end. I’m surrounded by the elderly, and they all have the same problems. It will be You too. When you get older, your cognition starts to decline, but your ego continues to rise. People will tell you what you want to hear and they will rob you blind.