I’m a 25 yo British guy. I landed my first job as a dev in 2022 for a consultancy with a 1 year international placement, it was good but a few months after returning, the whole cohort was laid off due to corporate politics between the offices in the two countries. After 7 months of searching, I got my second job working for a small pensions fintech startup, it was fine but I didn’t find it all that fulfilling. After 9 months of working there, the CEO pulled me into a meeting and said they’d made a mistake hiring me and they needed a more senior developer who could help steer the company from a business perspective too, so I was once again laid off.
That was in January, since then I’ve had 2 interviews, both of which have gone nowhere. The vibe of every position that’s matched my CV has basically been the same sort of work- pretty mundane web dev roles and I can see myself being pulled into a cycle of mundane work then being laid off. I’ve wanted to be a developer for as long as I can remember, I started writing code when I was 12, studied CS throughout school so I could go to uni and do it for my degree - but now, I feel so disillusioned with the whole industry, where do I go from here? Does it get better? How do I find a job that actually feels fulfilling?
Sorry for the ramble, it’s 4am and I just happened to stumble across this community while scrolling. Thought it might be worth an ask.
TLDR; been laid off twice in about 2 and a half years, feeling pretty disillusioned with everything, where do I go from here?
The UK economy is in the toilet they put it on you instead of just keeping it real. “They made a mistake” my arse. Just keep at it just like the rest of the working class. Don’t develop a negative complex. Peaks and valleys, the work place is adversarial this is how capitalism works. They never want to train. They only want to gain. And once they squeeze your juice, they throw you out. Who do they serve but themselves in the hierarchy shit rolls downhill.