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?
I think one’s opinions on this issue come from if you need a developer or a job.
I personally empathize with the devs, since their rent money depends on being employed and a corporation will continue to function woth or without 1 developer.
Also at my office we don’t care too much about dev experience because we understand almost all software is either enterprise and doesn’t require devs, or unique to that one company and it will take the same amount of time to catch up a senior dev as it would to train a junior.
which office are you? I am missing such fresh perspectives. Everybody wants someone with 10 years experience in 5 different stacks on 5 different languages/tools.
I’m in the public sector.
Unfortunately due to the current administration, and the loyalist that was put in charge, we are under an indefinite hiring freeze. -_-
Idk about all departments so look around, but our department isn’t hiring and it’s kind of fucking things up.
https://www.usajobs.gov/