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?

  • MadhuGururajan
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    13 hours ago

    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.

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      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/