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20 years of experience and a degree and “Udemy” certs here. Took me 6 months and 250ish applications to find a crappy job in my field.
If you’re a developer, this isn’t the right time to be getting a job. I haven’t made this little since 2012. You’re better off finding a different path.
I am. The company I work for was recently bought. I'd been there 8 years so I got a couple of months they're still keeping me on.
But the guy that had 1 idea 30+ years ago got $30,000,000 for all the risk he assumed in hiring other devs with money he already had to build his idea.
I don't have any other options that don't involve unskilled labor. I'm also not a young man anymore.
I hear you buddy. How many applications are you putting in per day? It sucks, I know, but you should be doing like 20 a day. Are you using the other sites like dice, indeed? Is there a specific technology that you have been using primarily for the last 10 years?
I was putting in about a dozen per day on LinkedIn and was getting nowhere. Then after a few weeks there weren't a dozen places left to apply at. So now I do that about twice a week and look up posts created in a week's time.
My main skills over the last 10 years have been HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the React framework. I just got done cramming Python so I can learn Flask.
Dice and Indeed have traditionally only gotten me third party recruiters and that never ends well or is profitable.
Yeah, I stay away from recruiters these days. They seem to have one thing for me and if I don’t get it than they never consider me again. That’s not how recruiters are supposed to work lol.
Do you have a portfolio or GitHub with some work on it? I ended up having to put a bunch of random crap on GitHub. I don’t think anybody looks at it they just want to see something there.
Also, how is your resume looking? Have you gotten feedback on it? I recall there being a Reddit community specifically for resume help. And whenever you can, you should send a—cover letter—I just threw up a little. It all feels like such a waste of time…
Most of the places I interviewed with are looking to go full serverless, so that’s less interest in Flask—but I still saw a fair amount of Python gigs.
I got shot down a ton because my background isn’t really in serverless stuff. Sure I can do it, but it’s not what my work experience shows. I ended up just putting AWS, and all those others, on my resume even though I’ve not actually worked with it in production.
Right now I’m with a company who is using SvelteKit on Cloudflare, and it’s lovely. However, the Svelte market is really small and I’m not sure how well that will help me if this company fails.
I'm actually aiming for AWS certs so hopefully my stack will be applicable.
If you're a developer and finally have a job you need to work on pushing what the industry has always needed. Start pushing to start a union.
Impossible with how developer jobs work outside of major corporations. I’m not saying I wouldn’t want it, but it’s wildly unrealistic.
Pretty sure trade unions don't require everyone to work at the same shop. I paid union dues when I worked doing screen printing in a shop that was me, another dude, and the owner who did all the design. That was the entire business and we were still part of the local painters trade union.
That’s not what I mean.
So how would this work? Like SAG?
Amazon developers get treated like shit, and I work for a local place where I am not. Amazons wanna strike—do I have to? Fuck that. Fuck anyone who works for Amazon.
What’s the actual benefit for ME? Higher wages? Doubtful—my place can’t afford Amazon rates.
The anti-union propaganda is so deeply ingrained in you that you didn't even pause when you typed they out.
Come on bud, sell me on how a trade union is gonna help all software developers, and not just those at abusive companies like Amazon, google, etc. I’m not anti-union at all, but I very much doubt it would work for my industry.
Found the ML, all insults and no solutions.