Programming

Unsolicited advise incoming: Do you have any relevant work experience or are you even an employee? Of so: Great! Hold on to your job to as long as possible or get one.

I don't have a job and I have been trying to find one for like 2y now. The job market here in my country (Canada) is so messed up thanks to the government and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Thanks to the government for flooding the job market with way too many immigrants from the 3rd world who are happy to work like slaves for less than the regular minimum wage, subsidizing up to like 30% of their wages, intentionally not punishing the businesses for fraudulently selling LMIA's (which is illegal) for very high prices, and also allowing them to make a whole lot of money from giving the immigrants a whole lot of PR's! And the government keeps bringing them in for votes.

I have tried getting a job at places like McDonald's, Tim Hortons, Bar Burrito, the local grocery stores, bakery shops, .etc, but with no success. The people who work at these places are mostly immigrants from the 3rd world.

And yes, I have also tried asking my friends if their company is hiring, but that didn't work out, thanks to the government for destroying the economy as well.

Don't have anything against the immigrants themselves, it's just the bad government policies and greedy companies.

Well, I have no previous work experience like that, but I have a friend that runs a house renovation business and one who runs a concrete finishing business. Both of them I think also have lots of good connections.

What I was thinking I could do is ask them if they need a website or anything or know somebody that does and do stuff either for free or for really cheap at first. Also, focus on making stuff that's better and more complicated (I mean, not just stuff like simple landing pages) than what an AI or cheap programmers from places like India or China could do.

Having conducted technical interviews after managers have screened the candidates' resumes, I second this. Businesses absolutely look at example works, precisely because it's what they care about: it doesn't take a leap of the imagination that if someone has churned out excellent work for hire, that they can do it again once hired on.

It's a bit harder for prospective employers to take someone at their word without works that they can point to, or can succinctly describe said works in sufficient detail.

Or larger companies start to notice the large gaps in security affecting their bottom line due to reviews with large lines of code getting what's a rubber stamp at best.

I'm guessing this will take years though, companies tend to not care unless they lose large contracts and are happy to throw individual managers or directors under the bus to appease a client.