• Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m going to become homeless before I get an interview. I have ten years experience. I’m trying to keep my head held high and do self training. Even posting my Udemy certs on LinkedIn (I know they’re worth less than toilet paper).

    No one cares.

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      20 years experience. 58 years old laid off by a thinly veiled pac masquerading as a no. Profit

      Can’t even get a damn interview. It’s been two years. I’ve quit looking for work and just started teaching guitar.

      I will never make good money again.

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        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.

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            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.

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        I don’t have any other options that don’t involve unskilled labor. I’m also not a young man anymore.

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            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.