• DeafFromLinePrinters (unregistered)

    Eagerly -- not anxiously -- awaiting further installments. I'm already taking notes, and fully ~~expect~~ hope for this to be one of the most informative things I'll have read in ages. Way better than the usual morning chuckle post.

  • A Gould (unregistered)

    My kid just finished a job hunt, and I was unpleasantly surprised at how much AI/automation has un-improved the experience. (And how employers are still doing stupid things like "trainee wanted, minimum wage, require three years experience". (Um... if I have three years experience then I'm trained, ain't I?)

  • J. Random PMP (unregistered)

    Thank you for sharing this. I know that this is usually a humor site but I, along with many of us, are on this journey with you.

  • (nodebb)

    Your writing is excellent. Job hunting is hard. Keep moving forward because it is the only way out.

  • (nodebb)

    GO ELLIS! GO ELLIS! GO ELLIS!

    My son is starting a job today after a discouraging search. Jobs are out there, and one of them has your name on it.

  • Jonathan (unregistered)

    Good luck, Ellis!

  • Faroguy (unregistered)

    You can do it! Beat the AI auto-rejections!

  • Corey (unregistered)

    Best of luck, hope you get a position soon! So frustrating to see AI used in ways that makes things worse instead of making things better.

    BTW... Sword and Starship Book #3? Can we haz now?

  • GW (unregistered)

    I've been on that ship 10 months and counting now. Something has to break soon.

  • (nodebb) in reply to DeafFromLinePrinters

    Way better than the usual morning chuckle post.

    The usual Ellis Morning chuckle post?

    Also: Good luck, Ellis! Brutal techie job market is brutal, but hopefully this (s)too(l) shall pass...

  • Hasseman (unregistered)

    I am also searching for a new job at this moment.

    Most companies advertisements ask for an: "Expert taxi driver with 10 years of experience, able to drive a car, and having a taxi- and a driving-license. "

  • TrueWill (unregistered)
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    Thank you!

  • (nodebb)

    Good luck Ellis!

  • fgz (unregistered)

    I feel you. I've been trying to find a new job for the past 4-5 months as well. About two years ago the company I worked for got bought out, and everything changed. The team was taken apart, moved to other departments, while leaving only a skeleton crew for the original product. 20 something developers reduced to only 2.

    I got moved to a project from which all the original staff got fired. Ever since then my "senior software engineer" title got expanded to "senior software engineer, devops engineer, sysadmin, 24/7 on-call SRE, UI designer and dumpster fire specialist - treated as junior staff." My typical day consists of fixing mind-bending bugs, then suffering to implement features into the obsolete codebase, while having 99% of my proposals for improvements and refactoring dismissed at the meetings with management.

    After about a year I hit a low point, when my mentality eroded to the mentality of my new co-workers: do the bare minimum, sit idle for most of the day, and grab the paycheck. At that point I even considered switching careers all-together.

    Then I somehow managed to pull myself out of that pit by starting to write some short stories, even started drafting a novel. Not that I'm good at it by any means, but it let my brain breathe a little, feel a little creative again.

    And now I'm looking for a new job. And I barely manage to get to the interview stage. And even when I get an offer, a misalignment comes up that I mentioned at the very beginning is a deal-breaker for me (like working in a totally different timezone)

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