I got laid off in March as a software engineer 2 and since then I’ve hardly applied to many jobs, of the few I’ve applied to I got a handful of interviews which I couldn’t even clear the first round of Leetcode test. I can barely solve 1 or 2 LC questions a day, and I’ve tried to read system design for a while but can’t find any interest in it. Even if I solve the interview questions we’ll I’ve been rejected, everything feels so pointless. I just want to play video games and watch movies till these darks days pass and there’s another boon in tech hiring. But with AI it feels like many jobs won’t ever come back. Should I consider changing careers or moving to another country. I don’t think I have any real passion or talent for programming, but it’s the only skill I have right now. I don’t know what level of panic I should be feeling right now. I don’t have any close friends or supportive family to talk to about any of this.
Grinding LC questions just makes me feel worse, because i know that being good at those won’t guarantee me job security. If i’m going to have to blast through rounds of torture, just to be laid off 3 month later, what’s even the point.
This is one of the few industries, where the demands keep rising exponentially, with no regard for peoples wellbeing
On a road to nowhere, on tracks coming to an end, on a planet with finite resources. Exponential Feedback Loops, a Society on Life Support with no… Concerns for Tomorrow. A fuck boy, with short-time goals.
Yeah, we keep like switching things up, but really like honestly where’s the societal good? Like, I’m not impressed by anything I see these days, right? Like there’s no innovation, games are terrible, movies are terrible. Like the same circus that brainwashed us all, and our parents, is falling apart itself. There’s no carrot to chase after other than sustenance and survival. Which probably could be the calm before the storm. Like I know you’re not alone. There is a problem with the way things are being ran right now. And even during Biden. All I see is a world of broken promises, over promise, and under deliver. Lowest Common Dominator Slop. A World of Diminishing Returns. If you lower the bar so low when it comes to expectations because you have monopoly, then you can run this shit with no hands. And as it falls apart, who cares? Because you’re only mortal thinking about tomorrow or the next generation is just not in the rugged individuals interest. America is a labyrinth of humiliation as the matador chases you around tormenting you. A world of winners and losers. It’s like North Korea with a mixture of Disneyland and you forgot your wallet. A empty vessel of lesser things, a pit of despair. And you know what’s crazy. The countries that we interfere in and dominate have it worse than us. There just hasn’t been any human progress.