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Reducing myself to the career mean of a midwest town sounds worse than checking myself into a mental institution.

Worst case maybe I'll join the military

It's really scary out there - I couldn't imagine what it would be like to not have any hard skills during this recession.

thanks - this is what I'm getting by on for now

This is a fantastic analysis. I didn't want to go here, but I do have direct knowledge from two final rounds I was passed over for that h1b visa holders were selected instead of me…

Hope things get better! Thanks for your thoughts :)

Thanks for your thoughts - but I'm not going to pat myself on the back trying to make the US median income. To be clear, I'd accept anything over $70k at this point.

this has been precisely my experience frankly, if an offer presented itself for $80k a year I'd take it (it's embarrassing but that's just where I am at the moment)

hard to say - just trying to figure it out

I've run out of options in my network and at this point I just need to make at least $70k before I have to resort to working at a UPS store or something that will cause my skills t…

Couldn't agree more - I'd even be open to an unpaid contract period before an offer goes fulltime.

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I've actually never really had issues passive system design rounds. I had to get through those to get to both on-sites I mentioned. It's partially why I started applying to solutio…

They've given some - all I've really received is "your solutions were interesting and passed the bar, but we proceeded with another candidate"

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We'll see - have a few leads but hoping to close one of them before November since all hiring grinds to a halt until the new year after November.

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Thanks! I really enjoyed the process engineering and problem solving of running my own companies. It's how I ended up managing a small team of engineers. I even lived in China for …

Looking for opinions from engineers in america.

I've had plenty of time to relax. Going forward I want options, and the best path to that is to pay off the small amount of debt I currently have and start making forward financial…

I can't tell if I'm just too stupid to pass them or if the market has suddenly raised the bar substantially.

Well, if your basis is a midwest state like Iowa with zero tech jobs - that might be accurate.

I built a bespoke IOT stack that currently runs over 10k devices and a full production line interface / deployment for a factory we used in china. I'm not going to define what "sen…

Thanks for your thoughts :)

Look up the average salary of H1B visa holders... I don't really have any interest arguing what a respectable salary on HN is. The recruiter I was working with clearly stated that …