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Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
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#2Unemployed since April 2022 with 16 years of experience as a technical writer.
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#3I just said fuck it and am turning to my life long back up plan: military. I have consistently held a part time job in the military for moments like these. My military job pays much less than my long experience as a software developer allows but enough to cover all the bills. I was able to find an open slot for my next required professional military education course in the very near future which will allow me several months of runway to reevaluate civilian life and promote on time (in the military) next year.
As I become old it looks like I am vastly out growing software as a profession and will probably need a masters to become management, a principle, a product owner, or just go do something else. Software, at least web development, feels like a game nobody wants to play without either unrelated technologies and/or massive third party tools to do all the actual development. That means being between the concerns of a legacy tech stack or decisions dictated by expert beginners… just to get hired.
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#4Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out.
Having friends in the industry helps tremendously.
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#5I'm 5 years into my software development career, for now I am fine. But I am also making sure that my next possible job is already lined up. I'm not taking any chances with a single client, company or even a technology holding a decision over whether I can earn a livelihood; now or in the future.
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#6I just said fuck it and am turning to my life long back up plan: military. I have consistently held a part time job in the military for moments like these. My military job pays much less than my long experience as a software developer allows but enough to cover all the bills. I was able to find an open slot for my next required professional military education course in the very near future which will allow me several…
What stack are you primarily an expert in?
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#7I just said fuck it and am turning to my life long back up plan: military. I have consistently held a part time job in the military for moments like these. My military job pays much less than my long experience as a software developer allows but enough to cover all the bills. I was able to find an open slot for my next required professional military education course in the very near future which will allow me several…
I feel the same - but I don't really have a plan B
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#8I just said fuck it and am turning to my life long back up plan: military. I have consistently held a part time job in the military for moments like these. My military job pays much less than my long experience as a software developer allows but enough to cover all the bills. I was able to find an open slot for my next required professional military education course in the very near future which will allow me several…
I feel the same - but I don't really have a plan B
Most people don't have a plan B. This could drive an increase in the average programmer age.
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#9Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out. Having friends in the industry helps tremendously.
This is important. I didn’t have a good network through my 20s and burnt so much time in interviews, took jobs at lousy companies I didn’t know and so on.
My last 2 jobs were through contacts and have been fantastic.
Re: Unemployed for 8 months with 10 years experience. How is your job search going?
#10Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out. Having friends in the industry helps tremendously.
This is important. I didn’t have a good network through my 20s and burnt so much time in interviews, took jobs at lousy companies I didn’t know and so on. My last 2 jobs were through contacts and have been fantastic.
Contacts*