Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

Assuming you did the course work and passed your classes, I'm guessing you're feeling some serious imposter syndrome. Many people get jobs after going to a 3-6 month coding bootcamp, and you just spent 3-4 years learning and letting all that knowledge slowly sink in.

GPT4 isn't doing the architecting, planning, understanding priorities, what should be built first and how, according to company needs and your own or your teams abilities.

If you understand what you're doing and are willing to work hard, you've got a valuable skillset- likely more than you realize.

Get an office admin temp job where they use a lot of Excel? They’ll think you are a genius.

Random personal opinion: get a masters degree, researching computer vision or NLP, or something that hedges you against AI. Or if you are inclined, do a PhD.

Also you sounds like you are a bit burned out. Translating sounds even much more AI-replacable than CS -- don't do that if you fear CS.

(Also Blind is toxic albeit informational! Call up some people. Ask me; or ask HN or some less negative places for how the industry is looking.)

You need to look to work through a recruiting agency.

You work for that recruiting agency, they find you interviews, you pass and get a job, you work, client pays them money, they take their cut, the rest goes to you.

Write me an email to this address

temp.dl9bv@simplelogin.com

and I will send you the name of the company that got me into the field.

I recently got a call from a recruiter from that company saying there were a lot of layoffs and they are looking for past employees to fill in positions. So there is work, you just have to know where to look.

Companies don’t hire directly. Companies hire through recruiting agencies, and often there can be more than 1 recruiting agency in between. For 2 jobs that I worked there were 2 recruiting agencies between me and the final client.

Your answer is predicated on the ability to get into said career.

Do many jobs list "humility" as a qualification they are looking for?

[Edit]

As a primary qualification, and not a company value or whatever.