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Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by wakawaka28 »

bruce511 wrote: post #254
w4ffl35 wrote: post #97

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I think it suks that your job got lost to a foreign worker. It's certainly no consolation that you are merely the latest casualty of globalization, along with your US manufacturing workers. I say that sincerely- losing your job suks. Of course the root of the problem, for you and steel workers, US that American consumers care more about money than where something is sourced. They buy the cheapest car, cheapest steel,…

>Social Security and Medicare are unpopular to cut, but its easily done, and a necessity to make significant cuts. I think the electorate has given a mandate to the govt to do this, do I expect they'll do it. (Trump campaigned on this, so its pretty much what people clearly want.)

No he didn't campaign on this. It's not easily done either. You're talking about people's families who paid into the system and were promised to be paid, and their kids certainly aren't going to be paying those bills when nobody is doing great financially speaking.

Maybe the government's promises can't be kept, but the politician that voluntarily casts the elderly into destitution or drastically increases taxes on workers is not going to last long.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by camdenreslink »

atrettel wrote: post #310
throwawayhn2024 wrote: post #73

I was let go from my last job. Also no CS degree. Had no LinkedIn either (deleted years ago). Had to create a resume from scratch. The only thing I had was about a decade of experience. I started by creating a resume and LinkedIn and aggressively optimized both as much as possible. Using a ATS checker I found online, I got a score of 96 for my resume after numerous changes (29 changes after a few weeks). I started ap…

I have to second the general notion that this is a numbers game. My own statistics right now show that for every 100 applications, I get 12 applications with at least one interview, and 3.5 applications with an offer. Those numbers are not great but statistically, if you apply to enough jobs, you can see that you have a good shot of getting at least one offer. Of course, that may require hundreds of hours of work. Bu…

Those were basically my exact application/interview/offer ratios when I last went through a job hunt. I can confirm it is basically a numbers game unless you have specific networked connections that can give referrals (and even then if the hiring manager doesn't like the look of your resume it doesn't really matter).

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by wakawaka28 »

bruce511 wrote: post #418
w4ffl35 wrote: post #302

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> Social Security and Medicare are unpopular to cut, but its easily done, and a necessity to make significant cuts. I think the electorate has given a mandate to the govt to do this, do I expect they'll do it. (Trump campaigned on this, so its pretty much what people clearly want.) Can you please point me to Trump campaigning on this? I heard him say the exact opposite repeatedly in his speeches at his rallies.

Trump lies all the time. So what he says and what he campaigns on are different things. He says he is pro-women (but acts the opposite) pro-US (but sources all his grift from China), says he wants to bring down prices (but plans on tarifs to raise them). He claims no affiliation to Project 25 (but then hires all those planners into key positions), claims to be pro-worker, but eliminates labor protections and gives ta…

All politicians lie.

>The American public are smart. They are not easily duped. They understand that when he says Social Security and Medicare are bring left alone, he intends to cut them.

That's ridiculous. Your central premise seems to be that because Trump has lied before, we live in opposite land. Not only that but that the American public is 100% behind the opposite of what they were promised, which is also very bad for them and their families personally. Your rationale makes absolutely no sense.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by wakawaka28 »

krapp wrote: post #102
w4ffl35 wrote: post #97

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On what basis? There is no right to employment in the US Constitution, and companies are simply practicing good capitalism by purchasing the most effective workforce at the lowest cost from a global labor pool. If you want to live in a society where your life has value beyond that which a market rapidly converging on slave labor and AI can extract from you, I guess maybe move to a country where "socialism" isn't a di…

No, "We the People" grant property rights and other favors to businesses. If they act against the best interests of the country then they can be appropriately taxed. There's no need to resort to full blown communism on account of unpatriotic behavior from our businesses.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by bruce511 »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #423
bruce511 wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump lies all the time. So what he says and what he campaigns on are different things. He says he is pro-women (but acts the opposite) pro-US (but sources all his grift from China), says he wants to bring down prices (but plans on tarifs to raise them). He claims no affiliation to Project 25 (but then hires all those planners into key positions), claims to be pro-worker, but eliminates labor protections and gives ta…

All politicians lie. >The American public are smart. They are not easily duped. They understand that when he says Social Security and Medicare are bring left alone, he intends to cut them. That's ridiculous. Your central premise seems to be that because Trump has lied before, we live in opposite land. Not only that but that the American public is 100% behind the opposite of what they were promised, which is also very…

Yes all politicians lie. But Trump doesn't lie like that, he lies about everything all the time. He lies about things that are obviously untrue, right there in front of you.

He's not a "liar" in the way most people are. He's a liar in the sense that you are in on the lie, that you understand the lie is a lie.

This is not "some of the act" - its his whole shtick.

Yes, I think most of what he does will be very bad for most of the people who voted for him. Yes I think they voted for the exact opposite of what is good for them.

But this is a guy with a 4 year term already behind him. This is a guy running to stay out of jail. This is the guy people voted for. More than in 2016, more than in 2020. More across all demographics. More in 90% of counties .

The voter understands the pain that is coming, and embraces it as necessary for the coming greatness. The willingness to put their own suffering aside, to willingly endure the oncoming hardships, to vote against their personal best interest is admirable.

At least I assume this is what happened.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by disambiguation »

Yoric wrote: post #76
underseacables wrote: post #25

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I think companies do this deliberately to avoid hiring Americans. The entire H1-B scheme is a disaster.

I'm probably going to be unpopular, but as a non-American, I actually find that hiring non-American is a good trend, especially if you want to sell all around the world. I don't have an opinion on H1-B specifically.

I guess everyone has a different idea of what's good. I find most people consider something good if it works out for them, and no more thought is given to the issue.

As for Americans, I think they have to question what their taxes are doing for them? They grow up receiving a sub-standard public education, they take on an enormous amount of debt to get higher education, and when they reach adulthood, the job market unceremoniously has nothing to offer them because its all being given away to non-americans.

What's the point of a nation anyway? What's a government's job? Maybe nationhood is an outdated idea and we should all bow to corporate overlords instead.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by [deleted] »

BadCookie wrote: post #391
irvingprime wrote: post #209

The longest period of unemployment I've ever experienced ended about 6 months ago. I was unemployed for 11 months. The company that finally hired me was intentionally targeting people with lots of experience. I have that. They also pay less than I used to make but I took it because I needed a job. Previous to that period of unemployment, my resume tended to get noticed. I got interviews from 3 applications out of 5.…

DEI peaked in 2020-21. Please stop blaming women and other races for the tech downturn. You are barking up the wrong tree.

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Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by slake »

binary132 wrote: post #117
Yoric wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm probably going to be unpopular, but as a non-American, I actually find that hiring non-American is a good trend, especially if you want to sell all around the world. I don't have an opinion on H1-B specifically.

do you feel that employers in your home country should also follow this rubric?

Even Indian software firms have begun to hire in Vietnam since they work 1.3x as hard for half the pay that an Indian does.

Re: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

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Post by LouisSayers »

xandrius wrote: post #327
LouisSayers wrote: post #227

I live in New Zealand, applied for 5 jobs in March 2024, got 2 offers (Atlassian, small startup - both Aus based remote jobs), the other 3 companies didn't move me past resume. I have a CS degree and over a decade of experience as a full stack dev. Maybe I just got lucky, but there have always been people out there that seem to apply for hundreds of companies and land nothing. I've also helped some of those people la…

I do think it heavily depends on what kind of salary you are looking for. Not sure how it is jn NZ but perhaps they pay less than in the US, and hence it's less competitive to remote outsiders?

Quiet possibly, I'm on the equivalent of $90k USD which would be considered as the bottom of the higher (or top mid) salary over here if that makes sense!
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