I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something else, and then had to piss away my savings while out of work. I was telling people at the time that that was the last job I ever planned on working in software.
Now I’m very close to just resigning and accepting I’ll never get out.
I relate to this. Golden handcuffs seem great until you're trapped in an expensive mortgage in a HCOL city in a career that you despise.
If you want out, I'd strongly encourage you to start investing in that education now. Working a day job and taking night classes is challenging but it'll start building a foundation to exit -- or at least provide some novelty. I took my severance and put it into an accelerated EMT program which is giving me some badly needed routes forward.
Regardless, I wish you the best of luck no matter where you go. Sometimes we just need to pay the bills for a few years and figure out next steps.
I'm trying to decide whether there is a real good opportunity to learn in that. If you are working full time and going to night school one night a week, and you don't feel excited on the day you have night school - you've chosen the wrong field to retrain in and will likely end up in the same place. Important information
Fine now, but I was out of work most of 2023. I was not prepared for this market.
> And if you're doing okay - what advice can you share to help those out there who may be struggling?
I hear the market isn’t doing much better. I was saved by the grace of a referral, but I’m confident remote work is dead for most reach workers. Part of the reason I was out of work so long was that remote was my one hard requirement. I was willing to take a massive salary cut for a remote role, but could never make it past the first round. For on site roles (which I honestly used for interview practice) I usually got much further. Even the job I managed to get started out hybrid, and now upper management is slowly trying to claw us back in full time, despite being warned of retention issues.
Ah yes, another fine example of the retardation of HN. Tell me again how this place has so much better discussion than [site you cry about constantly].
Yeah I have a few basic puzzle games and solitaire. Fine for wasted time and absolutely infested with ads.
I also have Civ6 on my phone, rarely play it though, the Ui on PC is much nicer. I bought it because I thought it would be neat to have on flights or something, but I wish I could get the dlc I paid for on PC.
I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something else, and then had to piss away my savings while out of work. I was telling people at the time that that was the last job I ever planned on working in software.
Now I’m very close to just resigning and accepting I’ll never get out.