So sorry to hear you’re out of work again. That seems to be the way it goes these days. All business is concerned with cheap labor, loyalty, high quality work, pride in product or results, good moral character, solid experience are out the window. They want workers like disposable diapers, cheap, quick on and off, absorb lots of 💩, and easily disposable. 
In the meantime have you any sidelines, what about the rest of your family? I’ve done all sorts of side jobs like tutoring, house cleaning, laundromat worker, attendant at ladies’ changing room in a store, driving for Amish and elderly, people needing medical procedures, babysitting, kitchen assistant, summer camp trail maintenance, live-in summer caretaker at historical house, gave tours four days per week, take in mending, worked at McDonalds, (hated it), bakery assistant, cleaned banks and doctor’s offices, proofread college papers, made and sold crafts, assisted to paint three story Victorian house, pet, plant, and house sitting, mowing lawns, shelving books at library, cashier at Woolworth’s, picked crops—-blueberries, strawberries, peaches, beans, did handwritten customized invitation, place cards, corporate greeting cards (calligraphy)…I realize a lot of these jobs no longer exist, but they’re just some ideas to keep food on the table. 

My cousin’s daughter got a temporary job in IT on ZipRecruiter. It’s with a contractor involved with an addition to a hospital. The pay is far short of a living wage but it’s better than nothing.  She had to move back home with my cousin when her job vanished in the c-sickness. She’s had nothing but low-pay, temporary, and part-time jobs since 2021. She’s 32, never married, no kids, and no more shack-up boyfriend. (One good result.) Her mother’s shack-up departed after he “cheated” in 2018. She’s 70 and still works because her ex took off in 2010 and cleaned her out. She does dog-grooming, a skill she learned in a high school vocational program. Both have now totally useless four-year college degrees in liberal arts. It was supposed to make you more well-rounded, therefore more attractive to prospective employers!  Employers don’t care one iota about such nonsense. Can you produce something or not? Are you quick about it and cost very little? 

The tech market is disastrous right now—my sister is about to enter it, and I feel you. But those who seek shall find. God provides.

Do you have an update?

More prayers coming your way.

THIS ^^^  

I just accepted a 2nd job today so it is possible to get a job.  I only applied on Monday and I'm already hired so it doesn't necessarily take months. 

Now the downside....it's 40% less pay and no benefits.  This is probably the new normal for now because most of the jobs I've looked at are paying much lower than they did 2 years ago.  I took this role just to keep income coming in but it's not even enough to cover basic bills so I will have to use savings.  And I'm still looking for a 3rd job.

I found this job on ZipRecruiter.  It wasn't even listed on LinkedIn.

You casually gloss over the downside.  Yes, depending on the position, it most certainly can and does usually take months (if it's possible at all) to make a lateral move at your current position and current pay.

What's happening is that there are many mid-level IT folks out there who are taking the entry-level jobs for much lower pay, since it's all they can get.  Yes, the employers will hire them and are happy to have them for these jobs, since they're making significantly less than they used to.

Those who are truly entry-level ... right now they have practically zero chance.

Same thing happened to engineering in the mid 1990s after Bush Sr. made some huge defense budget cuts after Desert Storm.  I had a younger brother who had just graduated top of his class in Mechanical Engineering.  He couldn't find ANYTHING, since all the entry-level jobs were being taken by mid-level engineers with years of experience, for entry-level pay, since they were desperate.  Then the senior engineers started accepting the mid-level jobs, squeezing the mid-level people out of climbing back out of the entry-level jobs, etc.

You can't extrapolate your position, where you're in a very specific discipline, and having to take a 40% paycut with no benefits into claiming that the job market is fine.

It's most certainly not, and it's a disaster despite your personal anecdotal claims.  Numbers that look at the entire industry and not a few execeptions, they bear that out.

Then, WHILE this is going on, MANY IT jobs are quickly going to be replaced with AI.  Many AI bots can do a FAR better job of simple Help Desk and Suppport tasks than most people, and they can remember and learn, and draw from the knowledge base.  I'm not talking about the little crappy plugin bots you see on websites that can't do anything, but the higher-end products like ZenDesk ... their capabilities can replace the vast majority of Help Desk pretty much right now.  You can even grant access to AI agents to unlock accounts, change passwords, etc. ... based on the same criteiria that human agents can use.

Next step is that AI is getting MUCH better at writing software, at coding.  MANY lower-level "coding clerk" types in the field are easily reaplced.  Microsoft introduced their CoPilot product along with automated AI agents just a couple months ago, and these things are amazing.  You can go in and assign programming tasks to these thing and they can run off on their own, figure it out, and submit code changes as "Pull Requests" as if they were regular developers in DevOps.  I am actually piloting an R&D at my company to try this out, and I'm certain that I can outperform a team of 10 developers by myself orchestraing these AI agents.  Easily.  Now, right now the AI is NOT bright enough where it can be effective without someone orchestrating them who really knows development and can call them on mistakes or misunderstandings or fill in missing requirements, etc. ... something most low-lever "coding clerk" developers simply cannot do.

What I see happening is that huge numbers of lower-level, from entry- to mid- level developers will be replaced, leaving Application Architecture or System Architecture level skills in demand, and possibly experiencing a fleeting uptick in pay.  It's similar to factories where are alot of jobs are being taken over by robots.  Well, you still need people who really know the process (better than an average workers) to orchestrate the robots, and then others to maintain them, perhaps tweak their programming etc.  Those types will be in more demand and will see an uptick in pay ... until THEIR JOBS too are eliminated by the advancement of AI and automation.

Similarly, I'd give it another generation, maybe 5 years, where even the Application Architecture types (like myself) will no longer be needed, and you could simply have business people (Business Analysts) dictating requirements to AI, even in just natural language, and the software will get written.  Business Analyst types will not necessarily see an increase in pay, since they needn't have superior technical proficiency ... or any at all really.

Of course, the ultimate goal, as both Musk and the demon Harari have stated will be that the vast majortiy of people will no longer be employable, as AI and automation can do a MUCH BETTER job at their tasks.  Now, this SHOULD lead to some kind of Utopia, plenty, abundance, etc. ... where everything should be able to become much cheaper, and, as these guys suggest, average citizens would then receive a Universal Basic Income, but would have no work.

So, these guys fret that without jobs, people would lack meaning in life.  Now, most of us would love to have the free time to do much more meaningful things .. study, acts of charity, pray more, work on hobbies, arts, etc.  So that would be a great situation.  But we know that's NOT their goal.  Once we're no longer useful, they'll find different ways to exterminate us, while also a the same time destorying souls.  They talk about how people would lose meaning without jobs and so they would have to be anaesthetized with drugs, entertaingment, things like video games, etc.  But they're not going to do that.  They will exterminate us.

Now, of course, the goal with UBI and also digital currency will be a control mechanism.  If people get paid via some biometric identity a digital currency from a central source (vs. different companies, and in cash, etc.), if someone does not comply with the latest government mandate or makes some comment on X that is "not nithe" (aka against the usual suspects), they can simply turn off your ability to buy and sell, and turn off your UBI, making it so that if you don't comply with mandates, including jabs and whatever else they throw at us, or you don't comply with the propaganda, you will be cut off and starve.  95%+ will cave, just like most caved at the flu virus during the fake Plandemic.  That was a dry run to test compliance.  If they release something with even 10% mortality (for real), if you walk outside to your mailbox without 5 masks on, you would immediately get lynched on the spot.  Or if people are starving, and your choice is to suck up to the Jews, for example, or starve, most people would suck up to the Jews, and then the next thing and so on.

THAT is where this is all going, and the leader of this agenda is Satan himself, and the goal is nothing other than the destruction of souls.  All other agendas and all other bad actors are subordinate to and subservient of these goals.

I'm not a US citizen but found this in my telegram feed. https://www.jobs.now/

The idea is to find the jobs not advertised mainstream. The jobs are very poorly publicised but it still means that employers have fulfilled their obligation to seek an american before offering the post to an indian. 



This seems to be working as the Indians are complaining that they have great difficulty in obtaining H1B visas.