If you look up my username on LinkedIn, you can get a good summary of my career. Most of my jobs have been go in, fix things, then on to the next thing; though the immediate COVID period was pretty bumpy in that regard (shorter-term gigs). I’m pretty sure I need another cert or two at this point, but have had some family issues distracting me the past few months from studying/focusing on what’s next. I’m also working three different things right now (1 5-10hr/wk PT job + 2 intermittent gigs). I can’t remember the job market being this bad or picky in my life; and I actively wonder how I’d be able to leave the field entirely. It feels like everyone wants a unicorn on the cheap these days.

Something with a “solid” 10-15/hrs a week would be an improvement over what I have going on right now; let alone full-time work. How do I even find such a thing on LinkedIn/Indeed/whatnot? Reddit’s gotten me at least two jobs in the past, but the state of things there seems to be less promising these days. I figured I’d ask here to see if anyone else is in a similar situation, and how they’re managing.

Thank you.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    I’m a new graduate and, fuck me. Programming jobs feel like the unreachable American dream.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      Computer related fields are a constantly changing tech stack. People either are constantly growing in their career, or they are falling out of date. That long in the field should either be extremely comfortable, issue with the individual, or lack of drive to be constantly challenged.

      The hardest part is the first job. After that should be constant career growth. This observation is only for the US job market.

    • @GalacticCmdr
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      11 year ago

      Hardly. As with most things it depends on location, but in the case of casting such a wide net as “programming jobs” it also depends on what you want to do. While it can be said that “Nobody goes into programming wanting to code Excel” but there are still plenty of just bs open to do stuff like that. You could make a solid life programming just MS Dynamics or Epicor.