I've been working as a code monkey at different agencies. The majority of tech I've worked with is niche and proprietary. It can only be used to land a job at another agency in this same field.I feel humiliated, overworked (officially it's 9-5 but in reality it's 70hrs a week). If I calculate how much I'm getting paid per/hr it's less than 25/hr. However, I wouldn't mind making less money if it's a stable job.I usually don't have time to eat lunch or even leave my desk. I don't feel like I'm viewed as a professional. The team I work with has 2 code monkeys and more than 8 managers. Even though we're an overworked skeleton crew management doesn't cut us any slack and they escalate things to director/VP level when we're behind on a timeline by even 5 minutes. The managers complain they're overworked but how is that even possible when the majority of their job is to forward our emails to clients? I know the standard answer is "networking" but I was introverted back in uni (commuter school) and didn't make too many friends back then. I haven't kept in touch with anyone since graduating. >have a wife and kids to support so can't really take time off to retrain for another career -- can maybe take a few classes or earn a few certificates>keep their things running / built internal tools with limited resources>built things in a short amount of time when our vendors solutions failed>have decent amount of savings (approximately 2 years worth of salary)>have almost 10 years of experience but most of that is useless outside of agency workcan post an anonymized version of my resume.
Any advice or am I stuck here?I've applied to more than 150 positions over the past 3 months.
this squeeze is by design to recreate post ww1 working conditions on specifically the tech sector so they do literally whatever their boss wants to provide for themselves/their familythey are in a hurry to replace as many people as possible with ai and threaten the ones who they can't replace with ai with replacement of imported workers who will put in the 70 hours for roommate wages once everyone left at the computer jobs is desperate and under duress they are going to do the mass surveillance hypercriminal atomic podstateeveryone has time to retrain for sales, but you specifically might be in a good position to pivot into an agentic army doing your bidding -- we may be at or extremely close to the inflection point of this being profitable
>>34471651>so they do literally whatever their boss wants to provide for themselves/their familyThe solution is to slice off their CEOs head with a samurai sword. Only then will the elite fear the wagie
>>34471690that's literally why they are doing the supersurveillance hypercriminal atomic technocrat podstate first, they saw those videos too
>>34471594150 applications in 90 days is weak. it took me over a thousand applications in 8 months to get a job in cybersecurity. stop selling yourself short. gotta bust ass if you want to beat the H1B's
>>34469963Turn that much savings into an asset to borrow against instead of having that much cash depreciation. Start an antique shop or some shit.
>>34471706America is a third world country. And it produces people who aggressively brag about what good slaves they are
>>34471706i started applying week after spring break of my senior year and had a job in June. literally just use the simplify GitHub, don't apply to anything that isn't 0d, do it early, and add the keywords to your resume template the plug-in says to doit's tedious but if you can't figure out how to optimize for the resume checker you were never gonna be able to figure out software
