Crypto ruined my life. I used to be a successful web developer before I quit my job in 2018 thinking I could retire from crypto. Now I'm about to run out of the last of my crypto, I have no other savings left, and I have a 7 year gap on my resume in the toughest job market that's ever existed for programmers. I'm 38 and I threw away my entire life because of crypto. The entire second half of my life is guaranteed to be pure misery now, all because of stupid fucking internet coins. If I had never discovered crypto I'd easily be making $200k a year from a comfy WFH job now instead of being doomed to spend the rest of my life doing minimum wage unskilled labor while contemplating suicide on a daily basis.
you are about to make it just keep going forward
>>61254992dont worry anon, developer jobs are about to all disappear because of AIYou are just frontrunning your peers
>>61255005No I'm not. I have less than 8 months of money left, all in crypto, before I have literally $0. And if it keeps crashing at this rate it might be much less time. If it drops to $95k I'm planning on selling half of it so I can at least guarantee another 3-4 months of living expenses.
>>61254992Why would you quit BEFORE you made it sussy bakaAll you need is 500k split between SCHD, VOO and DGRO to live a comfy neet life
>>61255040Because at the time I still believed it was going to revolutionize the finance industry. And stop advertising your stupid fucking shitcoins, the only crypto I have left is 0.2 btc and I'm never going to buy any crypto again in my life.
>>61254992>38damn ur cooked unc
>>61254992I'm in the exact same position. I'm completely fucked.
Learn to mine coal
>>61254992You lack imagination. Just make up fake jobs and pretend you were working the whole time. Some companies don't even check.
>>61255069I put "freelance developer" on my resume for the past 7 years but I know it's not going to work because for every job opening there's 500 qualified applicants with verifiable experience working at a real company and no resume gaps.
>>61255085No shit, that's why I said fake jobs and not freelance. Do you want to survive or do you just want to feel good about yourself?
>>61254992>>61255058I'm not trying to kick ya while your down frens, but ho2 did this happen what did you guys buy? Did you not sell? I've been in since 2017 and have remained profitable. This cycle however was an absolute monster as far as trading skills go. On my short term trades I was getting absolutely wrecked until I made adjustments but the long term plays i still had worked out well. I literally was just buying top 20
>>61255097I can't just make up fake companies. That's the easiest thing they could check with a simple google search. And I can't lie about working at company I didn't work at, because they can easily contact them to verify that. I would also look visibly more nervous in the interview when they're asking me questions about what I did at a job that I completely made up. The best thing I can think of is to stretch the dates out for all my past jobs so it looks like I only recently got laid off, but I'm pretty sure they'll be able to verify that as well.
>>61254992i don't think crypto is to blame here. you're just holding it wrong. you need to have some kind of interest or dividend going like with any investment
>>61254992You don't have a 7 years gap on your resume.You have 7 years of experience as an independant crypto entrepreneur.
>>61254992kek so i'm not alone
>>61254992at least you had 7 years of freedom in your 30s, many retired 60 year olds would give everything for that. it also sounds like you retired early with less than 2 million, which is kind of retarded.
>>61255134how about companies that went out of business?
>>61255170Why would that look any better on a resume for a software developer? Even if I had a real job in some other industry for those 7 years, it would probably be just as bad for trying to get back into this industry. The industry right now is in a worse recession than it was after the dot come bubble burst.
>>61255134Meh, I can't help you if you get in your own way. At your current stage, you are 100% fucked, so every problem you listed still has a greater chance of succeeding.
>>61255199*dot com
>>61254992This thread is unironically a massive bull signal.
>>61255200>so tell us what you did at your last job>well uh you see I uh made this uh web app that uhThat's how the job interview would go. They would immediately be able to tell I'm making it up. I'm not a sociopath and I can't just blatantly lie to someone's face. My parents raised me to always feel a deep sense of shame from lying. I have been working on a couple personal projects on my own the past few years so that's the only thing I'll be able to really talk about and show in the interview. At best I can lie and say that I've worked on a lot of other freelance projects over the past 7 years but that I can't talk about them due to confidentiality or something. Not sure they'll buy that either, but I'm hoping that they won't even ask because of the recent personal projects I can show them.
>>61255100Got fucked by overinvesting in depressed assets connected to Cosmos. I've done very well over the last ten years, but managed to wipe myself out in the last eight months. Never had 90% losses, and never lost in this way, but it looks like insiders dumped everything on me and I'm stuck holding. I still own a house and some other things, but crypto has ruined my net worth beyond belief.
>>61255199Better than nothing.And work as a web dev is basically just React stuff nowadays.
>>61255263Ethics are largely dependent on the circumstances. Right now I would never eat a human, but if I was starving, there would be no choice.
>>61255052>the only crypto I have left is 0.2 btc and I'm never going to buy any crypto again in my lifedo whatever you want, and do it wholeheartedly to everyone else, your life and your decisions will be an insignificant and short-lived atomic jitter in the infinite ocean of the universelove you bro, hope you make it
>>61255027Your whole problem is you don't really know how to get a job. Many people think there is a stepwise, generic process for getting hired. That's bullshit. Employers don't care what you did in your previous life. They only care about what you can do for them, right now. They don't have any confidence in resumes and electronic applications, because there is so much lying. Lying is fucking tedious and everyone can detect it. You need to bypass whatever HR there is, and approach decision makers directly. With small businesses with owner operators, this is easier, because they're more accessible (and personable). For larger organizations, it's tougher but still possible. I wouldn't worry about gaps: like every other arbitrary reason that a prospective employer might reject you, it is something you can't control. Lastly, curb your expectations and be humble, but confident, in your ability to work with others.
>>61255343Maybe that's all true, but all of it goes out the window when there's hundreds of applicants to compete against for every open job.
>>61255263>At best I can lie and say that I've worked on a lot of other freelance projects over the past 7 years but that I can't talk about them due to confidentiality or something.Don't lie.Interviews are conversations about one of them possibly helping the other. That's all it is. In the course of that conversation, they learn about you, you learn about them and then you go on with your life. Later, they think about if you'll be a good fit for their current needs and if they like you and think you'll work well with others. A good conversation isn't dependent on your resume, its dependent on the interview. If you are interested and informed about what they do and can talk about what challenges they have, that interests them. They'll remember a good conversation better if you're chill and relaxed so internalize having nothing to lose.Don't take anything personally. Be prepared to start from entry level. Good luck
>>61255518That's not how job interviewing used to be in the 2010s. I would apply to a job, in the interview they asked me about previous work I've done pertaining to the job they're hiring for, maybe did a simple coding test (none of the insane leetcode shit I hear about now) to verify that I can actually code, and then got back to me a few days later with their decision. In fact it never took me more than a week from starting a job search to having a job offer back in those days. But the industry has been absolutely decimated now and the job market has become a mad max post-apocalyptic hellscape from everything I'm hearing now.
>>61254992> web developerHahaha good luck with that
>>61254992stop being such a faggot and just do a newgame+
>>61255447that's just the covid bubble show stats before 2020
>>61255447I'm tired of your excuses already. Believe me your best asset could be the groupthink that sinks everyone else: they're all thinking this. That's how you can win. Strategize, accept conventional wisdom. They're emailing, you're calling. They're waiting for the inbox, you're talking to the receptionist. They're copy pasting and sending resumes all day, you're personally delivering cover letters and resumes in an envelope to the receptionist, with the decision maker's name on it. You're networking in real life, they're shitposting online. They're getting unselected via AI screening, and you've got literally a foot in the door.
>>61255676If by that you mean applying to entry level jobs, that's pretty much my only hope. But I doubt I'll even be able to compete against fresh college grads. There's just too many of them now and there's probably always going to be someone who just graduated from a 10 CS school who's more skilled and still has a better resume than me with my 8 YoE working mostly for startups and small companies with a 7 year gap.
>>61255591All that means is, your competition is demoralized. For you, that's great.
>>61255681The chart starts in 2019, before covid even existed. Today there are 40% less job postings than there were in 2019, despite the population of the country growing by like 15 million and way more people graduating with CS degrees and looking for jobs than there were in 2019.
>>61255693You sound like an out of touch boomer.>just give them a firm handshake and you'll get the job
>>61255052The fact you didn’t realize those are ETFs and not shitcoins is the problem man. It’s fine to gamble on crypto, but why did you put all of your money on it instead of researching other investments first? Chasing that 10x bro? It’ll get better still. Just go back to work, and put whatever money you can into viable long term investments. Anyone can grow to be less retarded!Also beef up your shitty resume with AI or something. Sounds horrible but it worked for me. You can show them you’re not just a liar during the interview process and actually demonstrate your worth.
>>61254992imagine not being able to figure out how to trade not like a retard in 7 years
just tell them you were crypto rich for a while and didn't have to work then lost it?
