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... and now I'm job-hunting in earnest and jfcsstrrssfgchujbgfryhgftyhgerswww. I hope this is the right place to vent about this sort of thing, but I'm feeling so incredibly stressed and frustrated because I really want to change careers (TEFL teaching is a dead end, and the conditions have got so much worse in recent years) and I know I could do a junior frontend job perfectly well — I've put so much with into getting good at it in my own time — but it's beginning to dawn on me that there's basically no way in to the industry unless you know someone who can help you get a foot in the door.

I don't know where I'm going with this tbh — I just needed to vent somewhere — but it would be nice to hear any advice anyone can offer, or even just the lamentations of anyone with similar experiences...

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[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm working through a cybersecurity degree right now and honestly I sometimes question the point, it looks like tech is just dead, and I doubt with the west's decline it's gonna get any better. Same with the housing market.

Sorry to vent I guess, but weirdly I've been feeling less doomer about the world overall lately, but more doomer in terms of my personal life. Like, I actually have some faith humanity is going to pull through this, but I think things are pretty fucked for me where I am now and I don't really know what to do about it, maybe I should just go full Crust Punk and learn the play the banjo for wine cooler money shrug-outta-hecks

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