CS degree is kinda useless, right? I haven't slept the whole night applying and thinking about this...
It's so bad, that my folks actually sent me an article and said "Oh my God, you were right" about NYT reporting on ghost jobs.
Half of those jobs probably aren't even real. Even at my current job, one of the higher-ups admitted they had no intention of filling one of the roles we have online and said he only keeps it there so he can, and I quote, "shop around for any potential unicorns".
I did my masters in agriculture. I have tried research jobs or teaching jobs or even production related work towards what I specialized. I attended multiple interviews since 2022. I got selected for none. I also do the whole applying for jobs as you mention. They call back usually to ghost me further. I live in India.
Same, India here. What's painful, you know? Getting rejected from a crappy internship that pays you ₹2k-5k. And I spent around ₹20 lakhs for my education. And uneducated rapists get to be our elected representatives. This neo-liberal shit-hole failed us.
When I was growing up, everyone was told that if you went to college you'd be able to make a good living.
Then it was, "Oh actually, you need a STEM degree, then you're set for life. You didn't think your bullshit degree would count, did you? Lol, learn to code"
Now it's "Aktually, you should have gone to trade school and become a plumber. You didn't think that CS degree was going to do anything did you?"
And trade jobs still generally require investing in a work truck or van plus thousands of dollars in tools. Also hope you live somewhere with a garage to put all of that equipment.
You also better hope you don't get injured doing the manual labor required and become unable to work
I didn’t go to college, but I still feel for you guys because in reality even if the roles between us were reversed, we’d both be fucked either way. In conclusion no war but class war.
I work in a CS job and I'm noticing companies don't really hire permanent staff they prefer to get boatloads of temporary resource from agencies and consultancies. My team is 4 people big and the 4th person took us like 3 years of begging to get approval for hiring. Yet we onboard entire armies of contractors and throw them out 6 months later year on year.
Maybe the consultancies are hiring. But its a miserable job to have. If you end up in a consultancy/agency we may end up passing by eventually haha
So what do I do now? I've already spent two years jobless. I'm so tired. My laptop is also broken now, and I'm using my dad's potato PC with barely enough RAM to run a browser, disabling GUI and using TTY sometimes for heavier tasks. After last September, I've lost the energy to do anything meaningful. I've probably not written a single line of code, after contributing to open-source projects like a maniac, and getting burnt out.
Try this if you have low RAM, I lived with it for months when I had a broken DIMM and had to make do with 4 GB. The difference is incredible.
/etc/tmpfiles.d/zswap.conf#Type Path Mode UID GID Age Argument w /sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool - - - - z3fold w /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor - - - - lz4 w /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled - - - - 1/etc/sysctl.d/00-swappiness.confvm.swappiness = 100Depending on your workload you may increase swappiness to 200 with good results.
You need to set up some 8 GB of swap, it's mostly for accounting purposes and will barely get used so it can be anywhere. If you already have zram, disable zram, it's counter productive. Use the
swaponcommand with no arguments to check if you have zram.I think what you've configured is probably the way to go around in FHS-based distro - using config files. I am on Guix (btw), and I already have a swapfile partition configured when I set up the system configuration:
system.scm
(use-modules (gnu) (guix packages) (nongnu packages linux) (nongnu system linux-initrd) (...)) (operating-system (...) (swap-devices (list (swap-space (target (file-system-label "swap"))))) (...))Here's the size it was allotted:
$ swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/sda2 partition 7.4G 724.5M -2
Im keeping a spreadsheet to maje a graph, its my main motivator because i feel so downtrodden trying to find work, its bleak
get some sleep comrade
I think it depends where you're at and what you're looking for. I've never really had much of a problem getting an IT job anywhere I've lived, but in some places like in the midwest, I had to go with contract-to-hire jobs rather than just going for fulltime jobs because there just wasn't the market. In the bay area there are bazillions of IT jobs so I could quit today and start interviewing by next month and probably have a new job the month after that, which I've done a couple times now. I don't have a degree, but I went to college long enough that I should have had one. I know a lot of people beat themselves up over rejections and not hearing back but that really should be expected. No one is going to fit everyone's need and a lot of companies get hundreds of applications per job so sometimes they don't even see your application. But just keep applying and you'll get some hits... its just probabilities imo.
I feel this pretty hard. I got fired last July and spent 8 months straight applying for about 10-20 jobs a week.
I have a degree in programming as well. It took my 6 years to even get a programming job even though I graduated top of my class. I've pretty much since given up and am hoping to get a freelance web developer thing going here in the next few months after a bit more work on some things.
My angle is that if we are having this issue others are too and after the AIpocalypse, everyone is gonna do their own crafty or handyman business thing since they won't have corpo jobs either so I can make them sites.
Or at least that's my daydream.
In any case, solidarity ✊
