This is a tough market. It will be difficult to find opportunities but if you do find an opportunity, it's more likely to be a good one. The downside of a tech

This is a tough market. It will be difficult to find opportunities but if you do find an opportunity, it's more likely to be a good one. The downside of a tech boom is that there is too much easy money floating around some companies and this causes industry standards decline. The workplace becomes political; it feels chaotic and non-meritocratic. It's easy to lose passion for your work when nobody can recognize its value and nobody cares about things like efficiency and maintainability. I'm a senior developer with 15+ years of experience and I've recently had to accept a 2 month contract for almost half my normal pay to build a new system from scratch. Unfortunately, when experienced, highly productive developers are willing to take such huge pay cuts, it pushes all the less experienced devs out of the market completely. I would recommend trying to join a startup or a small company (or start your own on the side). Find tech companies whose customers produce real, obvious economic value. For example; the business' main customers are in farming, mining, construction, manufacturing... The past decade in tech has been fueled by low interest rates and massive money printing and has mostly been about zero-sum activities like surveillance and manipulation... IMO this should start to change now.