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You gotta change something up. Get a certification or learn a new skill if you have the savings to do it. Get a job in another field that hires everyone -- I
by jedberg 4y ago
You gotta change something up. Get a certification or learn a new skill if you have the savings to do it. Get a job in another field that hires everyone -- I once took a job as an SAT teacher while I was between jobs because at least it gave me something to do.
Volunteer. Especially if you can volunteer at a relevant industry conference, where you can at least mingle with people who might be able to give you a job lead.
Since you said you had 10 years of experience I assume you haven't gone through a downturn before (or maybe got in right at the end of the last one). It's tough but it's a numbers game. Eventually you'll find someone who is hiring, but you may have to do something else for a while.
- wincy 4y agoLast time I had trouble getting a job I just looked at what the most popular language was in my city. Then proceeded to read a book on C# and make a quick and dirty demo project. Had a job within two weeks after looking for months. It was kind of annoying switching to Windows dev but whatever do what you gotta do.
- hall0ween 4y agoHow did you find programming language popularity by city?
- wincy 4y agoI mean at the time like five years ago I just literally opened LinkedIn, searched for software engineering jobs, and did a tally of the first 200 jobs or so on a piece of paper. About 50 were C# and 50 were Java, and then a mixture of other stuff. Pretty low tech but it got me a job. I came from a background of doing Elixir and Node.js backend which if someone recognized Elixir seemed to get me brownie points for doing something interesting. I guess whatever site you’re using to look for job listings you could do the same.
- cvhashim 4y agoJob listings in your local area
- callahad 4y agoLooking at Meetup group membership / attendance used to be a pretty good gauge.
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- cvhashim 4y ago.NET core/C# is pretty dope though and its the most widely used in fortune 500s in the backend aside from Java. It’s much less verbose than Java and any Junior engineer can pick it up if they’ve worked with OOP based languages or even JavaScript.