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Thanks for your thoughts. I feel lost because I get the impression from my resume I look like damaged goods. I've had some recruiters give me solid pointers o

Thanks for your thoughts. I feel lost because I get the impression from my resume I look like damaged goods. I've had some recruiters give me solid pointers on my resume and things have improved slightly - but right now I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and wasting time trying to "make a living" doing this like I used to. Making less than my initial FAANG offer after college also hurts.

aristus 3y ago
Listen. I don't know you and you don't know me. But I know and you should know that no one is "goods", damaged or otherwise. You are not a broken toy. You are not and never have been a box of clever tricks arranged wrongly or rightly. You are a person, with talents and dreams and all the other things that you should never forget you have that make you a person. Labor markets are sometimes shit. Sometimes the skills you have are no longer in fashion. I don't know the answer to your situation. But, from experience, I suggest that if things are tight then the thing to do is find work that pays the bills today but also build skills that will pay off tomorrow. Life is long and it's only an always up elevator for the lucky few. I don't have specific advice, but I've found that it helps to analyze the business your company is in in the same way you would analyze the code on your screen. What are the inputs and outputs? What makes it all work? Etc. if nothing else, that might help understand why the labor market is shit, and what you personally can do about it.