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I'm currently dealing with it by simply holding on to my job. In prior markets, I might have began seriously looking for another job after ~1.5 years, but not
by ravenstine 3y ago
I'm currently dealing with it by simply holding on to my job. In prior markets, I might have began seriously looking for another job after ~1.5 years, but not now. My job pays well and is flexible enough, mostly outweighing the negatives. If I lose that job, I have access to about a year's worth of expenses, and a little more than that if I sell tangible assets like my motorcycle, but I really hope I don't have to do that.
For the long term, I'm trying to figure out whether I need to retool my skills. I'm very tired of web development and the lack of craftsmanship in the field, and I think such jobs are going to be chronically in decline due to things like no-code and AI. Also, once there is enough of a collapse that only the most talented survive being laid off, those experts will clear the detritus and further reduce the need for "engineers" to play janitor with codebases. So if I still want to be a programmer, I think it's got to be in something else. Rust? Clojure? COBOL? Hardware development? Game dev? I don't know.