I'm not sure how the number of jobs someone has applied to relates to how easy or difficult life is. Is that your experience? Speaking of IT specifically, the

I'm not sure how the number of jobs someone has applied to relates to how easy or difficult life is. Is that your experience? Speaking of IT specifically, the folks I know who have applied to lots of job did that either because they apply for the wrong jobs for their skills, or because they job-hop to get raises more often (which is totally fine, of course, but feels like a self-inflicted difficulty level increase in the game of life). The folks not in IT that I know (mostly family, so I know them very well) have a not-easy-at-all life mode (in fact, they often rely on financial support from me and other family members) yet they don't apply to many jobs. There's a very specific case I have in mind of a close relative who works in the tourist industry (in a kitchen) and despite several attempts from me to encourage her to apply to jobs in other industries (because her line of work sucks terribly bad compared with IT, not just the pay, also the long, unpredictable work hours, unpredictable free days, work accidents, the probability of which increase with the long hours, to the point that she ends up in the ER at least once a year due to a very nasty cut or burn) doesn't do that because her work/life balance leaves her exhausted enough that she can't think of spending the time and energy to apply for another job. So here's a person in her early 30s who's probably applied to, max, 5 jobs in her life, and most definitely does not have life on easy mode.