Yeah, it wasn't lost on me that a lot of job listings are fake, even at the time (I think I even wrote comments saying as much on this very forum). I did reach

Yeah, it wasn't lost on me that a lot of job listings are fake, even at the time (I think I even wrote comments saying as much on this very forum). I did reach out to contacts asking if they had openings but of course that's a finite set and most of them told me they didn't. What I had tried to do was start randomly requesting connection invites with people on LinkedIn in fields I was interested, and a surprisingly large number of them accepted my requests, but that didn't actually pan out to anything productive, which is a little depressing. I hope I don't get laid off from my current gig, because now I really don't have a clue on the best way to find a job. Maybe I could try that "CEO at a big corporation" thing, it doesn't look too hard and apparently you can lay off half your staff and still be rewarded.