Dear Entitled Software Engineers, Take a step back. You're living during one of highest periods of unemployment and economic depression in recent history, and

Dear Entitled Software Engineers, Take a step back. You're living during one of highest periods of unemployment and economic depression in recent history, and you're complaining about being bombarded with job offers. Usually this is happening on LinkedIn, a website entirely about having a public resume that shows you are a good candidate to be hired. That staffing recruiter who is emailing you probably didn't dream of becoming a staffing recruiter - they took the job they could get. Most staffing recruiters are a recent graduates who were recently un/underemployed. They're working in a cutthroat, sink or swim environment where 40% of their coworkers won't be there next month. If they don't make their numbers, they're gone. Most of the jobs they work on are impossibly hard to fill jobs in an industry they don't know anything about. Those annoying staffing recruiters also provide liquidity in the labor market. Remember that 20K salary bump your new employer didn't blink at? That's because they know how hard it is to hire good software engineers and they understand the competition they face. Remember that time you were constantly being proactive about your career, always checking to see if there might be something better out there? Yah, I don't do that either, but a good recruiter will. Yes, there are terrible recruiters out there and many of them are annoying. But they do serve a purpose to both you and the companies you will work for. With every good there is a bad. You're lucky enough to be in a position where thousands of companies are desperate to hire somebody like you. It could be worse :) XOXO