… and now I’m job-hunting in earnest and jfcsstrrssfgchujbgfryhgftyhgerswww. I hope this is the right place to vent about this sort of thing, but I’m feeling so incredibly stressed and frustrated because I really want to change careers (TEFL teaching is a dead end, and the conditions have got so much worse in recent years) and I know I could do a junior frontend job perfectly well — I’ve put so much with into getting good at it in my own time — but it’s beginning to dawn on me that there’s basically no way in to the industry unless you know someone who can help you get a foot in the door.

I don’t know where I’m going with this tbh — I just needed to vent somewhere — but it would be nice to hear any advice anyone can offer, or even just the lamentations of anyone with similar experiences…

  • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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    For me, it’s hitting a point of "I need to be doing something in computers that isn’t customer-facing for my paycheck, or I’m going to drop a settler dead in front of my till for mouthing off at me like I’m not a human being within the next seven years."

    tl;dr mental self-preservation more than anything.