the Cane's interview was fine. big contrast from being on an hour and a half zoom meeting with two people. It was just about 5 minutes, between tables full of screaming children, basically told me what was available, I told her my preference and what I was looking for etc, and then she said she'd be in touch soon. Okay. Cool.

She asked what my career was before and I told her DevOps and she burst out laughing. She was like, AI huh. Yep. So I'm not the first person in there telling her that.

@ghostradio Good luck. A friend of mine here was having trouble getting a job and he thought it might be his resume gap. He realized that his Uber Eats work could count, and when he updated his resume to add that, he got a job at the very next place he applied.

I realize this is anecdata and may have been a coincidence. But if jobs continue to elude you it might help to add something to plug the gap - volunteering counts so even if you don't have consulting work to add or anything like that, you could volunteer somewhere and get that on there.

@AngelaPreston I have the game development and web stuff covering any gaps, it's just extremely difficult to find work now, even getting past the AI bots is difficult and if it rejects you, there's no person on the other end to qualify why it rejected you. I've applied for over a thousand jobs easily, I've managed two interviews in 9 months, both passed on me. And of all the people I kept in touch with from the layoff, most if not all of them are still in the exact same boat.

@ghostradio It's awful right now and I'm so sorry. I hope something comes up soon. AI needs to die a fiery death.

@AngelaPreston it will, they have no profits and no power to support it, but the bubble isn't bursting soon enough. The corporations who threw away their work force like trash for some dream substitute where they can get the job done for free, they need to be held accountable for the crash that's coming.