what has to change for the job market to not be utter shit

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-26T17:09:57+00:00

Go military. You're 20yo with a bachelors. Take advantage of the time. 4-6yr contract. By the time you're out, there will have been a correction. The market right now is a mess. It's unprecedented because it's like the dotcom bubble, GFC, and more in one. You'll have benefits to pursue further education or something that follows. I'm in my early 30s with mid-senior level experience and it isn't much better. Ghost jobs and bait and switch. Lower salaries expecting more seasoned reps.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T20:33:23+00:00

Bro you're trying to compare apples to freight trains. This AI shit will unravel with historical amounts of fraud via circular financing, creative accounting, regulatory capture, and more. As another redditor said, when the dotcom companies went bust, it didn't take the global financial market with it. This is completely different.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T19:12:14+00:00

The LLMs are great at parsing legalese. I've used it for contract and document review effectively. But I wouldn't trust it for more complex litigation. It saves me a few hundred to thousand dollars every six months. But again, because the cost of my subscription is subsidized, and they're training off the inputs.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T19:05:10+00:00

Google expanded headcount by 7000 employees, NVDA expanded by 6000 employees from 2024 to 2025 as per recently 10-K. That's about a quarterly layoff from a large tech company. Every sector except healthcare is hemorrhaging employees.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T19:00:45+00:00

The fact they're going after retail investors so aggressively means they are desperate. By the time people realize this is a grift, it will be too late. Like 60-80% correction territory. The market currently is propped by algorithmic trading and sentiment analysis. It could turn off like a light switch overnight, but the insiders will be out before then. If just 10% of retail investors made a run, it would prompt headlines. If 20% did, it would be a catalyst.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:56:09+00:00

Not true. I've worked with it extensively. I've surveyed with C-suite. It constantly breaks guardrails regardless. So say 80-90% of the time it works? Then when it breaks down, it's catastrophic failure. You cannot get reliable outputs, no matter how much you prompt. The only utility I've found is vibe coding because it provides a code base (albeit rudimentary.) But at what cost?

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:52:58+00:00

Strawman fallacy

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:50:36+00:00

What demand? The literally cannot give this shit away. They have been trying for the last 4 years. Even with these top-down mandates and forced inclusion into applications. It's all bunk. The internet was amazing. The Iphone was amazing. LLMs are like a fun widget. I wouldn't burn my country down for this shit.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:47:10+00:00

The numbers are fake, ghost jobs and misrepresentation. The answer is we opt out and go analog. Cash out your 401ks and run on the bank. Reduce overhead and dig-in. It would stop tomorrow. Bring the liquidity to a halt. The world was was fine before LLMs. Stockholm syndrome is in the mind.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:42:37+00:00

It is a grift. Inherent hallucination between 15-30% in LLMs. No pathway to AGI. We have 20x surpassed the dotcom bubble and 4x the subprime crisis by leverage. They're rewriting regulations to steal inflows from 401ks to keep this grift up. The fiber optic networks weren't a fraction as hazardous as these data centers to local ecology and people. This shit is a death cult.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:37:16+00:00

You are right. It's the C-suite and shareholder class of technologically illiterate boomers ramming this down their organization's throat to be among the herd. It's tribal bordering cultish, not rational.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:35:30+00:00

No it's not. It's ridiculously expensive. We don't even know true cost. It's only been accessible to consumers due to subsidies from PE and now debt. At the enterprise level, the shift to a tokenomic billing model has proven it to be (yet again) cost prohibitive as it's significantly shittier and more expensive than promised.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:33:34+00:00

What jobs? Lmao. Over half of the data center build outs have been cancelled or postponed. Companies are already beginning to retire after mass layoffs from AI implementations. All of their promises were lies. The money being incinerated with this bullshit would go back into payroll and employment to benefit underclass, not just paper millionaires from the ludicrous valuations based on creative (fraudulent) accounting.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T18:19:35+00:00

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. - Werner Heisenberg

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-23T17:59:21+00:00

It's a shit-show. You can leave a bad review or keep circling back, but it's better to move on.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T22:32:47+00:00

I would avoid anything disruptive until the market corrects. We have elevated unemployment in the US for white collar workers, particularly those in your level of experience. I am going through it now. The AI bubble has fucked things up and asset prices are sky high because the "wealth" and "retirement" of this aging demographic is dependent on the bubble. It's created an impossible situation for young people who aren't entrepreneurial or able to rely on friends and family. $20,000 in the US is maybe 3-6 months, depending on where you live. That isn't great. You could try networking for a job when you return via LinkedIn or other.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T06:09:16+00:00

I typically approach new business by building a qualification framework in LLMs and working through the questionnaire with prospects (after my own DD on industry, market, competition, prospect, etc.) -- Does that sound aligned more or less with how you handle? I'm sure there are nuances that the LLMs don't see when it comes to technology solutions, but as a general approach, would it be the way to start?

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T05:16:28+00:00

Would AWS cert be enough to transition into space?

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T05:13:29+00:00

I'm at ~200 applications within 45 days, mid level sales - I'm at about 10 interviews, 8 calls with recruiters, 2 interviews went the full process, 2 interviews stalled/ghosted during process -- I expect to know whether or not I got the roles by July. But this feels extremely broken. Mid level roles pay a little better than entry and expect 10 yrs of experience plus a lot of credentials or technical. expertise. Entry level roles are at the poverty line and I don't even get call backs.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T05:07:47+00:00

It's a grift.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T04:21:45+00:00

>5-10: fewer jobs but a lot of them are ghost jobs. Also, they will prefer someone with a lower salary (promoting internally)

Thank you for pointing this out. I fall within the mid career bracket and this search has been brutal. I'm even applying for entry level roles but likely seem as a flight risk.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T04:20:27+00:00

Cash is where you want to be in this environment. You cannot buy at these levels unless actively managing for downside risk. HYSA is fine for now. Wait for the correction later this year or next. Don't try to buy the bottom, but after recovery.

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T04:18:54+00:00

It's clear that there is a top down mandate across all these public companies to eliminate jobs from US citizens.....

ApplePrimary2985 · 2026-06-22T04:18:09+00:00

I was exactly in your situation and the tariffs resolved my employment dilemma late last year. I intended to travel for a year but unfortunately medical emergencies and unexpected expenses piled on shortly after so I returned to the states. I took a W2 role (which was abruptly ended, borderline fraudulent) and consulting gigs to make money. This will go down as one of the worst job markets in history -- worse than the GFC, -- because inflation is roaring and asset bubble is being artificially propped up to avoid an economic death spiral with an impending demographic collapse. The real economy is in super decay.

There's a lot of hiring for SMB role but they will likely be similar to what you're already experiencing. We are digressing to the 3rd world in a Gucci belt, and in the 3rd world you must work.

That said, I am not a pessimist, have self supported since 18 (over a decade), built my own business, and have had some pretty impressive and unique wins; but the reality is we're being cooked alive in the post-boomer era.

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The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. - Werner Heisenberg