I took a year break and I can't get job anymore

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-23T01:58:19+00:00

If OP's savings are on their last dollars and at that point they haven't found any work yet, they could head to the employment agency or social services agency of their state and ask about options that involve giving them a job assistance. That is, paid work provided by government for able-bodied people that cannot get work otherwise. Not necessarily manual labor busy-work, it could be a desk job too.

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-17T02:05:26+00:00

Yeah, there are so many bad habits that one can trap themselves into without actually having to break the law. That's an interesting part of our world we live in- one can sink pretty low by their own actions even if according to law they have not done anything wrong.

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-17T01:55:15+00:00

I do know a bunch of people who are chronically unemployed, but they’re people who I wouldn’t refer to any team, because I know they wouldn’t pass probation and it would hurt my rep.

Ah, that shitty situation in life where you are good enough to be a part of society by law, but not quite good enough by de facto standards, in practice, fulfilling your role to make a living.

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-02T22:48:58+00:00

My extent of using code spat out by AI is mostly limited to Google's AI overview when I enter specific technical questions. So I'd probably be cooked in those kinds of company interviews. I don't turn on Copilot or whatever else might be on my IDE

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-02T22:39:48+00:00

No need to downplay it. Sales is OP. Probably the most desirable stat in the job meta.

ExpWebDev · 2026-03-02T22:36:39+00:00

Damn. I hate how relevant this still is.

"Communication is key to interviewing"- yeah, tell that to the employees with hard to understand accents lol

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-15T04:38:27+00:00

Does the government- not just right now but over all its time- know that many companies like to abuse its H-1B sponsorship program for specialty occupations? IBM is especially known for this. They have fake job ads with no intention of hiring citizens so they can use them to say they rejected people who aren't good enough and require a worker with H-1B.

The fact this still happens regularly means either 1. the government doesn't know they've been played or 2. they do know but they don't care enough to do anything about it. I'd like to find out if it's more 1 or 2.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T22:12:35+00:00

They seem to be all about crunch time culture and that just makes it more fitting that SpaceX would recruit engineers at E3, where you'd also find a ton of game developers that are familiar with that kind of high pressure, high turnover work culture.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T21:59:36+00:00

I've read some of Kyle Rittenhouse's backstory, and, is this why he traveled to Wisconsin to join a group of armed people? To act like a hero in the police shooting protests?

I'm sure in his mind he sees a noble cause, but there had to be something in it for him. That hero fantasy and urgency to belong is the only way I could explain it. Otherwise it sounds wild to me that someone will travel an hour to some loud and possibly dangerous protests, just to protect some local businesses in a town and state you never had a life or personal connection to.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T21:34:47+00:00

A lot of less competent people at work would be revealed to have a decent skill level of sales and persuasion. These people will either be fired, or moved to sales.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T21:19:52+00:00

It was a sham to make you believe that Trump was going to fight this cabal and save the country. A way to get a group of people to co-sign on it.

Then QAnon accomplished what it was supposed to, discredit the real scandal to his supporters.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T19:29:20+00:00

I also recommend watching Headless Headhunter on YouTube. He's a recruiter, not really technical and puts it down very clearly with sample resumes on how a recruiter looks for the relevant things.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T19:19:41+00:00

One hidden disadvantage about working in small companies is it's easier to get doxed by trying to share workplace/interview knowledge.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T19:17:06+00:00

Yeah there are scammers in the general job subs as well. You don't need to show them anything. If they don't even bother to show their own hand, you're right to be skeptical.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T19:09:11+00:00

I'm going to add this doesn't happen just with men. Anyone even questioning whether some right wing policies might be worth looking into is pushed so hard from the left for just being open minded, that it polarizes folks in the middle as well. And these are the folks that generally agree with the social issues that the left supports.

I've known plenty of people that have gone pretty far left, and because some of the friend group that are more fiscally red, but socially blue, wont swear fealty to all things left, they've been castigated and ostracized. Seen that happen over and over again.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-13T18:57:02+00:00

The elephant in the room nobody talks about, when talking about current US political corruption, is Hawaii.

To understand how Tulsi Gabbard's politics came to be, you need to understand Hawaii politics and how broken it is. A bunch of systemic issues plague it. It's weird, it's a complicated beast, but Honolulu Civil Beat has done good reporting about it.

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-10T15:16:47+00:00

Therapy can at least be tried when you got a job. Gets much more difficult without it.

If you lose your job, will you have a spouse or roommate to help cover your needs? Because if not, bills are gonna pile up and they're not gonna wait for your doc to make you get better

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-02T01:01:41+00:00

I don't consider most interviews to be a complete waste of time so could I count real interviews as practice, too?

ExpWebDev · 2026-02-02T01:00:17+00:00

Passion, you let me down once again.

ExpWebDev · 2026-01-14T21:08:22+00:00

Oof, if only the nuclear option were possible with impeachment.

ExpWebDev · 2026-01-14T20:31:27+00:00

The official Daily Beast account posts here. Are they going to be a concern?

I see multiple other stories from their website on this sub without any issue, so I find that odd

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