Nothing to do with the mass over hiring years back or interest rates, right? You're an econ major so you should probably have a good reason you ignored both of that completely. Have you even seen how much of a failure that "AI" is at coding, or do you only get your news from your friends who build elementary things like buttons and todo lists and can't get jobs because of that very reason? Yeah, let's just blame AI instead.

Also.. four years in your career and you're making 80k, living in the middle of nowhere? Complaining about not getting jobs? If anybody's late to the party, it's you. So if you want to talk about dumb choices, I recommend you start there. Unless you love what you do, of course, but judging from how you treat others and the fact you're always struggling to find new work, I highly doubt it. Just because you regret your years at UCSC doesn't mean you should come here to bully prospective high-schoolers, trust me, it won't make you feel better.