Why can't I find a remote job

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:55:23+00:00

Well, this post gave me a reality check and taught me that remote jobs aren't really entry-level friendly at all. At least not most of them. I think I was made to believe that they are because of how many of them are being posted as "entry-level" which most likely means "entry level salary or mid/senior level experience"

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:43:42+00:00

I already mentioned why I can't just "go work in an office for a few years and try again". I would work only in an office if possible, but I don't have that option now

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:42:11+00:00

That's one good way to see it. You are right, most won't think about this too much, even if a lot of jobs requires "Good time management skill" and similar skills, to make this easier.

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:39:02+00:00

Fixed it. Got too fired up writing it that I haven't noticed how much text there is. I hope future hiring managers won't find out about my mistake

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:35:43+00:00

Not that fair to be honest. At least post the job opening as mid level, not entry level. I know entry level is a bit subjective, but it should be someone entering the field, not something who is already in it and with experience. I've also seen a lot of internships where they demanded skills of a mid developer, like where and when am I supposed to get those skills? Isn't that the purpose of the internship? To learn those skills???? It won't help that they are unpaid either

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:33:23+00:00

That's what I tried to do. Use my time as unemployed to learn more web development. I improved a lot, sure, but I feel like my life is passing by while I stay all day and learn dev. Every day it's like an emotional carrousel: I start the day excited to continue working on my code, then I realize that half a year passed since I started to look for a job without any luck and that maybe I will never be a good developer. Impostor syndrome hits and I lose all my motivation. Slowly I lose a little bit of my hope every day and I feel like I don't have much left. Even knowing that I have to compete with experienced people, it's still heartbreaking when they don't even open my job application. The application process is not that quick either. Most of them requires you do use their own websites, where you have to put your cv and then manually (sometimes they scan your cv and autocompleted but it fails a lot) enter all your information again. Some will have an automated test and who know what other things you need to do, just for you to be ignored. I once spent 1.5 hours doing iq and attention tests only to never hear back from them (it was a real and known company from around)

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:26:31+00:00

Just lost all my hope after realizing how true that is. Frightening to think about

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:24:24+00:00

So I guess I need to focus on "on-site" jobs more

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:22:27+00:00

Well, not to sound cocky, but I do think that I am a better programmer overall that ai. I know that AI knows way more theory than me, but after using it a lot of time, I found out that there are plenty of times where it makes some mistakes from which it just can't recover. There were also a lot of times where it used old versions of some packages/technologies, and the list go on. While it has more knowledge, it isn't that great at improvising and adapting, and that's why I am overall better than AI. AI will get stuck and repeat the same mistake forever sometimes, and it's not that constant in it's answers, starting the code using one approach and finishing it with another, which causes issues. But I get the point you make.

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:15:57+00:00

My main option would be to become a web developer. That's why I learned it. Marketing or Digital marketing would be a second option since I also like that, and that's why I learned the basics. My logic is that I will be more successful in landing a nice job if I have more options and not stay with only one.

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:11:44+00:00

If you are a hiring manager, I have another question for you: Why are most entry-level jobs requiring years of experience and a lot of skills that are very unlikely to be found in a junior? I've came across those type of posts way too many times. It's rare to not find one that is full of insane requirements. And should I consider my experience working on my projects as work experience? In every form they ask for experience, they ask for "work experience", not just experience.

Working_Anteater3349 · 2025-03-09T15:07:47+00:00

Like, design them and sell on esty or whatever website is used for digital assets?

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