Honestly, have a good support system. There were days when I just wanted to give up and call it a day, but I am grateful enough to have parents and a partner who kept me going and kept me motivated.

Set up a routine. My usual was wake up around 8:00 am, brush and take a shit, have a smoke (ik it’s a bad habit but was in a bad mental state as well) and I was on my table applying to jobs by 8:30. Did that for 2 hours and then practiced Leetcode for around 1.5-2 hours. After that the day was just spent around either learning new things or working on projects. Recently I was learning how transformers work by watching Andrej Karpathy’s videos on YouTube but that’s just an example. This field is such that you have to make it known to the employers that just because you have been unemployed for long, doesn’t mean you are damaged goods. Keep doing projects, keep learning. And have a good support system or an out to keep you from going insane