he keeps tweaking his resume, cutting it from 10 pages to two, then beefing it up to 24.
I’m no expert, but a 24 page resume?! I think I found your problem bud.
I left tech a couple years ago. Left as in I couldn’t find work, so I drifted through a few dead end jobs before my next career landed in my lap. And you know what? I’m happier doing this than I ever was working at a computer all day.
What’s your new career?
I work in nuclear power now. Valve work.
Steam deck getting new specs? /S
Gabe doesn’t want to brag about it, but the lads and ladettes actually compressed a Tesla’s battery to the size of a Game Gear, with no loss to mAH and its being included in the new Steam Deck. It also comes with a small fusion reactor to charge it in about 15 minutes. Customers have to provide cooling and a spent fuel pool, though.
I’m here for it. I’ve got my steel barrels, concrete and a backhoe in the backyard ready XD
Lol bro come on you can’t just say that and then not tell us what the new career is.
My bad, I work in nuclear power now.
The amount of tech recruiters I have calling and emailing me daily would indicate otherwise.
They’re desperate for people that will work for less than a living wage for the area.
Idk about that. The jobs I get hit up for are all 225k-300k across various states.
It might mot be hard, but it’s still a nightmare
They want the best and want to pay McDonald’s wages for it. Or the workplace is so toxic nobody lasts a week there
The “tech” label confuses me as a non-american. This means just IT programming/computer stuff, right? Because it’s funny to me that stuff like mechanical engineering isn’t considered part of “tech”.
Might be that the “tech” market is now saturated. Computer science was THE trend topic to doin STEM from my subjective view, so maybe that crashed into the bursting tech bubble that we are experiencing now with all the enshittification and layoffs and stuff.
“Tech” in the tech sector is really just short for high technology, which itself mostly just means information technology.
Engineers work on all kinds of technologies, not just information technology.
There’s lots of things that are ‘high tech’ that aren’t IT, though. Microsystems, nanotech, nanophotonics, high-precision machining, etc.
It’s actually very confusing. I think the only good definition is that it’s a cultural designation for any company that was focused on digital technology at its inception, which comes with a certain cultural package, and even that has some problems. Netflix is a tech company, not a movie studio, but HBO is not a tech company, even though it also has a streaming platform, and Netflix produces a lot of its own stuff, which is even more confusing because Netflix started as a company that would mail you DVDs. Amazon is a tech company, but WalMart is not, even though Amazon has many physical stores and WalMart does more and more of its business online.
Mechanical engineering can be a part of tech, but again I think it’s a cultural designation before anything else at this point. Plenty of mechanical engineers work at Apple, which is definitely a tech company, but if you’re a mechanical engineer working on an oil rig, that’s not tech.
Add to the confusion that Twitter is a tech company. At this point, what technology is Twitter really developing? Isn’t technology about innovation? No doubt that a platform of that size has substantial daily engineering problems to overcome, but like… is that really what we mean when we say technology? Plenty of non-tech companies also deal with the same thing.
I wrote a whole thing fleshing out my theory, if you’re curious.
edit: just under this post in my feed is one about how netflix is going to open physical stores.
In Germany we are still looking for people. Only catch is that you need to move to Germany and learn German. At least a little bit
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Companies get desperate. We now also hire non german speakers.
Im not allowed to say the words I know.
Oh no :c
I get random messages on LinkedIn from people that want to interview me weekly, and my team has also seen some voluntary turnover. I’m not sure that I believe the article.
In the last 3 months, I’ve managed to get 2 interviews and the last one ghosted me. It’s still pretty bad for some of us.
Send a request, got an online interview a week later, another one a week later and a contract after 2 days.
Good pay, lots of training opportunities, no controlling managers and flexible work times.Of course, not in the US, lol. Thats where you get scewed either way.
Personally I found factory work to be a good stop gap, doing the exact same motion over and over again until the machine breaks tickles my neurons the same way programming does
