The market is horrible at the moment. All the big tech corps are laying off thousands of people who have bigger potential at landing in a job as they have those big names in their CV.
I'm in similar shoes at the moment although I'm not only applying to fully remote jobs, but almost any job I see.
I'm very surprised about your experience. Unemployment hasn't hit that hard the IT sector,and finding good people ain't easy, but people willing to work on IT? There are plenty and doing very long hours...
If you have to ask, it's not going to work out for you. The market is saturated with unemployed tech workers. Unless you have exceptional skills at rock bottom prices, there will be nothing anyone will pay you to do. Harsh reality of the current economic situation.
Is the job market that bad for us techies; web designers, developers, Internet marketers, SEO and such? Which fields are suffering the most? Ones that don't require special skill sets?
Where I live and fortunately (mid Atlantic region) there are always many job postings for web design/development on craigslist. My viewpoint Im not seeing all the unemployed; even with friends.
The fact that there are way too many IT people from poor immigrant backgrounds (no opportunities for anything you mention) discredits your first point.
> it's GENERALLY because it is something that you very much care about and want to do.
Given that there is a higher demand for IT jobs than supply makes this impossible. You just have to be good at it.
Meh. IT unemployment has been about 2% for YEARS. I can get a good job on a team I'll enjoy working with in less than a week. If you're a top tier IT name then it might be worth jumping through hoops, but I will wind up at companies with the least hassle in the hiring department. 15 years in the industry has told me that there's no strong correlation between hiring practices and team quality.
Just going by what's available. There are only so many companies doing OS work and they typically are the FAANG-size places that can afford such an endeavor. And they aren't hiring.
For career driven people, it's not enough that just some company will hire them for something. And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.
However, in IT we have flexibility:
* try freelancing
* create an OSS portfolio
* try remote companies
* try jobs for which you're overqualified
if it really is that bad.
And if it is that bad for IT folks, I pity most non-IT people, to be honest.
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