The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I don't have much advice to offer, I'm no FAANG engineer or VC-backed startup founder.
But the fact that an ex-FAANG founder, is having difficulty finding any job at all, that too ones low level enough to make you do a leetcode interview, is dizzying to say the least. The tech job market seems to be beyond fucked right now.
I'm no corporate shill, but as someone at 1 YOE at a somewhat well known company right now, I would probably kiss the floor of my workplace if I could. If I ever get laid off, I will probably never make it back into the field ever again at this rate. Things seem to be really really fucked up.
Maybe... look outside the US?
The market is much worse, and pays much worse in just about everywhere else in the world, but in many places employers will get you a personal sex slave and a fulltime personal butler for someone with your profile.
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