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Every voice on record.
“My work is exceptional, and I’m a bargain, but no person is…”“A rejection email excites me now. The bar is THAT low.”“282 applications since the second of June. 103 rejections.…”“Can't get any traction on applications. I know if I could…”“After 6 months of complete chaos and a different strategy…”“I find myself thinking it would have potentially been easier…”“I never thought I'd end up not being able to apply my skills…”“Disheartened by nearly zero responses to hundreds of…”“Ageism is real and present in every layoff scenario.”“We're just a bunch of biocrust on a spacerock and it doesn't…”“We’ve lost our humanity in the hiring process.”“After the first year, I doubted I would get another role.…”“I wish I were twenty years older and all too happy to retire…”“I know I'm overqualified for a lot of roles but still not…”“I adapted, delivered, and in the end, my role was eliminated…”“I was let go, but still part of the decision-making team to…”“I’ve created things that have helped millions of people and…”“I would never have thought that, with all the great brands…”“Hiring managers, after all these years, still think that UX…”“I didn't get into shareholder experience design, I got into…”“‘I’ll know it when I see it’ isn’t a strategy: it’s lazy…”“Two years ago I wouldn’t have considered the job I’m…”
“I’ve been lying to my parents and some of my family about…”“Jobs disappear after multiple interviews. They just decide…”“I had a 15-month runway. I now have one month left before I…”“After 3 years of searching, my life is destroyed in every…”“I'm a Super IC who now spends most of my day herding agents…”“In the winter I had one of the best reviews of my career, I…”“About a third of the company was laid off in the prior year…”“You could do everything right and still come up short.”“I alternate between optimism that I will get something…”“It can be difficult not to interpret the situation as a…”“My skills are sharper than they have ever been, but no one…”“Why would anyone want to hire someone their CEO claimed was…”“When recruiters assumed I was still employed, I seemed to be…”
“I’m literally only rebuilding my savings because I don’t…”“Accepted a role only to be ghosted after two months.”“If none of them take off as a business, going to pivot to…”“Now I have no idea what I’m qualified for that isn’t tech.”“It's a battle of who can out AI the best, where your actual…”“IR35 destroyed the contracting market. My company went into…”“I was lucky that my layoff didn't last that long. Otherwise…”“I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place: too rusty to go…”“I'm applying to jobs several levels below where I'm at in my…”“The whole “it was a close call” is extremely annoying. If it…”“I applied to a position that wanted 15 years of React…”“They told me I interviewed well and went with someone more…”
“They reach out to me saying I have a good profile and want…”“The only thing keeping me sane is that so many other…”“I have a bachelor’s degree in marketing that I can’t even…”“My career was destroyed by the “3 A’s”: AI, ATS bots…”“I track analytics on my portfolio site, and during that…”“No one responds to a networking email, not even to reject…”“Each passing day I feel less hopeful and more stuck. I find…”“I stopped telling people at parties what I do. It is easier…”
“Have switched careers to just be able to live as the salary…”“Ghosting, demanding free work product after one phone…”“I have over 15 years of experience, high potential…”“I trained and knowledge shared myself out of work.”“I’ve been through a lot of reorganizations, mergers, and…”
“I get it that it is just “business”. But continuing with…”“I find myself too morally sound to continue in tech.”“My old team still messages me for advice and I answer every…”
“The job I do is now almost dead in Europe.”“The veil of Silicon Valley has been pierced.”“Laid off during maternity leave.”
“There is no safety net after my last bit of money from sold…”“My email is crickets. I no longer have a career.”
“It’s near impossible to disassociate self value with the…”“If I had known that this market would suddenly turn on…”
“I was scapegoated due to poor planning, fired in probation…”