>>18793939>If you don't mind me asking anon, how come you're unemployed? My own personal issues. I haven't really been applying much at all. Not being able to drive, already being in student debt kinda made me thought it might not be worth buying a car with money I don't have. I need to suck it up and just apply like crazy to literally anything at this point. Laziness.
>I hear guys are either competing with loads of outsourcing and AI killing jobs Outsourcing is a big killer in the US and Canada. I've spoken to people recently out. I know a software engineer who's spent 10 years in the indies and tried to make it big after graduating from the dojo but the tryout sessions are pretty harsh in what they ask. It's commonly "you have a few hours to build an entire CI/CD pipeline with extras".
In my country, the standards have always been middling and got way higher, but they've also had an influx of outsourcing along with underpay/overwork, so even if you get in, its more like you're in on the job at minimum wage, or just above.
STEM (which is what I majored) is paid terribly where I live. The best you get is electronic engineering for subfields which pay relatively well. None of the rest pay well, at all.
Junior jobs or jobs that juniors/entry level candidates would take just have immense competition. Our minimum wage kinda means that companies don't want to hire too many new workers.
