Title: I&#x27;ve been out of work for a very long time and I&#x27;m not sure what to do anymore. It seems that I&#x27;m effecitvely unemployable.<p>For the longest time, I was trying to get another remote developer job. Nothing crazy wasn&#x27;t really targeting tech companies or anything, just remote work that would pay me well enough to keep going. It took me too long to realize that this was going to be impossible and why. I managed to get interviews throughout this time, but it always ended with them selecting another candidate. Of course now, I’m more open to in-site roles, but I’m in no position to move, especially not to some high CoL area.<p>Now I&#x27;m fucked. I&#x27;m currently living off a friend, and this isn&#x27;t going to last forever. I&#x27;ve been applying to anything that looks like I could remotely be considered qualified for. Retail and restaurant companies won&#x27;t ever respond to my applications, despite constantly spamming the same jobs month after month.<p>If the job market is ostensibly so great, why can&#x27;t I manage to find <i>anything</i>? I swear it was easier to find a job when I didn&#x27;t have any work experience at all than it is now. It’s not just me. I had another friend, not a tech worker, who was out of work for a long time. Most of the interviews they got turned out to be MLMs and other sales related Ponzi schemes. They finally found a job, but it’s not paying nearly enough for them to get back on their feet.<p>My network has also utterly failed me. I’ve had people left and right offer their help in getting me a job, everything has fallen flat.
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