Literally had one such old person checking out my shared house the other day and telling my younger housemate, who’s struggling to find proper work, to “try harder”. Guess who didn’t get to stay in the house.
Seems to be a global problem, nobody wants to hire young people.
Old people: best I can do is hating immigrants
Also old people: but I’ll need an exemption for the really cheap immigrants I have working at my company.
Old people: best I can do is preserve the character of the neighbourhood.
I don’t see it mentioned much or in the article but the data is actually probably even worse than it looks.
It counts a lot people working gig jobs as being employed or even boasted as self employed sometimes. The quality of those jobs is substantially lower than more traditional jobs.
I got a Computer Science degree eight years ago, and couldn’t find any entry level position in the field - everybody wants five years experience in software that only came out two years ago. Two years later I begrudgingly took a menial data entry job that has been slowly draining me for the last six years, menial work that’s tedious and honestly just exhausting. They keep assigning me more with tighter deadlines, and I’m pretty certain they’re looking for an excuse to fire me. I’ve been on LinkedIn firing off as many resumes as I can hoping to get out, but I fear than a eight year old degree with no relevant experience in the field maybe just looks like a red flag to employers now.
you need to start focusing on Code Review and QA. That is where the need is heading purely because most companies decided to leverage LLM’s and now they’re all finding that it’s “not working”.
I myself am a consultant/freelance developer and a year or so ago I decided to transition from dev work to code review for my clients. Most of my clients now have utilized AI for end to end builds and it simply didn’t work. Now they’re all collectively scrambling to fix what slop was produced. The issue is the vast majority simply don’t know how OR they axed a good chunk of their devs and are left with juniors/vibe coders who can’t fix it.
So now there’s a market for individuals that can code review and potentially fix/refactor/whatever the slop that was churned out. Since transitioning to being, essentially, a digital janitor I’ve had more work/clients than ever before.
My advice is to get back on Linkedin but instead of shooting our resume after resume start (and I know this sucks, trust me) interacting with posts on there. Call out the tech bros for their AI bullshit BUT state that fact that you’re in a position and qualified to fix the garbage. Companies, many start ups, will reach out to you without posting positions because their afraid to admit their fuck ups publicly.
You could try for software QA jobs. The older degree and non-related work experience might matter less, and there’s a good chance you can over time transition into a dev role.
I’m sorry, this shit really sucks. I’m in a similar position with the CS degree, but even going through unpaid work in internships and university research projects to fill my resume during college, I still haven’t gotten anything but silence, scams, and fake interviews in the 2.5 years after graduation. It honestly might be easier to try pivoting to a non-tech field at this point and get away from the dumpster fire that is this industry. Thinking about going into a trade like welding or HVAC, but who knows what’s a good decision anymore.
Hoping the best for you, gen 1 glitch person
Older people saying ‘try harder’ isn’t helping
Oh dip, rly?
These young people just need to use a firm hand shake and look them in the eye to score that sweet gig down at the mill.
Have they even considered printing out 5 resumes with their limited work history, putting on formal clothes and making eye contact? They’d have to pick between family-supporting wage offers there would be such demand.
Love to see a boomer try to get a job on Indeed when they don’t even know how to send an email.
