Readit NewsThen, enjoy maintaining React apps once React inevitably bites the dust and ends up in the JS framework graveyard.
Edit: it depends on what you mean by "bites the dust". If you mean "isn't cool anymore" then I'd say that's kind of irrelevant. If you mean "isn't supported anymore", I don't see that happening any time within the next decade at least. Rails isn't cool anymore but it's still supported and lots of people are still (more or less) happily using it at their day jobs. React is so widely used it'll be kept on life support long after it has been supplanted by something better, if and when that happens.
Google does a great job of shepherding you towards information and at the very least gives you additional context that you can use to corroborate or tune your search.
I've been back in the job market since the beginning of the year. I've probably sent out well over a hundred resumes (definitely over this number since I was keeping track until recently). I had a brief respite when I picked up a temp contract but that only lasted about a month.
I mostly get just rejections. I have over 15 years of experience. I literally know how to build out every part of a normal web/api stack.
I even have an active ongoing project I've run for 13 years and have scaled to support a couple million requests a day.
Nothing seems to matter.
I have maybe managed to get one actual call a week for the last year where I actually speak to someone from the company. And even then, it's been one "thanks for playing" response email after another.
I honestly don't know what to do. I've never had a problem at least getting interviews to the point where I'm at least in the consideration process.
I need help.
I revised my resume a few times and that hasn't helped. I've gotten more involved with LinkedIn and I get more noise but still low results.
I'm basically getting very desperate.
I know you can remap your keys but there's inertia to just go with what you're given.
I've also noticed myself switching between Mac, Windows, and Linux, that Cmd-C on my Mac is way less stressful on my hand than Ctrl-C on the other 2 machines. I should probably figure out how to remap those.
PS: If you're curious how emacs was forced, it was because the lead built the project's IDE/build/debugging system into emacs
What is more relevant to the average reader is that we have a large department in this space, and almost all (not all) the work is pointless because the numbers just don't matter at this scale. We have a core business that generates amounts of money large enough to fund departments that do nothing other than reaffirm that we care about whatever that department is supposed to do. That's totally fine (though I doubt it's a deliberate strategy) unless you waste time thinking they want to make people read the dashboards. It turns out that it's totally irrelevant to anything - they just want to have the team there to say they care about data, and you'll go insane if you try to do your job better.
(Excellent critique though.)
This is always a strange claim for me, because it does not even remotely match my experience. And now we have the rise of Chat-AIs, and people who claim it's so much better than google, which also does not even remotely match my experience. And now I ask myself: am I just too stupid to see it? Or are the people too stupid to not see it? Do I search just too different things from what others search that I can't see it?
And then I also remember the claim that the youth is insanely uneducated about technology and the modern world, even worse than old people, and I wonder whether this is the reason for those claims. Do those claims all come from young people, who live in a very different world and are just very clueless about those things?
So at the end, does Google end, because it's not cool with the youth anymore? Not hipster enough and getting lost in the difference between the culture of the generations?