I graduated with a bachelors in computer science around 4 years ago. Long story short, I was depressed, dysphoric, and suicidal throughout my college years and by the time I finished I didn’t want to do anything. I’ve been unemployed for the last 4 years but I’ve also transitioned, started taking better care of myself, and overall I feel much better.

Anyways, I need to get a job now. What kind of lies can I get away with on my resume to cover up the long period of unemployment? Should I pretend I started some sort of company and it failed? Pretend like I went on some backpacking journey in a foreign country? Do companies even check all this stuff?

I did do an internship at a big tech company several years ago, and I’m working on personal software projects so I can put that on my resume. Also, I’m in Amerikkka.

Sorry if this question has been asked here before obama-sad

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Say you were self employed and practicing your skills and post a bunch of cool looking projects that you found on YouTube, as well as your own projects, on GitHub as proof and as a portfolio.

    Also you did a four year degree four years ago. So you therefore have eight years of programming experience now. Including your internship.