... and now I'm job-hunting in earnest and jfcsstrrssfgchujbgfryhgftyhgerswww. I hope this is the right place to vent about this sort of thing, but I'm feeling so incredibly stressed and frustrated because I really want to change careers (TEFL teaching is a dead end, and the conditions have got so much worse in recent years) and I know I could do a junior frontend job perfectly well — I've put so much with into getting good at it in my own time — but it's beginning to dawn on me that there's basically no way in to the industry unless you know someone who can help you get a foot in the door.
I don't know where I'm going with this tbh — I just needed to vent somewhere — but it would be nice to hear any advice anyone can offer, or even just the lamentations of anyone with similar experiences...
when so many jobs are bullshit jobs, bullshitting prowess is a highly valuable skill. best possible economic system btw
Death to America
It really is (a valuable skill). I moved from a high-bullshit job to a low-bullshit job and actually have had to explain to a manager: "look, like 99% of my job description over the past decade has been 'come up with pleasant BS to distract other teams'; you're totally wasting me by having me actually do work"