What do you use for job hunt? Glassdoor, Indeed?
I was laid off in 2024, sold my house for $165k profit and moved across the country to move in with my elderly parents to take care of them for their final days (so long as I'm breathing they'll never set foot in a nursing home to be slowly tortured to death by lazy niggers). My dad's got Alzheimer's (and it's getting bad) and my mother's wheelchair bound and slowly losing muscle strength enough to even get herself in and out of her Hoverround just to use the bathroom
Haven't really looked for work though. When I got settled in here, in early 2025 I think, I briefly tried engaging with my recruiter from back in 2019-2020 (who successfully landed me two jobs in a row, even during COVID), but they only generated two leads and landed me one interview (which petered out because I wasn't a good fit culturally ... I was the only white guy on the call if that tells you anything) so I just let it go and focused back on mom & dad. They've lived here 20+ years. There's a lot of half-finished projects they never got around to finishing, so I'm doing the best I can to knock them out and make their home nicer before the end. My dad doesn't understand anymore why the front porch and driveway/garage lights turn themselves on at dusk and off at sunrise every day (Zwave switches and HomeAssistant kick ass btw, highly recommended), and he's finally stopped asking, but I noticed a few weeks ago he's finally stopped opening the front door every ten minutes after dark to make sure the lights are on.
But generally I've had far better luck throughout my career using tech recruiters/placement companies than I have fucking around on the "job seeker" websites. They're rubbish, and they're just after commissions and I think they're a bit like the dating sites -- they want you to keep coming back (to drive up activity indicators on their site) and that means making the grind harder and setting you up for failure by matching you with dogshit "opportunities." Obviously the recruiters are just after a commission too, but at least they're up front about it and everybody (you, the recruiter and the company interviewing you) all know from the start why your job offer starts a few thousand shy of the industry average the first year and there's no bullshit around it. Yes, you're ultimately paying that commission via reduced salary,
but the recruiter fucking earned it because
he got you the fucking job and your first annual review raise should more than cover it anyway.