This Job Market is Tough!¶
I entered the Job Market right smack-dab in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. It was TOUGH! It was easier to head down to Occupy Wall Street and play chess with fellow protestors than it was to land an interview. Now the students I mentor are dealing with their own version of a terrible job market. In many ways, its worse. I can't imagine what it has been like spending your formative years interacting with your peers via Zoom during COVID. Then you graduate only to encounter one of the toughest markets for entry-level software engineering roles right when AI has begun displacing certain roles