dirtybirdnj

I appreciate the who's hiring / who wants to be hired posts. I am curious if we can flip this pattern a little and have some discussions on how people found jobs they are in, or jobs that were meaningful and impactful in their careers.

Locating: How did you find the job? Did it find you?

Interviewing: Was there anything you did that made a difference? Different strategies that might not be intuitive?

Surviving: Every job has its flaws, what have you done to maintain your ability to earn an income despite issues that had made previous jobs difficult / unpleasant / untenable.

Currently unemployed, quit my job working for one of the states in the US earlier this year because they were not treating software development as a first class citizen. It's hard to get work done when you can't get any testing, can't get any infra or PM support, have to do everything yourself in a vaccum. Have to run apps on a server in the closet.

First time in my life I "chose myself" and quit a job instead of staying in something that was very negatively affecting my mental health. It's been hard to find a way to get back into employment without addressing fears of hostile, toxic work environments.

Fingers crossed for some ideas or directions that can give me some new things to try instead of just doing the same shit that fails over and over again.

Hello,

I am currently trapped in a job I don't want. I can't get out because it's really hard for me to either find work locally, or find a job that I can even tolerate.

Question: How do you escape a job when you have no energy to keep going? When you are mentally breaking down but still have to keep going because society doesn't care about damaged people?

I'm also dealing with a midlife crisis so that's certainly a variable.

My bigger issue is this: It takes ALL of my executive function to force myself to do a job I hate all day long. I have nothing left in the tank at the end of the day. My entire life is collapsing and I am having a bit of a breakdown / panic attack because it took me YEARS to find this job during one of the most stressful periods of my life. The idea of job hunting again is just... no. I honestly think I'd rather die... its upsetting to see myself type this but I do not know how else to get out of this fifty foot hole that is (the wreckage of) my career.

I took the job to keep my marriage going. Now I lost my wife, the house is gone... I am living alone in an apartment by myself... isolated all the time... doing a job I hate.

The job COULD be good but it was terribly misrepresented in the JD and the way the org behaves towards software development is not professional to put it mildly. I work in a very corporate environment that sees software dev as an annoying fly in the room vs another person at the table.