Stop worrying about a job and start worrying about skills.
The great thing about software is that you don’t need permission (a job) to make impact and to build skills.
Build something or contribute to open source.
If I were staring my career over and had trouble getting a software job I would get any job I could to sustain life -ex busing tables. Then I would spend all of my nights and weekends working on open source or building things publicly.
If you spend the next year doing open source contributions for 30+ hours a week I can pretty much guarantee that you will have a job.
The great thing about software is that you don’t need permission (a job) to make impact and to build skills.
Build something or contribute to open source.
If I were staring my career over and had trouble getting a software job I would get any job I could to sustain life -ex busing tables. Then I would spend all of my nights and weekends working on open source or building things publicly.
If you spend the next year doing open source contributions for 30+ hours a week I can pretty much guarantee that you will have a job.
It will be hard sure. But this is the way.
Develop skills and the jobs will come.