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Cake day: March 16th, 2025
  • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldtoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world•U.S. Worker Thriving Declines as Job Market Pessimism GrowsEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    1 degree with 1 decade of experience, and I’ve been unemployed for a year to this very day. Fuck Indeed, fuck Dice, fuck Monster, fuck all these shitty job websites that can’t bother to filter these scam jobs and instead do bullshit AI job searching, coaching, resume assistance, etc., all paid of course.

    Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I even applied to an IT job I was overqualified for, and they were surprised I was even applying for the job in the first place. The interviewer even asked me “Is the job market really that bad right now?” Hooo boy, I wish it was as bad as half a year ago. Now, it’s impossible.

  • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldtoFlippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•end capitalismEnglish
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    2 days ago

    When I was a kid, they drilled into me that being academically successful will get you into the top schools, and get you the best jobs.

    Cut to me now in my 30s, been job hunting for the past year after being laid off from my previous job for not meeting their standards three months after one of my parents died, and having the gall to try to set boundaries against doing installs back to back.

    Grades don’t mean shit if you don’t have the following:

    Interview skills (aka the ability to BS your way through an interview), Experience (sad that those who start working in high school are ahead of the game, when really kids shouldn’t have to be put in situations to start work that early), Connections (it’s not what you know, it’s who you know)

    Barely had any of these when I graduated from college and spent close to 6 months trying to find a job from there.

  • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•google is a prison and the enemy of FOSS, we really need an alternativeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Seconded. Been rocking GrapheneOS since the Pixel 4 XL (my goat minus the bloated battery issue), the Pixel 6 Pro (which sucked as a phone since it uses Google’s shit-tier Tensor modem), then Pixel 8 Pro (which seems to have a better Tensor chip, though still not great in some areas for cell reception).

    All the banking apps I use work flawlessly on Graphene. Of course, payment/wallet apps won’t work, and I’ve only had two experiences where that bit me in the ass (attending concerts and needing to open a ticket in a wallet app I couldn’t even use).

    The added security features are top notch. Being able to set a duress password definitely helps in case I’m ever in a situation where I’m forced by a pig to unlock my phone, and setting multiple profiles on my phone helps so much with compartmentalization.

    Would I prefer if Graphene were on a different phone? Fuck yes, which is why as soon as the Motorola partnership produces a phone (with Qualcomm Snapdragon hopefully), I’m jumping the Pixel ship and never looking back. Hoping that’s just the beginning for Graphene being ported to other phones, though I feel it’s gonna be like pulling teeth with these other phone manufacturers (like FairPhone).