The Big Beautiful Depression is just on the horizon! Courtesy of the Epstein Class!

Job hunting is like rolling a D20 till you land the same number 10 times in a row, and then you roll for emotional damage because you needed a 21 for a career in the field you trained for.

I used to get down on myself for getting into the trades and not going back to school for computer science.

My goodness, how your opionions can change.

We should learn from cops

Yeah everything's fucked. I'm currently working retail but I have a computer science bachelor's. I've been considering doing a pivot to teaching but everything's so terrible now that idk if it'd really even be any better.

Lemme give you a personal example of how fucked everything is:

I was fired from my cyber security job back in March 2025. The only interview I got with a real human was with this one IT repair company that repairs school laptops. The interview went pretty well. Y'know, aside from the interviewer looking at my resume before asking me why I was applying for the job as I was overqualified. He then followed up with, "Is the job market really that bad now?"

I did my best to answer in a way that made me seem enthusiastic for the job, but deep down I knew he was right, and that I was overqualified for the job. Needless to say, they didn't move forward with me.

That was July 2025, and I haven't found a damn job since.

If we don't get tribunals for every single fucker who fucked the economy sideways, there is no hope or future for this country.

everything not related to some grift (ai or ai adjacent, ice etc) or dod/dow or exploiting healthcare seems to be in a slump right now in America

i wonder why, is it the stupid high fuel input costs or the fact non billionaires are so broke most spending is only immediately essential, or that no one wants to buy American goods post tariff and cutting all quality assurance post dodge fucker

I learned a trade before I realized college was a better fit for me and I do think there's a bit a "grass is always greener" phenomenon when it comes to people thinking about the trades.

There are plenty of hardworking, skilled welders who have pretty unpleasant, low-paying jobs and originally intended to get a lucrative oil rig job but couldn't seem to get an offer. Ironically the ones I knew talked about how they were learning python on the side.

The trades have their own problems.

I feel like this is the biggest thing everyone overlooks. Doctors, lawyers, and engineers used to be the biggest paying jobs for boomers and going into genX, so later genX and millennial that followed the blueprint of "if you want to make a lot of money, go I to these fields" found out the hard was how the prisoner's dilemma is more than game theory. Now we have millenial doctors, lawyers, and engineers getting jobs that pay 60k with over 100k of student loans that they were told would be easy to pay back with their high paying jobs.

The trades have a good chance of doing the same thing. Right now you can make bank in the trades with no college debt. Just wait until we feed this to an entire generation and we have an excess of them and they are the ones making 60k (but at least no student loans? Normally...) and then they will tell their kids some variation of what they were told and repeat the same cycle.

Apparently it's working right now tho.

Thanks!