I think a person without a job can’t often afford to move to a different city. Moving within the same city is already expensive. Moving to a different city costs something like $10k, and then a lot of places won’t rent to you unless you can provide proof of employment/income.
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
So insane when i read these. I feel for y’all, that would really suck to apply that much. You could try moving to a smaller city?. Ive been hired at every job ive applied to, and I’m not even a programmer or crazy smart engineer type. And now I make almost as much as those folks. Its either dumb luck or I just give off good first impressions. If I had to apply now though, I bet I’d have a harder time because of tech bs and I’m old.
Ive only lived in cities ubder 200k people.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 days ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, it does suck. There needs to be more assistance for those people
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
it’s dumb luck, or you were born into money and have the social connections to get high end jobs.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Socially awkward, 0 friends from school , not born into money, (was never given an allowance or any if the sort, moved out at 17.)
A big part is that I’m good at making people like me (insecure), working hard, and willingness to learn. That sounds boomer, but goes a hell of a long way. And again, I think its because of smaller cities. I would never live in these million person cities myself, and I probably would have no chance there.
That said that was years ago before the world really went to shit. So I’m sure its a lot worse now.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
young people don’t want to live in small cities. they are boring.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 days ago
Here is the thing they really shouldnrealize though.
Most smallncities are close enough to large cities. Especially for how much of theb"exciting stuff" you end up actually doing. And you get a massive sabings in Cost of Living.
Like I am in the middle of Illinois. My COL is superlow. If I want to go to a concert, I can easily hit Chicago, St Louis, or Indianapolis in a 3 hour drive, get a hotel if I need to, and still be out ahead because my rent/mortgage isn’t some rediculous 2000/month+.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Well sorry then. I dont really have sympathy for people who are able to work and won’t live where the work is because its “boring”. That sounds a little whiny to me. This is why I’m on the fence about ubi and such. Lazy shitheads that could work and produce value but refuse.
Obviously the disabled or unable to work should have safety nets, yes. But whiny people who dont want to do hard jobs or live in a boring place, sorry, suck it up. For millions of years if you didnt do the hard work, you died. Its not that bad.
sobchak@programming.dev 6 days ago
That’s crazy. Straight out of high-school, I spent about six months driving around and applying to a job or 2 every day before I got a job (applying to pretty much every business in the small towns I lived near; McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Walmart, factories, everything). Now, I’m an unemployed software engineer, and I’ve probably applied to > 500 jobs, and still no luck (I think every job posting gets > 1000 applications in this job market). The vast majority of the time, I never actually get a chance to even talk to a person to impress them with my awkwardness and anxiety :)
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
different people live in different worlds, and are unable to understand other people aren’t them.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I understand it, I just choose to live in less populated areas. I don’t believe humans should be crammed together like sardines in the millions. Sad way to live, for me.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Ah, I do feel bad for ya. Tbh you probably deserve way more pay than me. I can’t do any of that stuff.
Maybe there is just too many people in the world wanting the same job. Idk how to fix it!! I’d be all for automating everything as much as possible but that just leads to us being destitute slaves with no agency even worse than now. At least right now we have a tiny bit of power with our labor, which is all we have against the ruling class