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UK peeps who have job-hunted lately - how bad is it? Super bad?
I know people who've gone months, or weeks.
I'm a scientifically-trained person who likes words (writing, editing) and can do a decent talk (though I'd prefer not to)
I absolutely do not want to be forced to use genAI for work, or be buried in other people's use of it.
I fear this is fast becoming impossible to avoid.
Emigrating is not a trivial thing.
Ageism is a lot more serious than most people realise.
If we did not have endemic IT industry ageism in the West, we would not have digital sovereignty issues in Europe, because the ubiquitous use of American cloud computing services are the direct result of near-universal technological incompetence in the IT industry.
If you know how to Do Computers you do not outsource core domestic IT services to "the Cloud". You only do this if there is essential need, such as an ecommerce site with vast scaling requirements.
If you put your company's data on another company's computers, you are incompetent. If you put your national government's data in another country, you are worse than incompetent.
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@noodlemaz
> I know people who've gone months, or weeks.
Is that perceived as bad now? O_o
I was out of work 2009-2013. I applied for an average -- just calculated -- of about 15 jobs per working day for that entire period. Total was ~3,500. I worked about 6-8 full-time paid weeks in those 4 years, and I got about 5 invitations to job interviews in that time. In other words, I averaged about 1 interview per 1,000 applications, roughly one per year.
This is why I emigrated.