[empathygeezer]

Everybody else wants to give you hope. There is none. I am on a dozen slacks, and these stories of desparation are far too frequent. This downtown is far, far, far worse than 1993, 2000 and 2008.

The privileged rich libertarian crypto bros who work at FAANG are all suffering from survivorship bias. Don’t let them makw you feel like shit, their hardships will come in a year or two as well.

I am in the same boat. Nearly 25 years of experience, but I got fired a week after Covid lockdowns began and haven’t been able to find anything since.

Covid was really hard on me, I’ve lost both my parents, my best friend and maky others. I caught covid while holding my mother when she died of the same disease, and my body has never recovered, nor has my spirit.

I ran out of short term savings about a month ago and now I’m living in a friend’s broken down sprinter van after having sold everything I owned.

Just sold my laptop, and promised my mother’s ghost I would try until 1 January. Then I will stop taking my medicine and within a day or two I will join her and my dad. This way I wont have to eat into my estranged son’s college fund.

Good luck.

[sage76]

I'd tell you that your thought process is wrong, but fuck me I'm in the same boat.

What makes it worse is the general perception that money is just raining in tech and I'm somehow deficient for not making millions when "everyone else" is.

At least in many other industries like showbiz, people know it's hard to break in and make it. So expectations are set.

[rrgok]

Wow, that hit hard "I'm somehow deficient for not making millions when "everyone else" is". This the same sentence/phrase all me relatives keep saying to me. They all think that, since I'm a Software Engineer, I should be making millions, or at least well above average, and if I'm not then I'm not trying hard enough.