| Yes... with qualifications. I saw the dot com crash up close (wasn't laid off, but I saw the people who were recently laid off in the local pub with a pager that wasn't buzzing next to a pint glass... or the guy with a masters working the late shift at Blockbuster). When the housing crash came with its recession and layoffs, I was part of that. If I had done a "I want to keep living in SF and maintain my big tech standard of living in an expensive city" it would have been difficult since there were thousands of other people who had that same idea. Instead I moved to the midwest and got a job working in the tech department of a retail company. I did not have too much difficulty finding that job. I've since switched to public sector and that job was not hard to get either (and for those who have applied, we've hired every competent dev who has shown up in the stacks of resumes - as this is public sector, not many apply). There are a lot of jobs out there. Pull up https://careers.walmart.com and go to 'technology' and follow it from there. Hundreds of open positions. If one moves away from expecting that the median job is the big tech job in SF or one that they can get remote... there are a lot of jobs out there. However, from many that I've see on tech career sites, the mere thinking of getting a job at Wallmart is beneath them. That SRE with 1k k8s clusters? https://careers.mcdonalds.com/global-corporate/jobs/40600010... or https://careers-chickfila.icims.com/jobs/12125/lead-site-rel... |