[selectedambient]

100% feel that, finishing my mscs in august. keep your head down and keep working on things that are genuinely useful to you and affect your daily life. often, if you're having a problem, others are having the same problem. it is rough out there though, that is undeniable.

[jidhn]

Yep. Wdym but keep working on things that are genuinely useful to you. You mean like open source contributions?

[selectedambient]

for sure; you can contribute to things you already use, or build things you will genuinely use every day that solves problems you struggle with. 90% of my builds are just things i wanted. i'm sure there are others that share this sentiment. just my 2c.