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I see the unemployment stats and they just don’t align with any of my lived experience nor that of anyone I know personally.
If I go on LinkedIn, every job listing says “over 100 people clicked apply”. I’ve done ~60 applications through various places and heard back from only 1, which proceeded to ghost me. Any of my frends that have found one did ~500, and not even at a livable wage so they’re still living with their parents. Every employer says their inbox gets so filled with applicants that they admit they have to resort to some poor heuristic (like applying in the first hour or having a ton of connections on LinkedIn). I’ve heard employers of service jobs are getting tons of overqualified candidates as runoff. I’ve shown my resume to people I know with multiple decades of experience in the field I want to work in and they tell my my resume is good. Of those that employ, they don’t have a position for me to fill but tell me if they did they’d hire me.
Is there a way on bls.gov to search unemployment by field, education, years of experience, etc.? I suspect it’d be K-shaped, with newlygrads getting the shit end of the stick.
For basically any chan board when you hover over a “>>#######” it shows the post it points to.
I could sympathize with your point if VGM was still the blips and blops of cheap midi synths like it was in Doom’s hayday. Heck, I still someshat sympathize with the idea that VGM just doesn’t work as well as albums for making a pure listening experience because the game inherently restricts it’s format (though I’d say it depends on the game). But VGM by [current year] has gotten so good I must ask what VGM you have heard. Would you make the same claim for film soundtracks?
Unsolicited VGM suggestions that I think prove my point
Expedition 33, Neon White, Ultrakill, Team Fortress 2, Hyper Light Drifter
Then ask that question to yourself and think about whether the verification of an age is the issue with what’s going on here
Verification is the issue. Or, rather, it would be if there was any verification here at all.
I could put 1970-01-01 in that field no problem. Systemd has asked for precisely 0 additional information from any of its users, because it neither asks you to fill it in nor verifies that what you filled it with is correct. Just like the real name and location fields that were already present, which, might I remind you, are also PII.
Systemd isn’t the problem here. The laws are a problem and pissing in systemd’s direction won’t change that.
I don’t mean to say the data is invalid, but you’re using the data to imply this experience and others like it are invalid. Maybe you don’t mean to do that but that’s what it sounds like.
Your point about zip codes though doesn’t really make sense to me for a few reasons.
Firstly, from the data that i can find, in my state the unemployment rates are only a little worse than the national average, in the “not great, but not hell” range you describe (report).
Secondly, a little over half of the positions I’m applying for are remote ones across the country, so they’d have to be discriminating on my zip for some reason, including the ones whom I never told where I live. The one employer that briefly got back to me was a local one just a county over for what that’s worth.
Thirdly, I only share a zip code with one of my friends, and he’s in the ‘has a job and lives with his parents’ camp; his job is also utterly unrelated to what he studied in university (though to be fair it’s in a field with historically poor employment).
From what I’ve seen, some people are getting jobs after getting layed off. The problem is that now I, with <1 year of experience, am now competing with others who have 3-5 for the same position. No company in this economy is going to choose me outside of a gamble.