the really irritating thing is that even if I wanted to go into a new industry, there's no job openings in other industries for juniors either, as far as I can tell.

I'm stuck here until I get laid off, fired, or otherwise replaced with some defective llm.

and the real insult is not just that nobody's willing to pay for my skills, but that the overriding directives are to deliberately ignore everything that I have done or tried to recommend and to do something that is fully, knowingly opposed to that.
every openclaw installation I see is someone looking me in the eye and saying "I am going to do this wrong on purpose and you can't stop me."
kinda hard to live like this.
@munin It's not just depressing, it's demoralizing.

@drwho

pretty much lost all my morale when I realized the hiring pipeline was broken and juniors aren't a thing anymore.

@munin Neither are seniors. Doesn't matter if you invented the damn thing, they're not interested.

@drwho

well yeah, that writing was on the wall once they eliminated the juniors and all the potential pipeline for working your way up.

idk what to do at this point.

@munin Neither do I.

I'm scared for my family.