The great displacement is already well underway?

I am the author of this piece, and i didn't share it to HN, I don't hang out here. I just gotta say wow, tough crowd. i wrote this piece from an emotionally low point after another fruitless day of applying to jobs. I didn't have a particular agenda in mind. I was voicing what i've been through and some of what I was experiencing with no expectations.

you'll notice in the comments section that the population of substackistan is much less FUCKING CYNICAL AND NEGATIVE than you guys, with many commenters saying they are in the same position. I heard from writers, designers, engineers, going through similar times.

my portfolio site is https://shawnfromportland.com, you can find my resume there. if you have leads that you think I might match with you can definitely send them my way, I will even put a false last name on an updated resume for you guys.

for those who are wondering, I legally changed my name to K long ago because my dad's last name starts with K, but I didn't like identifying with his family name everywhere i went because he was not in my life and didnt contribute to shaping me. I thought hard about what other name I could choose but nothing resonated with me. I had already been using Shawn K for years before legally changing it and it was the only thing that felt right.

I am sorry that you're going through this. For what it's worth (not much, I'm afraid), I feel your pain. The difference for me, was that I had saved enough to be able to walk away from the rat race.

It's highly likely that some self-reflection could help, here. I have found it to be useful, but also extremely difficult and humbling (and very much worth it).

It sounds like the main issue, is getting past the "gatekeepers," whether AI, or the classic Clueless HR Droid. As far as your résumé goes, there's no difference.

So the obvious answer, is to figure out how to craft your CV to get past them. This was never something that I mastered, myself. I probably could have done better, if I had put the effort into it. In my case, I often got at least phone screenings. It was after that, that the wheels came off.

Upstate NY is pretty moribund. It is the ruins of an old manufacturing economy. Cheap housing, but there's a reason for that cheap. It sounds like any job would be remote, unless you got something in Albany or Rochester (the only two places up there that really use tech).

I would gently suggest that part of that "self-reflection," is to avoid public online polemics. They are probably not gonna help.

Sincerely, good luck.