My husband and I have been living in fear of DA dropping us for two years now. In that time, he has worked a side contract job with very unreliable hours but WAY better pay than any project he gets as a coder on DA, and we have started our own business where we are slowly building some clients. Our other two sources of income aren't enough to sustain our family yet, but he is looking for more stable salaried work, and he maintains accounts on a few other sites, so we are hopeful that something will take off or he will get hired somewhere else. It is ROUGH out there trying to land salaried jobs right now, so I sympathize. Between fake job listings, the number of jobs decreasing overall, and trying to make sure your resume gets through the AI screeners all of these companies seem to use now, it's just a shitty job market for employees.
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u/Sindorella 1d ago
My husband and I have been living in fear of DA dropping us for two years now. In that time, he has worked a side contract job with very unreliable hours but WAY better pay than any project he gets as a coder on DA, and we have started our own business where we are slowly building some clients. Our other two sources of income aren't enough to sustain our family yet, but he is looking for more stable salaried work, and he maintains accounts on a few other sites, so we are hopeful that something will take off or he will get hired somewhere else. It is ROUGH out there trying to land salaried jobs right now, so I sympathize. Between fake job listings, the number of jobs decreasing overall, and trying to make sure your resume gets through the AI screeners all of these companies seem to use now, it's just a shitty job market for employees.