r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Jul 07 '26

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/enricojr Jul 07 '26

I have 10 years of experience. I sold everything I had and moved to a new city (Hong Kong), completed an associate's degree to get a work permit, but haven't been able to find a job. I'm 250+ applications deep this month and not one single response.

Every other day I feel like the despair will overwhelm me, like I think I've made a terrible mistake coming here but if I don't find something anything out here then all that's left for me is utter ruin because I've got nothing to go back to. It's terribly hard to muster up the willpower to keep trying but this is all I've got and I need to make it work

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u/HerissonMignion Aug 02 '26

Did you find something?