I have 10+ years of experience and have spent 2+ years trying to apply to jobs and transition from agency to in-house product design to no avail. At this point I don't even know if I like this industry anymore...

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Yeah, this industry is pretty cooked. I feel like the tech industry was eaten by a single form field with AI.

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Whats Crazy is Im AI Certified and STILL companies will not hire... Companies are FICKLED right now on what they want to do...so what do they do? Post nothing but FAKERY JOBS.

Same situation except my last role was long term in-house. Company folded unexpectedly leaving me wholly unprepared and without nice case studies and assets to build a fancy looking portfolio. White label software too, so nothing hugely showy to wow recruiters with, despite being technically and strategically far more involved than most Product Design and UX roles ever touch on.

I’m doing everything I can to expand and build up that portfolio again, even launched my own native iOS app and all that’s entailed there. Fully embraced AI native design and development flows as best as I can whilst working solo.

I’m exhausted, finances annihilated, and have pretty much now scrapped the idea of a permanent employee role after a 2 year search. It’s just too damaging for my mental health.

Now taking on small design jobs and frontend work, alongside part time factory work (to ease financial pressure), while I reassess my life!

Sorry, probably not what you wanted to hear.

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don’t call it an industry

What industry you are talking about? Product design? Or graphic design?
Graphic design alone is not a career field from long time ago. You gotta do other things and specialized in graphic.
Product design, this is a never ending learning and adaption field. If you like it and wanna be in, you got to accepted that you will never stop learning and changing. I’m in 40s and have to learn all this AI stuffs to be able to lead the team.

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