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I’m 49 with two young kids. I left agency life in 2024 due to burnout, moved brand-side, but the company was toxic and I was let go in September. I’ve been job hunting hard—mostly agency roles—but getting nowhere. My wife works full‑time and is pressuring me, and she doesn’t understand why it’s taking so long. How do you talk to a partner about a long job search? The stress is really intense right now.

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Show her all your job application and rejection emails. Sit there and read each one out loud until it sinks in. Then show her LinkedIn job posts and recruiters posts… a 1 day old post will have 80-100 and don’t forget to mention they stop counting after 100.

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This article was 2024. There’s others from 2023 if you dig deep enough

https://www.businessinsider.com/hiring-slump-professional-white-collar-jobs-women-winning-2024-5

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I’m in the same predicament for years and after very long periods of unemployment I have to accept offers I don’t really want and constantly downgrading managerial level, joining toxic places, changing functions, work under idiotic bosses, in order to keep my self afloat. Patience and persistence in job hunting. To prove competence without luck is impossible. Apply to alternative roles where you can transfer skills-my wife was always very supportive and pragmatic regarding corporate realities-so that gave me a slack. You need to make her understand more..

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Man this is so relatable.

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Been there and I’m there now. The reality is it’s supposed to take a month for every $10K you make over $100k but righr now it’s closer to 2 months. Your wife is going to have to choose to believe you that it’s a miserable market or not, but you can’t do much beyond just explain it to her.

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Considering she’s the one with a job and making the money, divorce her and then she can pay you alimony. Problem solved.

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Agencies have crazy hours. In-house has crazy *people.* Which is worse?

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I have been offered an on-site opportunity for Toronto, Canada. What should be the decent yearly pay in Canadian dollars that I should ask for ? I have around 6.5 yrs of experience.

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Hi Fishes,
How is work life balance in Radisys?
Also, how much should I ask for the expected CTC?
I have an offer of 20lpa already.
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Does anyone know of any non profit companies (for loan forgiveness purposes) that offer at least part time, if not full time, telemedicine work? I know this is a long shot but I have been very curious if such a thing exists.

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Upcoming new grads and folks looking for work drop your portfolio links if you’d like feedback! I’ve nearly 20 years in the design field and have experience in print, ui, ux, mobile, web, animation and more.

Feel free to DM me if you want to share privately. I’ll be checking this post periodically over the course of the week.

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Those of you with a degree in computer science (or similar), what do you do for work and how did you end up doing that?

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Can anyone help me with the interview questions for marketing analyst at Agoda Bangkok. ?

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Anyone from Genpact - need referrals.... HELP

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Wanted to get feedback on my new offer.
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Still gonna negotiate. Seems solid to me but I'd like 150 OTE.

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