I'm beginning to HATE when a recruiter says to me, "your skill set is so rare. It's so hard to find good C++ Windows developers. And you know MFC. And you have experience with C#.". Like, save the flattery if I'm not getting a job out of it. Sorry for ranting....

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For the past 4 years I’ve been studying web development. As a guy that used to do sales a ton, we used to live and die by law of averages. You probably know what law of averages is so I’ll spare a full explanation, but the more competitive a market is the rougher the law of averages is. I only say this because it sounds like you would benefit from putting yourself out there more, so law of averages can pay off.

Additionally, sometimes we have to become numb to the pain to get the progress we are looking for. It’s always the people that push past the pain points that get to the winners circle first. Maybe consider doing something solo. Most of the people that make a ton of money started off with solo ownership of something first.

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Like the ones that go "your skillet is highly specialized but UNFORTUNATELY"... I'm starting to hate that word it's just always used to mask the truth

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Where buzzwords go to die

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Yep. I hear you all. If we're so good at something the why the, "Unfortunately"? I came to a conclusion that in this day an age it's a matter of hiring someone with less experience. Young, inexperienced and CHEAP.

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I see mostly sr dev positions rn on linkedin. Very very few jr dev/ mid

I don't understand why these interviewers can't seem to see that if your skilled in one particular area, that it means you can very likely learn other things as well. For example, if you know C++, why can't they see that you can learn other languages and that your previous experience helps to lower the learning curve?

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OMG, I'm so with you on this one, OP...
I wanna also add that hearing "you are overqualified" for a position that is clearly not for a junior (I have 8y of experience) makes me wanna go rage. 😅
Thanks, I'm flattered, but I'm not getting a job like this...

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You can use me a reference. I 'll make you shine even though I don't know you, lol! Instant job 4 you via social networking!

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What about moving to one of the heavy demand technology? You could make use of the expertises like C#, but decorate the resume with web technologies using microsoft dotnet.

Would adding HTML5, PHP, etc to your resume help? With everything going web based, a lot of companies need people to maintain and up date their internal/external sites. Just a thought.

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