I've worked in IT for the better part of a decade. At my previous position, my entire division was laid off to be off-shored last year and I took up a temporary IT contract role at a hospital to pay the bills where I was basically a glorified handyman while I continued looking for a full-time position. My contract has ended and I'm once again unemployed and still searching for work and am falling into despair at the dehumanizing state of the job search in the current market.

Help.

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I wish I could fix it for you and everyone else in this position. “Hang in there” is stupid and useless in this situation, and the truth is I’m not in a position to help, and if nothing else, all I can do is hope that this reply maybe helps you keep fighting. I also hope one day soon we all don’t have to fight so hard to just be here.

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Start an llc, and see about contracting work (either/or/ both).
I have a grad degree and beginner dev skills, laid off since Feb 2025. Started an llc the following month, while applying, as an anchor. Use AI to help you get started, if needed. Especially with IT and coding....id start with independent businesses in your local community and globally online.
W2 employee work is on life support, rapidly dying off the closer we get to 2030, in my opinion.
Keep us posted! Praying for opportunities for all of us in these days! Stay persistent & consistent.... you got this!

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That's the most useless and self-serving bit of "advice" I've ever seen. It makes no sense either.

Im in a similar situation. 18 years in IT. Almost a year out of work. Tried to pivot to related roles only seeing job ads gets taken down after a few days due to the volume of applicants. The market is so saturated.

The last two weeks I had to ask friends for gas money so I could take my son to day care. I don’t know how much help I can be. But here I go.

Do you talk to your former coworkers? What have they done to secure jobs or are they out of work too?

How have you been using Ai to tailor your resume?

Are you focusing on inside, remote, hybrid?

Have you gone to the major recruiters job postings? Do they have any recruiters that are willing to work with you? Make friends with some of them on LinkedIn.

Have you done any upskilling?

Where do you think you are weak? Resume? Interview? Searching?

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