Job searchers, how are you doing? Its been a bleak couple of years for the creative job market, how are people hanging in? How are you navigating extended unemployment?

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Unemployed for close to a year. I'm surviving on freelance work and pocket change coming in from my own online brand that I've recently started building up. Scary times for sure, and I'm better off than some of my industry friends.

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I am new to being unemployed, but so far it seems a little scary. It feels very impersonal now and too much reliability on AI to calculate who the best fit is for any position. I love design and debating on doing something different and starting my own design company at the same time and try to build it up over time.

Not good so far. Unemployed since August and I would hate to spend the holidays unemployed but it seems like that will be the case.

I’ve had good interviews and leads but they either end up ghosting or moving in a different direction.

I got a contract role after 7 months and still interviewing for full time when something comes up.

I’m passively looking, but I have no experience with roles I actually qualify for, just experience in sectors otherwise.

it’s been bones and dust, my dude.

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