I sent out legitimately 400 applications and got no responses. These arent like indeed autofill applications, either.

One day, i got a text from a friend offering me a job. I applied and was rejected via phone call.

The next day, i recieved a call from an entirely unaffiliated person who offered me a job without an interview or anything. Ive been paid my salary 8 times now while waiting on security clearance and have been binging shows with my wife.

Life is weird, man.

This is the job market today, to a large degree. I suppose there may be some amount of age bias, as with anything, but this is how things are lately.

Here is a step-wise approach to solving the employment crisis (and many others):

Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Bernard Arnault, Jensen Huang, Steve Ballmer, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Amancio Ortega, Michael Dell, Carlos Slim Helú, Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Julia Koch, Zhong Shanshan

Capitalism throws away the sick and the old.

Have they tried showing up in person, asking to see the manager and giving them a strong handshake?

Or is it that the job market has been fucked for a while.

Ageism has been an issue for a long time, but becomes more noticeable in the lean years. My friend was just canned on day 89, and she's 55, whip-smart and finished an MBA this year focused on machine learning and its application in finance (not a slouch or a fogey).

It's a challenge since the people who were mentored are now easier to ignore. Hope to fuck I never need a heart machine because I've seen who's gonna be writing their firmware.

Only job security is to make VP.

hundreds of applications and a handful of interviews? they're doing better than younger people, then.