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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's horrible. My husband was laid off in September, he has networked consistently (many of his contacts are currently laying off workers), keeps applying to anything even remotely reasonable and keeps hitting dead ends. He's an awesome guy and great at what he does (software developer) but he's an introvert and the interview process really rattles his nerves. They keep picking the other guy after multiple interviews rounds.

We were doing so well and had built up a nice nest egg for ourselves with dreams of an early-ish retirement, maybe 6-8 more years for him at his previous salary. Our kids are still young and our retirement plans are disappearing before our eyes each month that goes by. I scrambled to get a new job with better benefits and better pay but I'm still grieving the dream job I had to leave. I feel terrible for him and everyday I hope that a job offer with finally materialize but he's barely even getting interviews at this point. We're both mentally and physically exhausted and it sucks to go into the holidays this way. [/quote]

Yes, it is horrible.  At least twenty of my software developer colleagues and former colleagues, who made at least 250K per year, were laid off in the past eighteen months, and are still struggling to get jobs that even pay 150K per year.  The vast majority of them are 40+, and have been out of work for at least eleven months.  The job market is so bad, and if you're 40+, it is very difficult if not almost possible to land a software developer job these days.  I am still working but I am waiting for the other shoes to drop anytime now.[/quote]

They should get jobs for the government, like working at NIST or NASA, at 40+ they should be millionaires already or they aren’t cut out for tech. Too bad gov is a cluster. [/quote]

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