Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP.

I was supposed to talk to a recruiter today which was scheduled last week. She canceled at the last minute. It's probably not a job I would be able to get anyway... but everything just sucks.

And yea, I feel bad for everyone going through this. I've been at my firm for 15 years. It has been stable work and I have been promoted every 2-3 years like clockwork. And now I'm looking at jobs paying about the same as when I started. I look overqualified for them (because I am). I can't help feel like the last 15 years have been erased and the only way to get a job at this point is to make my resume look like I'm junior to midlevel instead of senior level.

I’m the PP in the field. I had to take a step down last year, going from a Director to a Program Manager in order to make a transition. I did that for a year. I was recently hired to return to my previous level. Not everyone has to do this, of course. But for me it worked well and it was worth it for the transition I needed to make. So, it may not be great in the moment but it could all work out.

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP.

I was supposed to talk to a recruiter today which was scheduled last week. She canceled at the last minute. It's probably not a job I would be able to get anyway... but everything just sucks.

And yea, I feel bad for everyone going through this. I've been at my firm for 15 years. It has been stable work and I have been promoted every 2-3 years like clockwork. And now I'm looking at jobs paying about the same as when I started. I look overqualified for them (because I am). I can't help feel like the last 15 years have been erased and the only way to get a job at this point is to make my resume look like I'm junior to midlevel instead of senior level.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is who is going to buy/rent all these expensive apartments and homes being built in the dc area? ESP Montgomery County?

Whom has a job to pay these rents?

No one. And the developers would rather take a loss and a tax break than offer a lower rent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, DH is a fed in the field and let me tell you that it sucked before this. The difference here is that it is now happening to you. I don’t think it should be happening to you and it’s terrible. But don’t “misremember” the good old days of last year when the country was riding high. It’s been tough (not impossible but very tough) for years.

This is not to say that’s it’s right or you don’t have cause to be very upset. This is to say that other people have been struggling and this wouldn’t be new to them.

I'm sorry other people have been struggling in various fields, but it's a denial of objective reality to say this is just the same as, say, 2023 and the OP only notices because it affects them.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, DH is a fed in the field and let me tell you that it sucked before this. The difference here is that it is now happening to you. I don’t think it should be happening to you and it’s terrible. But don’t “misremember” the good old days of last year when the country was riding high. It’s been tough (not impossible but very tough) for years.

This is not to say that’s it’s right or you don’t have cause to be very upset. This is to say that other people have been struggling and this wouldn’t be new to them.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, DH is a fed in the field and let me tell you that it sucked before this. The difference here is that it is now happening to you. I don’t think it should be happening to you and it’s terrible. But don’t “misremember” the good old days of last year when the country was riding high. It’s been tough (not impossible but very tough) for years.

This is not to say that’s it’s right or you don’t have cause to be very upset. This is to say that other people have been struggling and this wouldn’t be new to them.

Anonymous wrote:My question is who is going to buy/rent all these expensive apartments and homes being built in the dc area? ESP Montgomery County?

Whom has a job to pay these rents?

Anonymous wrote:Yep. Trump has declared war on Americans. He wants there to be an underclass. He wants you to pick up a vegetable harvesting job to replace the immigrants.