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The harder I work the less I'm paid
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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You're not paid for how hard you work, you're paid for how hard you are to replace.
True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won't have difficulty finding one that does.
"Act your wage" is just a poor excuse to normalize laziness.
The entire video game industry would love a word.
I'd argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.
I know dozens of people who've been looking for over a year, for anything in the software field. The issue is companies would rather hire a kid straight out of school than pay for someone with experience. I'm in a discord channel of people (from the last place I worked at that has now gone bankrupt) and the vast majority are still without a job. Most are going outside the industry into the standbys (food service, warehouse, etc). My linkedin was so depressing, post after post about people who used to be engineers I worked with now getting hurt working in Amazon Fulfillmment centres, I just stopped going there and use discord/indeed for job searching. I'm really close with the QA team from my last job, and all but one of them have moved back in with their parents.
It is fucking bleak in software right now.
Not sure where people think everyone is going to go; there are more closures than job openings.
Oh boy. That's what I like to see after a year unemployed from software.
I wish you the best, I'm looking outside software in general. I used to offer to help people find employment in games but now I just can't. I've seen too many people broken by it.
I do hope you find something, anything, so you can continue to survive.
Yeah, I was adjacent to the game industry for a minute and am aware of how much churn business execs force on developers. Good luck yourself in your search
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