I've read hundreds of posts from 5+ YOE FAANG devs unemployed for months, toiling after countless rejections but getting nowhere. I'm barely 1.5 YOE, unemployed now, sending out endless applications, but by my estimates a mediocre programmer. I feel I lucked out with my first job. The problem is I can't get myself to code endlessly in my free time like some people do: it's fairly fun to solve puzzles, but I don't enjoy it with the feverish intensity that the best developers seem to.
The market isn't the limitless growth starry-eyed future it was during the first 20 years of the 21st century. Now I imagine with AI, headcounts are just going to whittle down to the bare essentials as junior devs become completely unneeded, thus removing their chance of getting enough experience to level up to senior.
Considering all this, should I just focus my efforts on starting my own business, or switch career paths? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but so far, after dozens of interviews that led nowhere, the results aren't changing.
The market isn't the limitless growth starry-eyed future it was during the first 20 years of the 21st century. Now I imagine with AI, headcounts are just going to whittle down to the bare essentials as junior devs become completely unneeded, thus removing their chance of getting enough experience to level up to senior.
Considering all this, should I just focus my efforts on starting my own business, or switch career paths? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but so far, after dozens of interviews that led nowhere, the results aren't changing.