That band said: Welcome to the jungle, welcome to the jungle, nananana na niii niii… yes. Here we go.
Let’s start with the LinkedIn romanticizing: bazillions of positions — but no real opportunities. If you don’t know the secret of that industry, I’ll tell it to you: you need to know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone… otherwise, you’re in limbo.
After many years working in the IT industry, with experience in Open Source, the Linux kernel, and a bunch of security, I found myself in limbo. The process of getting attention from a company starts only if your resume gets noticed — in the era of AI screening? Forget it! Unless, of course, you’re not playing by the rules. If you’re familiar with the regex-match concept, you’ll get it very quickly. These days, that’s what it’s all about. It reminds me of my past days working at a local company, where I was asked to triage good candidates for a position. The one I chose? The one with no experience, but who was very motivated to learn and was passionate about it. Yep — no regex-match in his resume. A couple of years later, that person became a very active member of the open source community, making history and becoming an excellent professional. Why am I telling you this? Because it’s not about whether you match or not — it’s all about potential, about whether you’re willing, whether you have passion. It’s about opportunities.
But I’m probably romanticizing that too, we live in an unequal world with stupid wars around us. Opportunity is, of course, a joke. Well, back to the jungle to watch that terrible reality show.
XOXO — send me jobs! I dare you!
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