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10d •Â
This group is exploding!
Just a few short weeks ago, I only had 12 people in this group. Now, 125! Lets all take the time to introduce yourself if you haven't and let everyone know what is going on with your life. Unemployed, working on a project, job hunting? Let start some conversations and get people engaging in the comments! Than, after you all have gotten to know each other, tell me what would make this place great! Courses, live coffee hours? How about working together on camera, like a hustle marathon? Where are you guys from, what are you doing? Send us links to something you've written. Lets get the comments burning up the server!
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@Jonathan Mukundu Wonderful Jonathan! I am on ZTM. I started Become an A.I. & Machine Learning Engineer. I know Python well. But, I am new A.I. and data science. You can definitively help me with my career goals.
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Here are some links about me. https://x.com/pierretdev https://medium.com/@pierre.thibault_92669 https://substack.com/@pierretdev https://github.com/Pierre-Thibault
21d •Â
Welcome to everyone who just joined.
If you're here, you're probably over 40 and fighting the same fight I am. Sending out resumes that disappear into the void. Getting ghosted by recruiters. Watching younger people get hired for jobs you're overqualified for. Wondering if you're unemployable or if the entire system just broke while you weren't looking. You're not imagining it. The job market is brutal right now. Especially for us. I'm 57. I've been freelancing for over 20 years. I have a degree. I use AI tools every day. I'm faster and better at my work than I've ever been. And I still can't get hired. Not because I'm not good enough. Because companies don't want to invest in people like us anymore. We're too expensive. Too experienced. Too likely to know our worth and not accept garbage wages. This group exists because we're all dealing with the same thing. And most of us are doing it alone. Scrolling LinkedIn at 2am wondering what we're doing wrong. Applying to jobs we're overqualified for and still not getting callbacks. Trying to figure out how to rebuild a career in a market that decided we're disposable. You're not alone. That's why we're here. Drop a comment and introduce yourself. Where are you? What kind of work are you looking for? What's your biggest struggle right now? Let's actually talk about this. Let's help each other. Let's stop pretending this is normal and start figuring out how to survive it together. Welcome. I'm glad you're here.
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Hello, I am a French Canadian, 54, I was working as a software developer doing Python software development for the electrical company Hydro-Quebec. I left at the end of 2023 thinking it would be easy for me to work elsewhere. It has always been. But, it appears that things has changed. It did not work after that. I don't know where I am going on. It is difficult to climb yourself up while seeing the entire world falling apart. I realized that I mostly made my life on autopilot. I did what I was told. I was hooping from one job to another because I like challenges and don't like to stay in place. But, I was not very selective. I didn't care, since I was able to live my life anyway. I started to learn AI recently with ZeroToMastery. Since I know Python well, it is already a great start. I am very excited about learning AI and what I will build with it. I would like to become an entrepreneur. I believe the hardest part is changing my mindset and becoming the one I need to be. I don't know how to position myself. I sold my house recently. I am living on my economy. I am happy to join a group with others in a similar situation. I closed my LinkedIn account. I wasted too much time applying for jobs and I got in returned was only bullshit job offers. I accepted one of these, believing it would help me to be in contact with others. But, things were managed with AI, and it was not possible to speak with the administration. This is quite depressing. LinkedIn is also very cringe. Working is getting psychologically threatening. I cannot follow on Threads, @Jason Weiland . Threads is owned by Facebook and, even after many years, I am banned from Facebook because I don't have the right opinion. I feel digitally excluded. I am mostly alone. I appreciate my solitude.
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@Jason Weiland Sharing your experience like you do is a lot.
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@pierre-thibault-4915
Self-taught senior Python and Java developer. I love Kotlin and I am also learning Rust. I also have an interest in graph and hypergraph.
Active 26m ago
Joined Nov 23, 2025
Levis, Quebec, Canada