"Work for free" has been the pitch to college grads and vocational track kids since time immemorial.

You're just told, over and over again, to accept the work without the income from day one.

Turning over the economy and it's "Oops! All MLMs!"

Ten years ago when I first graduated game development with honours, there wasn't any local jobs in my field or studios that would bring me over, so while working minimum wage full time for a few years I released a video game solo and several smaller projects that all made no money, and then I finally got hired.... at a shit starter job with a 1.5 hour commute time by bus. Meanwhile I had friends with wealthy parents and connections who got hired immediately.

I released more projects, and was applying to other jobs during my lunch hours, and a year later I got a software job that doubled my salary and now I am doing well. I paid off all my loans and then bought a townhouse last year at 30. I don't find recruiters now, they find me.

I do not like the idea of other people having to go through what I did. My early 20's were a hellish grindfest that no one should have to do. Genz has it even worse and I have seen it in the workplace.

I don't know what to tell you, other than you're not alone. Most people have a huge reality check in their 20s and adulthood hits hard... because we're not taxing the billionaires.

Absolutely. If you're in college, an internship is ideal.

And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience...

This after they'd been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a "culture fit" check.

So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a "support tech in a Linux server environment" for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren't calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.

She could just have held 5 relevant part time jobs at the same time for a year. Boom, 5 years experience in a years time. Resume math

No work experience? Obviously u just don't want to work

So managers are just insanely detached from reality?

I think it's easy for them to fall into a trap where they artificially inflate the requirements just because there is interest in the position.

So in a sense, yes, they've lost touch.

They also forget that every year, the "best" interviewees use them as a practice round and leverage for a more prestigious company. Inevitably, they chase unicorns at the expense of everything else. Every year, 3 colleges, hundreds of hours of interview rounds for 10-15 positions and they'd end up with 3-5 that actually started the paid internship.

Reddit in a nutshell.

You can't post without enough karma but how the fuck do you get karma if they don't even let you post?

This is why Lemmy is better.

Swift?
Edit: nvm.

https://imgur.com/BGxsTlH