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I seriously need help. Company I worked in this company for 12 years and they just decided to shut down the whole thing and let us all go. At first, I was optimistic, I thought with my 31 years of experience in Software development (various technologies and still learning), I will find job in no time! I didn't take this too seriously, sadly, because I had one chance and I blew it because I wasn't prepared. And I had no ide how bad job market is now. And it's BAD.
I am gen X. No one wants to hire us, unless we are super-mega-experts in some very new field of expertise that everyone needs. My personal expertise, databases and SQL is, and that's putting it lightly, oversaturated to the point that any job opening that is asking for SQL developer in any area receives thousands of applicants in few hours and gets close in a matter of single day! I tried learning additional things, got into SSIS/ETL (pretty interesting), Power BI (easy if you are good with Excel), Python (going well but really enormous to learn), and other things, but demands on job market are just getting bigger and bigger! Most job ads are now listing "what you will do" and requirements for job in several pages, basically each position is work for at least two jobs! And requirements are wild! And since I live in Serbia, salaries often don't follow usual salaries for similar positions in Europe or USA, and go around 1500 Euros per month. Sadly, even the wildest jobs with long long long descriptions receive hundreds of applicants and even reaching humans is virtually impossible. I tried reaching companies even through just mail and over ads, and received nothing but rejection after rejection.
Since I too, like everyone else, need to survive, and feed my numerous cats, and pay bills, and keep my home, if anyone has any idea what can I do to earn at least as much to barely keep my boat afloat, contact me please on my mail (biljaom@yahoo.com) or write here in comments. I am pretty desperate right now, ready to make portraits for people in any technique you prefer (pencil, watercolors, acrylic paint, pastels, whatever) for couple of bucks as we agree (but no money to send you so you can get only HQ scan on mail, sorry), guaranteed no AI, or I can write for you anything that I have any knowledge of, or if anyone has any other idea, I am ready to hear.
This is a person that no one wants to hire anymore because apparently I am super old, 54, and software developers have to be pretty and young and dynamic, and know 13 technologies and be full stack, and devOPS, networks and security specialist, etc, and know all about everything, and I don't. And I am apparently too old to be software developer so other than just to die, because I am too young for retirement (go figure!) I need some source of income soon.

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For other jobs, I am considered overqualified and not qualified in their area so I have no chance there too. Besides that, many jobs in Serbia have salaries under 1000 euros, even 800 euros per month and I still can't get even those. And, there are people who need them more than I do.

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Thank you in advance!










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