Career Advice (laid off recently from my tech job)

Sorry to hear that and this isn't that uncommon so you aren't alone. I see a lot of bootcamp grads with a "I will do anything to break into the industry" attitude and the hustle carries them for a a year, two, sometimes a bit longer, but the fundamental gaps eventually come out and it impacts people pretty hard. I wish bootcamps talked about this more openly. I'm super pissed off at Codesmith for advertising a success case last week 'from Codesmith to $150,000 job' and left out the person graduated in 2018, worked somewhere for 2.5 years, and THEN got the $150K job in 2021. The journey just STARTS with the first job, but for the bootcamp itself it's the END and they advertise it that way and even places like Codesmith that offer "lifetime support" don't actually offer that and it's a marketing label. Don't want to play the victim here and I have real advice haha: 1. Do a master's degree 2. Pivot to a tech adjacent role that feels more aligned with your previous experience - not the ones with the most advertised jobs, but one you have EXPERIENCE that you can bring to the table. 3. Try to find another generalist SWE role and keep going through the ups and downs, expecting more downs too, and in 3-5 years you might stabilize a bit more as you build up your SWE experience.