I honestly feel mentally exhausted and confused at this point.
For the last 6 months I invested myself heavily into development + DSA, built projects, learned full-stack, tried improving every single day and hoped it would eventually help me land an internship.
But now when I’m applying, there are barely any responses. Everywhere I look people are talking about layoffs, oversaturation, AI replacing jobs, and how hard the market is.
And after literally banging my head over all of this, I even invested 35k into a Data Science course out of panic/confusion, and now I’m regretting that decision too because I don’t even know if I’m going in the right direction anymore.
I’m currently in 6th semester, placements from my college don’t look very hopeful, so lately I’ve also been thinking seriously about preparing for GATE and maybe going for masters later because right now everything feels uncertain.
Today I finally decided to keep the hardcore DSA/dev grind aside for a while and move a bit towards Data Science + UI/UX because I genuinely love designing and creating frontend experiences, and I don’t want to leave that part behind.
Let’s see where life takes me honestly.
But I genuinely want honest opinions from people already working in tech:
Am I making the right decision or should I continue applying more in development itself?
And if you know any companies/startups currently hiring interns for frontend/full-stack/UIUX/data related roles, please let me know.
Also please don’t try to scam/sell courses in DMs. I’m already mentally very disturbed.