u/SD_TMI

I'm a 2026 graduate, and I've been looking for a Software Engineering job for more than 6 months now.

I've spent years learning DSA, competitive programming and development. I have a decent profile, built projects, solved a lot of problems, and genuinely tried to improve myself.

I've applied through company websites, LinkedIn, referrals, cold emails, job portals, pretty much every route I could think of.

But the hardest part isn't getting rejected.

It's not even getting the chance to be rejected.

It's applying again and again, putting hours into applications, seeing hundreds of other people applying, and then getting absolutely nothing back.

At first, I was confident that if I kept working hard, something would eventually work out.

Then months passed.

Now I'm at a point where I'm still trying, but the motivation isn't the same anymore. It's difficult to keep convincing yourself that the next application might be different when you've already sent so many.

I'm only 21, so I know I have plenty of time. But watching months go by without being able to start my career is genuinely depressing.

I don't want sympathy. I just wanted to know if anyone else has been through this phase and eventually managed to turn things around.

Because right now, I'm slowly running out of hope.

Officials found 60 abronia lizards, four venomous yellow- blotched palm pit vipers, three caimans, one baby crocodile, and one indigo snake concealed in the car.

The image does NOT show 60 abronia in that bucket.
These are a collection of endangered mountain species that live in the Mexican cloud forests they require temp is in the 70ºF range.

it's been over 90ºF and the IDIOT CUSTOMS Agents left the god dam car out and exposed when they KNEW the woman was a exotic reptile smuggler. What you see here in the bucket are animals that are in distress and I'm positive there's a good deal of organ damage. So while they're alive right now, I'd expect a die off from the heat stress.
A qualified person (a rare set of expertise in the indsutry) will have to deal with and help them recover this ordeal, if possible. Despite claims to the contrary on different sites, there's really not a good well worked out husbandry and care parameters for these. All that stuff is put out there to give a false sense of confidence to help make the sales from other successfully smuggled animals.

Some of the animals baked to death in the heat and if this was not a federal agent neglecting these, they would be arrested for animal cruelty (serious). It's bad enough that these species we're plundered a decade ago due to a legal loophole but that they're still being smuggled for the exotic pet trade and sold as "domestically produced" and NOBODY checks to verify.

regardless, the most valuable (electric blue) and mossy - mottled species, sub species and geolocality types aren't represented here, these seem to be all emeralds and were likely collected all from the same locality. I personally hate the people in this trade, they drive entire species towards extinction (Also fuck Asia and their "anything goes" mentality concerning wild animals)

A nearby low pressure system is giving us a reprieve from weeks of extreme heat, but temperatures are set to warm up again by next week.

Several of my coworkers and I were laid off a year ago from remote jobs (I was working as a project manager at a San Diego SaaS company that was bought by private equity). A few of us were lucky to barely survive a round of layoffs the year prior, but after we trained a couple teams in the Philippines and India to do our work, they finally closed down our teams stateside.

With all the layoffs we keep hearing about in tech, how are you all faring? Have you had to pivot to different types of roles? Any advice?

Edit: fixed typo. Philippines, not Philippians

Anthony's Fish Grotto, a local treasure in La Mesa, celebrates 80 years of serving San Diego with its iconic seafood and cherished community connections.

There's a launch tonight... everything goes here!

People wonder why we have such high rates... a major part of this is because of a secret 4 billion dollar deal to pass the expense of San Onofre's decommissioning onto us vs taking it out of decades of SDGE/SEMPRA stockholder profits.