u/brigmir

Hello everyone,

I'm brazilian, 25y, bachelor in CS and have worked in several companies as an intern and my last job was as a Junior Developer in the biggest enternainment company in Brazil, if not Latin America.

I worked in this company for 3.5 years (2 as intern, 1.5 as junior), and everyone on the team always spoke highly of my work. Well, everyone but the Coordinator (idk if this position exists in foreign companies, but it's like the Manager of an area with a lot of teams).

He fired me in February, before he went to manage another area, saying my technical work was great, but that other things were missing (never went down the road to tell me exactly what) and that I was not a good fit in the team.

Since then, I've been looking for another job and literally NOTHING shows up, the job market here is awfull for someone with low experience and plus, I have no portfolio (since I always worked and studied, there wasnt time for making a portfolio) and right now I'm really not into the area anymore, feeling down and discouraged, mainly because it's been 7 years working remotely and the wage vs. expenses here is not something that allows you to go out that much, so most of my time I spend home alone. I have tried doing some projects but I just can't make it out of the paper, I get tired even before I start writing code.

I'm thinking about a career change, something that still has to do with technology so I don't waste my bachelor, but has more "human contact" (or animal contact, for that matter)

Also thinking about migrating to another country. Things here really suck if you're not rich, and working with more "basic jobs" such as contruction etc makes almost impossible to maintain a life.

Just so you have more context, the minimum wage here is R$1.600 and a 1bd rent in a favela (as cheap as it gets) is about R$600

Well, if anyone has ever been through something like this, any advice would be good.

Maybe I'm just venting, idk