r/myfreelancers

Maybe this is a depressing take but I genuinely feel like our generation was sold a dream that doesn’t exist anymore.

Study hard. Get a degree. Work hard. Stay loyal. Eventually life becomes stable.

But now I’m seeing degree holders earning RM2.5k in KL while rent, food, Grab, insurance, and literally existing keeps getting more expensive every year.

And the craziest part?
You can do EVERYTHING right and still get ghosted by companies for months.

I know people with years of experience applying to hundreds of jobs and still hearing nothing back. Then companies complain “young people don’t want to work anymore.”

Some of my friends are burned out in corporate.
Some gave up and started doing Grab/Foodpanda.
Some migrated to Singapore/Australia.
Some are pretending everything is okay on LinkedIn while silently panicking about money.

I even know people with “good jobs” who still can’t imagine buying a house or starting a family anymore.

At this point I honestly understand why so many Malaysians want to leave.

Feels like we’re surviving instead of actually living.

Curious if anyone else feels this way lately or maybe I’m just too deep in my own quarter-life crisis 😅

I have been unemployed for 2 years now and I'm at a point where I do not know what to do anymore.

I had multiple interviews, made it to several stages and then, nothing. Several recruiters and HR have approached me, but they do not think that I am a viable candidate as I have a 2 years gap in my resume.

I used my time as a web dev freelancer and also did some personal projects using different tech stacks. But these don't seem to count towards my experience.

There are multiple occasions where I feel like ending it all, but I have a wife and a 9 months old baby. I feel like i'm a failure as a husband and a father. My savings are nearing its limits and i'm barely scraping doing grab car.

Any advice on how I could pull myself back up?

According to the latest Malaysia economic monitor report, unemployment lowest since 2014. Economic up 4%, jobs employed below their qualification. But our wallet getting thinner than ever.
Are we getting more materialistic or too much burden sucking our wallet?