Questions: Education & Career

My daughter (16) is in the process of deciding what path to take post high school. Like all high schoolers she has grand desires of what her future will be. Though, honestly, I don't see the value of higher education at the university level.

I am a mid-to-senior-level web application developer. I am struggling to land a new role, despite a total of 3.8 years of professional/employed experience in the industry and working on apps for multi-billion dollar companies. Zoetis, Diamler, and McCain Foods are amongst some of the large clients I worked on projects for.

I was recently a top candidate for a role with a base salary of $180k+. I was going to work on a e-commerce site to sell guns and weapons. Sadly, they decided to pursue an internal candidate.

Everything appears bleak, and I am so disturbed the way the job market is right now that I hibernated my linkedin so I don't have to wallow in despair. Instead, I am focused on prepping and activism until the election season is over.