The Job Market Won't Recover. What Are Your Options?

I need to tell you something nobody wants to hear.

The job market isn't going to recover. Not back to the way it was. Not in time to save most of us.

I know that sounds dramatic. I know you're probably thinking "he's being negative" or "it can't be that bad." But I've spent the last four months sending out 450+ job applications. I've watched the numbers. I've read the forecasts. I've talked to people in the same nightmare.

I've gotten hundreds of emails and read comments on Medium and LinkedIn from people who have been reading my articles. They all feel the same crunch, are in the same boat.

And the data is clear: we're not in a temporary slowdown. We're in a fundamental transformation. And most of us are on the wrong side of it.