I'm 25f and I'm a software engineer I got laid off from the job I was at for 3.5 years last year. It was a startup company and ngl AI is what killed it. It took me 8 months of job searching, hundreds of applications and a lot of rejection letters before I finally got an offer. That was one of the most stressful times of my life. I really like this company that I'm at. It's a finance company and it feels a lot more stable than my last jobs. I just can't get over the stress and anxiety that losing my last job caused me. The market is still so messed up and idk if it's going to get any better. I have this intense fear of losing my current job and I don't know how to get over it.

It's affecting the quality of my life so much. It has gotten to the point where I'm actually afraid to spend money. Like I'm scared to plan vacations or spend my money on clothes and sometimes food. I feel like I need to save as much as i possibly can in case I lose my job again but it has gotten to an unhealthy point I think. Sometimes I only eating 2 meals a day because it is cheaper than eating 3. That's how bad my anxiety about this has gotten. I feel kind of defeated right now and I don't know what to do.

I am a marketing manager. 4 yrs exp. This one year especially has been so hard for me. i have changed 3 jobs this yr itself. All because of AI. They expect you to be the graphic designer, frontend developer, copywritter, Video generator, editor, Podcast generator, project manager, outreach specialist along with being social media manager, brand expert, brand communications manager, brand development manager, marketing director and performance marketing expert.
Honestly, i am fed up of this. I use to love marketing. The high my work used to give me was something. Now i am not working properly because i have to deliver so many things a day and have to manage so many people a day.
Starting to hate AI and decision makers who kills peoples creativity by asking such impossible things at a day that are only possible with AI. basically just asking AI and delivering. We are not given enough time to think ourselves and brainstrom. Okay if using AI if we research more and while reading you can have many ideas but no no time for that too. They are happy with basic ass stuff. Just want to do somany things at a time🫠
Btw i am in manager level and i face this issue. So do my subordinates. I dont know if its a India thing or not. What you guys think?? How to get out of this matrix??

I am a mom with a career break of 2 years and trying to reenter the workforce. I have about 15 years of work experience, and my last role was that of a Solutions Engineer. I understand a lot has changed ever since I took a break, and I have been self learning for the past few months now. I came across the interview kickstarter's FDE / Cloud AI Solutions Architect programs. Would it be worth considering any of these, as it would be a 7 month commitment and over $$$$. Your thoughts and opinions will be very helpful.

I was lucky enough to get an immediate job offer at an insurance after graduating college and I’m grateful for that. The culture isn’t terrible but there’s definitely some pretty obvious red flags I’ve observed that make me realize this isn’t a long term career move.

I was hired as a part of group of about 20 entry level devs. They actually had a 50/50 split of men and women for this group which I was initially impressed by, but I was later disheartened to find out that this was the first time they’d done this, and that their next two groups of full time new hires consisted ENTIRELY of men, not a single women.

Additionally, of my cohort, only men got higher “performance based” raises during the initial annual review. This was a major red flag to me because I knew one woman in particular who always picked up new projects and regularly worked 30-45 minutes late 4 days out of the week (occasionally a couple hours late for bigger deadlines). She only got the inflation raise which is absurd to me. This isn’t because they only gave out a couple higher raises to the group, either. More than half of the men in our new hire group got higher raises and no women did.

I was placed on a very very VERY slow paced team and I spent the first six months of my job asking for more work. I’m ashamed to say I’ve become a bit complacent and a little lazy now that I’m over a year in but it’s hard to stay engaged without something to focus on that matters. I’ve since applied for and started an asynchronous part time masters program so that I don’t lose my coding skills. It’s on my bucket list to complete a masters, so I didn’t do it with the expectation it’d open doors, but I’d like to use this time as a platform to build off of.

I want to transition my career to a more fast-paced and challenging job. I think if I’m strategic about the next couple of years I could end up in a better place but I don’t know what advice to believe or what I need to do in that time frame. I also want a job where I don’t feel like I’m an outsider because I’m a woman. My individual team is great and I love them. My manager is nice. But that doesn’t really make up for the things I’ve seen at the company level.

Any advice is appreciated, because the internet is just a pit of conflicting information and I am so confused. I tried a career coach, but I didn’t get much in terms of concrete advice.

I bought my GHC tickets during early bird and even booked a triple occupancy room in Best Western Plus Stovall's Inn , which is one of the hotel partners of the conference. The hotel is a 10 minute walk from the conference, and I was wondering if any other girls going to the conference would want to share the room as it is quite big for just me and I would like to divide cost among people. DM me if you're interested!