No One Hires Jr Devs So I Made A Game

"Nobody is hiring high school chemistry teachers any more so I made my own meth lab empire."

nobody hires sr. dev so I made a hello world app

Nobody hires nuclear engineers under 45 so I made a bomb.

This sounds very familiar. I spent 6 months looking for a job after recently getting laid off. After about 60 rejections I decided to make a game. I started by trying to make a multiplayer RTS and spent about 3 months working on that and gave up after realizing it would take me too long to finish so I changed focus. I decided to focus on making smaller sized local/multiplayer games. I made 3 games in the last 3 months. Each game uses split-screen and supports up to 4 players. So now it's a year later I still don't have a job, but at least I made some games.

Welp, time to make a todo app in Unreal Engine 5 with jiggle physics

"If you have a remotely competent interviewer..." Welp... We're screwed...

I counted 8 rejections. Those are rookie numbers.

nobody hires principal engineer so I made a OS

"but it does not mean our story ends here" is such a beautiful phrase. Props to HR who came up with it.

Chat: Why is a game a good idea? Prime: Because it's hard and a lot of work Chat: You make it sound easy