As a recently laid off software engineer with 15+ years of hard earned experience, who was blissfully working on bleeding edge tech, on the verge of completing a glorious product, everyone from both parties, DOGE, Elon, etc. need wrap this sh*t up, quick, fast, and in a hurry. As a person of color, it's been a seemingly futile effort to …
As a recently laid off software engineer with 15+ years of hard earned experience, who was blissfully working on bleeding edge tech, on the verge of completing a glorious product, everyone from both parties, DOGE, Elon, etc. need wrap this sh*t up, quick, fast, and in a hurry. As a person of color, it's been a seemingly futile effort to find a new gig in the midst of the rollback of the idiotic "DEI all the things" policy. This has been further exacerbated by the deluge of gov employees hitting the job market after being laid off. Now, the agony is being prolonged by this DOGE and pony show on the Hill, which I probably can't even get tickets to!
I'm so sorry you are in the middle of all the mess, Luffy. My oldest son went thru similar not long ago. He's not a man of color, still, hard for anyone and was beginning to lose faith. Took 6 mo. and he's now with a company out of Canada. So That's going to be interesting. He really likes his new company/job/position, so don't despair. I will be praying for both of you. You to find 1 and him to keep 1. This government is a big ship with a large turn radius. Gonna take time!!
A suggestion, if you are up for it. Go to your local library and see if anyone can help you on an update to your resume. Anymore, almost all are done online and computers sift thru them 1st looking for key words. If you don't use those key words, your resume can get kicked out almost immediately. I hope that helps. Know there are people out here thinking of your circumstances and wanting the best for you. Good luck!
Can you get some venture capitalists to fund the completion of your product? Or would it be considered the IP of your former employer?
This DOGE stuff IS going as quickly as possible, given all the lawfare and corrupt obstruction by the Permanent Bureaucracy. AI moves to analyze very quickly, and the bad guys don't seem to have any competing tech to circumvent DOGE. So they have to take it out. It's not going to move on your timetable.
This IS for the entire country, you know, not just you. And we are in the teeth of a life-or-death budget battle.
Uh, the product was going to be open sourced eventually. It is IP, but since I was the sole contributor of roughly 48k lines of code, I could almost rewrite it from memory. It's still pretty novel tech. Getting capitalized may be an option, but now we're talking full blown startup. Doable, but I would also like to be present as a father for my two young girls and not some dude that occupies a room in the house all day...
As a recently laid off software engineer with 15+ years of hard earned experience, who was blissfully working on bleeding edge tech, on the verge of completing a glorious product, everyone from both parties, DOGE, Elon, etc. need wrap this sh*t up, quick, fast, and in a hurry. As a person of color, it's been a seemingly futile effort to find a new gig in the midst of the rollback of the idiotic "DEI all the things" policy. This has been further exacerbated by the deluge of gov employees hitting the job market after being laid off. Now, the agony is being prolonged by this DOGE and pony show on the Hill, which I probably can't even get tickets to!
Sh*t, or get off the pot...
I'm so sorry you are in the middle of all the mess, Luffy. My oldest son went thru similar not long ago. He's not a man of color, still, hard for anyone and was beginning to lose faith. Took 6 mo. and he's now with a company out of Canada. So That's going to be interesting. He really likes his new company/job/position, so don't despair. I will be praying for both of you. You to find 1 and him to keep 1. This government is a big ship with a large turn radius. Gonna take time!!
A suggestion, if you are up for it. Go to your local library and see if anyone can help you on an update to your resume. Anymore, almost all are done online and computers sift thru them 1st looking for key words. If you don't use those key words, your resume can get kicked out almost immediately. I hope that helps. Know there are people out here thinking of your circumstances and wanting the best for you. Good luck!
The company I was laid off from was based out of Canada. 4.3 years, and I got dropped with no severance...
Thanks for the suggestion on getting a resume review at the library. That actually makes a ton of sense!
Can you get some venture capitalists to fund the completion of your product? Or would it be considered the IP of your former employer?
This DOGE stuff IS going as quickly as possible, given all the lawfare and corrupt obstruction by the Permanent Bureaucracy. AI moves to analyze very quickly, and the bad guys don't seem to have any competing tech to circumvent DOGE. So they have to take it out. It's not going to move on your timetable.
This IS for the entire country, you know, not just you. And we are in the teeth of a life-or-death budget battle.
Uh, the product was going to be open sourced eventually. It is IP, but since I was the sole contributor of roughly 48k lines of code, I could almost rewrite it from memory. It's still pretty novel tech. Getting capitalized may be an option, but now we're talking full blown startup. Doable, but I would also like to be present as a father for my two young girls and not some dude that occupies a room in the house all day...
Your girls need their dad, for sure.