@duckWit As for those books, I'll add those to my reading list and see what I can gleen out of them.

@duckWit Thanks for the insight and I get that pickiness. It just that it seemed that they wouldn't be as picky due to them having a more specialized role, which would mean slightly less hats to wear.

As for my current role, it's more generalized and I do wear quite a few hats, even though the company originated in 2007. The latest rejection was the latest attempt to try to become more specialized. I guess the problem I'm running into could be that I am not able to find those more junior type of roles that I can excel in. I haven't been able to figure out how people find those roles yet. All I'm seeing in my area is a overabundance of senior roles, which I am definitely not of that caliber yet.

@ceceliacreates The only real feedback I got was from Google of all places. "I didn't finish the problem fast enough", even when I worked pretty well in the pair programming problem and finished well in the 45 min allotted time to where I was able to talk with the interviewer for a bit afterwards.

Other than that just the generic "Thanks for applying...." Message.

I am currently still working but like I said earlier, it really is time for me to go, especially since I am not improving my skills at my current job at all. The only improvements I get are on my own time with the projects that I do have. I've done that at meetups. But that didn't help me too much either since I was only dealing with newbies, which is fine, but I ain't talking to someone that could get me in and I keep iterating on the basics. Side business, could maybe work but I'll need to find clients.

I do appreciate the support though. Just got to sleep this off I guess and see what happens tomorrow.

@jennytengsonM Thanks, been trudging along. Hopefully I see light at the end of the tunnel.

@NoToJavaScript I do have 5 going on 6 years of experience. However every shop has a different setup with what tech package they work with. It pretty much seems like they only want to hire former employees instead of a new guy.

I get the delivery expectation but for me to either be a former employee or miraculously work in a almost identical shop as them is something else. I can deliver, but as with working with any new place, there are things that are way different between orgs.

@torbuntu Yeah I'm starting to get to that point where Android development will probably just end up as a hobby of mine instead of doing it full time professionally.

I know the feeling, been trying to leave for better part of 2 years with no luck.

@Lythenas Probably, I mean had I known that was the goal I would've tuned myself up to target that.

@zemaitis Tried that, that's the response I got.

"Totally not a sponsored opinion."

And your different footers

Vim is the way to go for me. Although Apple's scrolling through the texts in Vim is very painful.

Lol It's more common than you think. There's enough people out there that think of mobile as some kind of weird voodoo.

Thought it was already support, I guess TIL.

Chromium, Steam, Discord, Thunderbird, QBittorrent.

@iaan Not to mention server outages to download the game on launch day.

Tried, either my internet is garbage or there are other factors in their servers that cause massive lag for me.

Just use UBlock Origin, or Pi-Hole.

Also, youtube-dl is a God send to aquire albums. Don't worry about space, downloading off of YouTube produces small files and storage is dirt cheap now a days.