I graduated in 2009 in the middle of the Great Recession. I lived in a basement after graduation and did odd jobs for 9 months while learning how to build web apps. Then I took a job teaching English in South Korea.
After I got back from Korea 2 years later I faced a similar situation. Be flexible, take odd jobs, don't be afraid to work in the trades and use your free time to build durable economic skills for a job that you really want. Conditions will change (and they do so unevenly throughout the economy).
Get by and get ready. They can't repossess your brain. If you're from a financially unstable background - live cheap and be creative until you've built the stability you want.
Sentera builds an in-season field analysis platform called FieldAgent®. Growers, agronomists, seed retailers, and supply chain managers use the FieldAgent® platform to understand the story of a field from planting to harvest. Working for Sentera means tackling some of the most advanced problems in computing to improve the sustainability and efficiency of the food supply. We’re not selling ads or building marketing tools. We work at ground level and need people ready to get their hands dirty.
We just raised a 25m series C and we're hiring engineers to help us define and scale the platform. Our tech stack is Ruby on Rails (heavy use of graphql-ruby), React, and lots of Python and Node microservices.
I love this site. I went through every lesson like 6 months ago because, although I could type prose very quickly, I had not mastered the programmer typing that it takes to quickly experiment on the unix shell or hit opening braces and parens with consistency.
Although typing certainly isn't a big development bottleneck, being able to type fast lowers your overall cognitive load and lets you stay in the problem domain you're working on.
It's not like loud noises are a programming bottleneck either -- but it's certainly nice to eliminate a nuisance.