You're right, I have a difficult time trying to empathize with this guy. Because my own emotional alarm bells would have been going off much, much earlier, back when he was failing to make any serious plan for how he was going to earn a living. When I put myself in his shoes, there's no way I see myself doing what he's doing. His pain is self-inflicted.
There are a hundred useful paths he could be taking to learn marketable skills. And yet he managed to write this whole essay without mentioning one.
This isn't just tech industry bias speaking. He could go to one of the natural gas boom towns and easily find work. They're having a major labor shortage, so wages are good. He could learn carpentry, or plumbing, or any number of things. Instead he keeps sending out futile resumes.
He's limited by his own faulty self-image. He sees himself in a suit, wielding power, but he doesn't see himself actually doing anything that produces value. That's his problem.
There are a hundred useful paths he could be taking to learn marketable skills. And yet he managed to write this whole essay without mentioning one.
This isn't just tech industry bias speaking. He could go to one of the natural gas boom towns and easily find work. They're having a major labor shortage, so wages are good. He could learn carpentry, or plumbing, or any number of things. Instead he keeps sending out futile resumes.
He's limited by his own faulty self-image. He sees himself in a suit, wielding power, but he doesn't see himself actually doing anything that produces value. That's his problem.