I Got A Job. Nobody Told me.

So I stayed unemployed

The Secret Developer
3 min readDec 12, 2023
Photo by Mojtaba Ravanbakhsh on Unsplash

Things haven’t always been easy for The Secret Developer, having experienced layoffs and periods of unemployment in their software development career.

A few years ago something surprising happened. Something they’d been wishing about for months. An interview.

The Secret Developer gets their chance

The Secret Developer had what they wished for. The opportunity to compete for a job.

”I hope that you haven’t needed to have a period of unemployment recently. It can be nerve-wracking stuff as you realize that you don’t have the money to be able to make the rent. It can take some time to get a job and it can be hair raising stuff.

After a couple of months of unemployment I had the chance to go for an interview for a job. At a multinational fitness firm. I got the information `The interview will be approximately 2 hours- a written test followed by discussion.` and couldn’t even get a job…

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The Secret Developer

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