You’re never going to get hired as a UX designer
I know you’ve seen the articles, the videos, the tweets. Six figures in six months! Your gangplank into tech, no experience required. Learn on YouTube, apply online, humblebrag at Thanksgiving dinner this year about your stock options, your company computer, your beanbag chairs and office laundromat. It’s easy, right? How hard can it be.
Download Figma, hop to Reddit. Ask about how to break into the UX industry. Post removed? They hate newbies. Hop to Medium. Read an article about how someone quit their job as a Canadian tree planter and started making $12,000 a month as a UX designer. You start to worry. You preemptively check your brand new six figure tax bracket. Damn, that’s high. You check mortgage rates, start home shopping in San Francisco. After all, it’ll only be six months. What will mortgage rates be like? Maybe you should contact a realtor in the Bay Area. How much for a new car? A Lexus sounds nice but that red leather interior is too much. Time to settle for a Tesla.
You’ve been lied to. Do you want to make six figures in six months? Get a CDL and become an over the road truck driver. It’s a job that doesn’t leave you posting on LinkedIn about how shocked yet resilient you are in 4 months when your angel-funded startup can’t raise a Series G and lays off 30% of their 10,000 strong workforce.