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2026 Q1
I took a year break and I can't get job anymore
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I feel like I made the biggest mistake of my life. I was laid off at the end of 2024 with a nice severance package, my mental health was very bad and I decided to take a few months to recover. Now I f
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I feel like I made the biggest mistake of my life. I was laid off at the end of 2024 with a nice severance package, my mental health was very bad and I decided to take a few months to recover. Now I find myself in 2026 unable to find any work. The few interviews I managed to get went badly because they always want someone a bit more experienced than I am. My biggest problem is that I don't have consistent experience. I have a year in a web development internship, two years in SAP development as an intern, junior and then mid, and two years in Salesforce development as junior then mid. I don't have any certifications worth mentioning, as I didn't prioritize them when I should have. I only have two technical school degrees in web and multiplatform app development, which in 2026 might as well be useless with the rise of AI. I haven't finished my CS degree because I don't have a family to support me economically. I don't know what to do. I don't want to earn millions, just a small salary to keep on living. I don't have unemployment benefits anymore and my savings can only sustain me for so long. I'm still struggling mentally, but I need to work. I don't know what to do. I'm thinking about getting the Salesforce Admin I and II certifications and the developer ones, but I don't have the time or money to get them all right now. I'm in Spain if any of this matters.
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