Going to lose my current, non software development job due to replacement (not by AI, but by other humans), and I have a quite limited number of skills. I especially bad with waking up early, so most “local” (requires 2 hours of travel) factory jobs are out.
I don’t have a portfolio of great companies I worked at, nor with games I worked on, nor with websites. I also live far away from job opportunities that are relevant for me.
I’m personally more afraid of my mother, who believes, Hungary has easy to access “DEI grants”, so she sent me all places for an “official autism diagnosis” (including an asylum, in the middle of a pandemic), so employers will be lining up for me with all kind of job opportunities, because she read that on a nazi news site. Reality is ableism is so rampant I get called slurs at worst, and otherwise I have to deal with conspiracy theories aimed at me straight out of Forrest Gump. She wants me to apply to all unqualified positions I can, because she read that as a suggestion online.
There are a ton of organizations that run their own IT that aren’t selling or distributing software that can be overlooked for a career building and maintaining software. Banking, sports leagues, utilities, logistics, grocery & restaurant chains, etc. A lot of small businesses also can’t do it themselves or hire a full time staff for it so they hire it out to a part time contractor that covers multiple smaller orgs in an area. My first job that included programming was 1/3 software dev, 1/3 IT support, and 1/3 running a print shop in a warehouse.