Can't Find Good Jobs To Apply To

I'm from Palm Desert, CA. Mainly into computer vision and robotics, but I also do web dev (aka soy dev) stuff for profitability in between semesters. React, Svelte, WebAssembly, Flutter, Flask. I worked on using Nvidia Jetson and Intel Movidius for mobile robotics in a research lab at uni. I did a controls research project over the summer of my Sophomore year in Cambridge at MIT. (Mostly because I was also accepted to do MITES at MIT in highschool and I worked with the prof). I worked for IBM on the cloud and doing some R&D for my first year as a full time dev out of college. Originally I was recruited to some NLP but it was a dupe and instead they had me doing k8s and doing some consensus algorithms for the Linux Foundation which was not *too* bad. Getting TC 90k in Poughkeepsie. It was alright, but our contract got ended during the pandemic. I moved in with my parents who had moved to Illinois. Due to one of my parents being ill I wanted to be near them and found a job at John Deere non-contract. It was also supposed to be in conjunction with a startup called Blue River but I guess some manafer there had some problem with it and now I manage some custom Spring Framework wrapper they had contracted out a decade ago but have never maintained it took me basically the whole year to convince management we need to stop using it and DB2. They occasionally let me dabble with the robots, but I'm generally miserable and I took a pay cut down to TC $85k in Peoria, IL because I don't live where their HQ which is in some place called Rock Island. CAT a local company tried recruiting me last week but I don't like it they offered me only a $5k increase in TC and don't do any interesting ML or SaaS stuff. Phillips also reached out but their offer seemed bad. It was all Easy LC and multiple choice. Offer was TC $110k after I talked them up from $100k Kirkland, WA to work on some silly medical device I don't care about. No relocation. I'm looking to move back to my home state before it becomes freezing here again or to Seattle where my gf lives. I've done most of the LC Premium Amazon and Google questions over the last 3 years I do some for review here and again as well as a few medium and hard lc questions a month. I have the content of Grokking the system interview. I did cracking the coding interview in high school when I was all into Silicon Valley for some reason. I'm thinking maybe I should get back into that one. I had an interview for new grad google and microsoft but my recruiters ghosted me. Amazon sounds like hell and their AWS recruiters contact me relentlessly and failed an interview like 6 months ago. Startups also sort of seem hellish. I had something with Toyota Research through a prof but I guess they lost funding for the position. I failed FB because of just bad luck I guess. Waymo seems really cool but won't talk to me. Zoox told me I didn't have enough experience for any positions, my Tesla Autopilot recruiter left for another company. Google seemed pretty good. Microsoft seemed pretty good. I have friends from school in both but references don't stop recruiters from just straight up vanishing into the void I guess. I had the ones at Microsoft bother their hiring managers but they're in Xbox and I guess it didn't work out. At this point I'll take anything honestly just so long as I'm working on something with some quality and WLB isn't too bad. Dress codes that allow me to where jeans and T-shirts and/or inoffensive tropical style shirts would be cool perks. Being within 2 hours of a beach would also be pretty cool. Current TC: $85k #waymo #rivianautomotive #google #company #microsoft #startup #ibm #intel #intuit #adobe #recommendation #re2robotics