Hi I interviewed with sooooooooo many companies a year and a half ago for mobile dev roles. I focused on iOS development (swift), but landed a job as a react native dev last. The role shifted to more of a database admin role tbh, since the company hired a buncha react native devs who didn’t want to touch databases and I wasn’t a scaredy-cat. I was fine with it and figured out how object relational management tools worked between sql and typescript. However, I got feedback I was moving to slow.. ya know— fair. They’re entitled to that opinion, and I have lots to say about that, but I don’t want to pollute my future with my past in this post if I can. I’m now confused though with what I should even be targeting. I used to have full remote making $100k on w2 with healthcare. I get recruiters every day for developer roles onsite, but the pay is usually right around $50/hr. Which isn’t enticing and I have a lot of money saved with no housing costs to be picky. I get offers for “user research roles” that are full remote from Microsoft pretty often lately but I don’t want to do user research I want to build, and then deloitte hits me up once ever other month for remote mobile dev roles for healthcare clients in GA— and the ghost me every time I send my resume lol, the state of MI will pay me $70-100/hr to work onsite in lansing in the government call centers but that sounds like absolutely purgatory, the auto co’s used to hit me up for $60-90/hr to work full remote on their lil app’s— but the uaw seems to be messing them up, I could get a job at Tesla/apple I think but idk for how much and how much I’d want to move to Cali. I’ve had so many apple recruiters via tata consulting hit me up, but they always pay SO dirt cheap?? Citi, jpmc, and Wells Fargo all are offering the same wages they were 3 years ago and demanding onsite in awful cities like nothing has changed. Uhhhg fidelity recruiter hmu yesterday for $65/hr iOS dev role if i show up one week a month on-site. But they ghosted me, that doesn’t sound bad though? Sorry this is so much word vomit, and if u just have anything to say about all this I could use some grounding since I’m very clearly spiraling 🫶🫶
are you currently remote?
I was up until 2 days ago when I lost my job