My company sold off the factories and product lines I was responsible for, thus eliminating my role about 8 weeks back. I’ve applied to about 25 jobs so far. 2-3 actually told me the job was filled, or I wasn’t right for it. 1 contacted me for a phone screen with HR. All the others have been no contact at all....many of which reposted the same roles within a week or so.
I just keep applying knowing that a lot of them are fake and use them to show my job search activity for my weekly unemployment applications.
In the meantime I’m day trading stocks and making about the same as I did working full time (so far)....though taxes will be a larger % due to the higher rate on short term capital gains. I’m taking most of the profit and rolling it into short term T-Bills (using ETF symbol BIL that pays a monthly dividend) at over 5%. Goal is to replace 1/2 my salary by year end with dividend income...so far have achieved 3% of my goal in 6 weeks.
Stop working for companies, start your own. No DEI.