They've created artificial scarcity through overhiring and bullshit layoffs. The total pool of workers is shrinking thanks to the pandemic and we still haven't seen the full impact of that. Future COVID waves will shrink it further. The employers are massively fucking up right now in thinking they have the upper hand. They're just igniting the kindling for tech unions, which they _really_ won't like.

Also, India didn't replace you in the 90's and AI isn't replacing you now.

I don't know. I just got hired on somewhere using this criteria, and I leave behind a remote-only position that I excelled in for the past four years. And I excelled in several more remote-only positions before that one.

I don't have a degree or any certifications either, due to the same disability that prevents me from going into an office.

It is an employers' market and the employers that create arbitrary barriers of entry for talent will find themselves recruiting from a pool of desperate talent, which may be by design because desperate talent also costs less.

However, I'm not desperate and the managers that hire me find out why that is pretty quickly.

> I don't have a degree or any certifications either, due to the same disability that prevents me from going into an office.

What experience do you have that is so in demand? Or is the disability attractive to employers because of DEI reasons?

I've wondered about the DEI thing, but there's no way to know really. Nobody is going to tell me if that was considered. I suspect not, though.

I find that specific experience doesn't really matter because every job I've gotten has been a complete reset stack wise.

I have a lot of varied experience, but I think what sets me apart is that tech is actually fun for me. My work/life balance naturally tilts towards work. I'm not just looking to climb a ladder, get more money, or protect my job by making myself irreplaceable. By that, I mean that I document everything I do like I'm going to die tomorrow, and like I care about the DX of whomever takes over my role.

I also don't care if I look dumb. I ask dumb questions and I don't try to hide that I'm human. I've done this my entire life, and it's really paid off. I learn more quickly than my peers most of the time, and this is exactly why -- I lean into the impostor syndrome and own it.

Wouldn’t they though? We’ll see how this attitude shapes up in a year I guess.