Is anyone else worried? Or even thinking?

We faced a really slow moving job market in Indian IT last financial year. I heard this year it will open some opportunities. It is almost the end of April and I am not getting any calls from the recruiters. FYI, I am a Java backend tech lead, Open for architect position as well. Having 9+ experience entirely in the same technology and in the digital banking domain. I am worried, will the market ever be back to normal like it was pre-covid? Even during lockdown, there was a lot of hiring. What's wrong now? Wars one after another, making uncertainty. I personally feel, during the WFH period they hired people from different cities and made them work together, which worked fine for WFH. Now they're forcing us to work with a team which is not in your office, not even in your city. Now, they don't need to hire people from the same city/location which makes their job easier. They just pick someone from the pool, internal recruitment etc. People are fearing job security so a very few are putting papers, resulting in no vacancies. The market is completely biased towards employers and we can't do anything about it. When will this end?

I feel at the pace AI is advancing, most of us will be unemployed. The uncertainty is making me anxious, any help appreciated :)

At the risk of sounding weak, this has become more and more rampant with me. It feels as if I am living someone's elses life. Somedays I just feel like living a life thats pointless. These are the days when I feel very prone to these emotional impulses of sudden "lonlinesss" (despite having few of the most amazing people in my life) or "emptiness" or "anti-gratitude/self-destruction". So much mental lethargy behing these useless chain of thoughts. Am I the only one? Have I lost it? Am I sensitive? Is it a bad thing? Am I overworked? Am I too critical about my thoughts? Man this is so confounding.

How are you planning to deal with upcoming GPT-4/5 impact? I am on a testing version through a company license and this thing is scary good. I don’t see companies hiring the way they used to anymore when half the engineers/designers/product people + GPT can do the same job. Are you anxious? Planning to switch to a country with better safety nets? Move fields with less automation and stress? Or not worried at all? :-)

I am a school passed out student. I want to learn mathematics as I want to make a career out of it (because I love mathematics and want to pursue a higher research level degree). Although at the same time my family is in a financial crisis from over a decade now and I know that the upcoming years are going to be more horrific if money does not gets pumped in! So for that reason I am on a drop since I have passed out (ITS MORE THAN A YEAR NOW) and has been learning trading and stock markets. However, my family keeps pushing me to pursue a career so as to be risk free in future (even if they understand that I am doing these things for them they want me to do things that will make me stand upon my feet) and also their primary sentiment is to drop this idea of markets and all (normal Indian family's behavior). Now since last few days, I have been highly tensed and deeply worried about the carrier I made. I am confused whether to drop the stock market practice and start the entrance preparation or to take things simultaneously. But I dont know the ways by which I can tackle all these stuffs going in my mind!

Publicis sapient is delaying their new employees to join office, whom they selected on - campus last year . Earlier they provided only letter of intent , now they are not providing offer letters.

Today, I posted comment on grapevine about how AI is different from industrial revolution, pc, mobile, internet revolution which created very high paying jobs. However grapeviners started ridiculing me. it’s weird it feels like most people both in and outside of ai aren’t able or unwilling to extrapolate the current level of technology even one iteration into the future and plan for it. I have been having these severe arguments with my peers who think that will never replace us. Like HOW CAN YOU BE SO SHORT SIGHTED. Just 3 months ago i was showing ai art and talking about how it is gonna replace artists, and one my peers just said "ai can't draw hands so it will never replace artists" like BRUH DONT YOU FUCKING SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE. Can't you see the rate at which it's progressing? How can you claim that it won't replace us in the future, they act like the ai is static and that it doesn't learn. It's so frustrating. Now when ai can't draw hands, they will just pick something else like "yea but it can't do this" like BRUH YOU SAID THE SAME SHIT A MONTH AGO. WHY CANT TOU SEE THAT ITS FUCKING EVOLVING. ARE YOU ALL BLIND??? They say ai is stupid and that our future will remain like our present. I mentioned an example of how a small group of artists were replaced by a company, and they just said "but that's just a small group of people" LIKE BROOOOOOOOOO YOU WERE SAYING THEY WOULDNT BE REPLACED AT ALL A FEW MONTHS AGO, CANT YOU SEE WHERE WE ARE HEADING? When i talk about this, they just accuse me, calling me an overthinker, and that is should spend my time doing something else. "If you like ai so much, then why don't you just marry it?" Where does this stupid thought process come from, why can't they see into the future, yes the tech sucks now but can't you see the rate at which it has been improving???

Can someone help me on my dilemma and what should I do and follow ? My head is bursting out of tension, and I am just going mad being scared about my future. So I(23M) am currently working in a big product based company, and it's office is located in hyderabad. With the recent RTO push, I will have to move there soon. The thing is, I don't want to to move to hyderabad. Many reasons to it. Firstly, I know no body in the city, like have just one friend in that city, and office peeps. Living alone like this is what I'm afraid of (I've never lived away from home). Secondly, I am a pure vegetarian, and hyderabad smells non-veg from road to road. Cafe's restaurants, that stinking non-veg everywhere. Lastly, my parents will be left alone here at my hometown, and they'll not prefer moving with me coz they'll become even more alone in an unknown city. I am thinking to change my job and get to Bangalore, where I do have more friends and family, and Bangalore doesn't stink as well (non-veg is present in cafe's and restaurants everywhere, but it's way much bearable). The last problem still remains. An added problem here is the current economy and recession (I know India has lesser chance of recession, but IT companies are based out of US, so layoff risk continues). I also have a plan to go for higher education, in India itself. But moving away is still an issue, with an added financial burden, as there will be no one earning. And I really feel that getting that second degree is necessary. I am supeeerrrr stressed on what should I do, and with each passing day and I'm able to do nothing, it's just stressing me out so much. Anybody who faced similar situations ? What did you do and how did you cope with it ?