Am I the only one?

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.

Whenever I start (or forced to) interviewing I feel that I'm never going to find another job. Is this something I feel or there are people like me in this world?

Hey fellow devs, I'm a software engineer and I'm getting tired of the disconnect between the skills recruiters expect and the skills actually required for the job. In my daily work, I solve problems that are mostly straightforward and don't require extreme problem-solving skills. But whenever I apply for a new role or get approached by recruiters, they always ask for "expert-level" problem-solving abilities, even when the product or service doesn't seem to demand it. It feels like they're looking for someone to solve world hunger, when in reality, the job is more about maintaining and improving existing systems. Has anyone else experienced this? Am I just being too salty, or is this a real phenomenon? Share your thoughts fellow devs.

Does this happen to you'll also, where you forget name/keyword and then it take allot of mental pushing/effort to get back it to your mind. And the you think am I having a problem? is it something that happens to me only or others also? Is it natural?

I have many friends who are into IT and Tech(read again Tech not IT). Whenever I am speaking to the IT folks and understand their aspirations I always find that they have this strange thing mentioned every now and then i.e. Going to the Clients location(all overseas) for a couple of months and coming back or extending for a longer duration say a few years and purchasing a house/flat back in India. I don't understand how going to the client's location(even if it's on Mars) and earning $$$ can be life's ultimate goal. What am I missing here? I am not able to understand since I have always believed that life's ultimate goal would be always bigger for people(achievable/non achievable are different things). Does working in IT make people so myopic that they are destined to think in the straight line process and wait for that token(at least what I have heard is that it's some weird selection they do to select and send you abroad on the projects). May be this thought process makes most of the crowd stick to the systems for years and decades at work. Is it considered that bigger of an achievement OR Is it a way to make people stick around for longer duration ? What am I missing here ? How can life goals be so small ?

Recently seeing alot many posts on LinkedIn about companies and startups are hiring interns in large numbers for core functions like tech, product, biz etc. Am I the only one who is thinking that companies simply want to get the work done using these interns and avoiding hiring full time employees? Signs of not to good days. Also winter internships were not these common or were they? 🫤