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Have you lost your UX Design job this year?
If so, you aren’t alone.
With 60,000 major tech jobs having been cut in 2024 alone and differing estimates of how long it takes (on average) for someone to find a new job — about 8 months or 220 job applications according to pathrise — it’s no wonder that the job search is beginning to feel like a war of attrition — what will happen first, finding a new job in UX or starvation?
Has it always been this hard to stay relevant?
My story is typical for those who have gotten into the UX field recently. After graduating from my Master’s degree at the tail-end of the Covid Era in 2022, I found a job as a UX Designer at a small agency here in the Bay Area.
The agency had experienced a downturn during Covid and was seeing a re-surence of clientele that necessitated hiring some fresh blood.
However, in May of 2024, I was laid off — leading me here, about 5 months into the search for a new job.
Now that I am out of school, I realized how difficult it is as a post-graduate to continue your education. In an educational institution…
