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在我青少年时期，我对编程产生了浓厚的兴趣。最初是因为我为一款游戏编写修改脚本，这让我能够创造出我梦寐以求的东西，写代码的过程真是令人愉悦！到了大学时期，我选择了计算机科学，因为我认为一辈子写代码会像青少年时期那样酷。在大学的某个时刻，确实是这样的！我在课堂上表现出色，愉快地为项目编写代码，构思独特的小工具和创意。毕业后，我遇到了瓶颈。我发现我所在的国家，程序员的工作机会非常有限，而我所在的城市几乎没有。我搜索了几个月，最终只能接受一个辅导员的职位。我做了两年的辅导员，然后，凭借运气，我找到了一个带薪实习机会，申请后获得了这个职位。我认为我能获得这个实习机会是因为薪水很低——基本上是剥削劳动——但在我国家的标准下，这个薪水算是不错的。我相信，建立我的声誉、网络和在一家美国初创公司工作的经验，比薪水更有价值。我作为实习生工作了六个月，然后转为初级职位，做全栈开发。我又在初级职位上工作了八个月，但那家初创公司未能获得资金支持，因此我再次失业。我的前雇主推荐我去另一家初创公司，我在那里作为唯一的前端开发人员工作，薪水不错，工作也很好，但那家初创公司同样未能获得资金支持，我被解雇了。现在，我失业了。我在LinkedIn、HackerNews的每月“谁在招聘”帖子上申请了数百甚至数千个职位，但没有任何结果。我现在面临着生存危机，所在地区的工作几乎不存在，即使碰到一个职位，薪水也远低于我的标准；这根本不值得我去努力。因此，我的目标是寻找国外的合同职位和完全远程的工作，老实说，我不知道这个目标现在有多可行。由于全球市场的饱和，我甚至在考虑将注意力转移离开软件开发。如果你是我，你会怎么做？我希望能得到真实、诚恳和深思熟虑的反馈。

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During my teen years, I was crazy interested in programming. I got interested because I used to script mods for a game, it helped me create things I was dreaming of, and oh boy, it was a pleasure to write code!Forward to my university years, I got into computer science because I thought writing code for the rest of my life would be as cool as it was in my teen years. For a moment, during my university years, it was! I aced my classes and was happily writing code for projects and coming up with unique little tools and ideas to build.After graduation, I hit a brick wall. I found out there are very few jobs for programmers in my country, and almost none in my city. I searched for months, but in the end, I settled for a tutoring role. I worked as a tutor for two years, and then, just with sheer luck, I found a paid internship, applied, and was offered the position. I think I got offered the internship because the pay was low—it was basically slave labor—but it was decent by my country’s standards. I believed that building my reputation, network, and experience working with a US-based startup was worth more than the pay.I worked as an intern for 6 months, then moved to a Jr. Role, doing full-stack work. I worked as a Jr for 8 more months, then the startup failed to secure funding. So, again, I was unemployed.I got referred to a different startup by my old employer, started working there as the only frontend developer, the pay was good, and the work was good, but that startup also failed to secure funding, and I was let go.Now, I am unemployed. I applied to hundreds, if not thousands, of openings on LinkedIn, HackerNews’ monthly “Who is Hiring” threads, but got nothing.I am now in an existential crisis, local work where I live is almost non-existent, and even if I do come across an opening, the pay is not even decent by my standards; it simply is not worth the effort. So, my goal is to find contract roles and fully remote roles abroad, and honestly, I don’t know how viable that goal is now.I am even thinking of shifting my focus away from software development due to the market saturation worldwide.What would you do if you were me? I’m looking for real, honest, and thoughtful feedback.

问HN：我该如何克服我的存在危机？