I've unblocked and unmuted you just now. Life is too short.

Staffing agencies have no power. Find a company that looks interesting, figure out who you'd be working for at that company, and appeal to them directly. It's been 10+ years since I was on the job market (in the land of TPS reports, anyway) but the statistic put forth at the time was that roughly 5% of jobs are filled by something other than referral.

Introduce yourself to people who aren't hiring. Be friendly and attentive. somebody will eventually give you a conduit to a job that hasn't been advertised yet.

Good luck.

For my 38th birthday, I promised myself I'd get to buy a longboard if I was under 200 lbs.

I'm half a pound away from being under 190 for my 40th.

Kind of offsets the recent discovery that veen was born after I graduated from high school.

It's funny. Idiot teenagers are definitely ruining Reddit. 'round here? We have a surprising number of erudite, well-spoken and interesting people who are half my age or less. I think that's a promising development - proof that idiots do as idiots do and that really, age has fuckall to do with it.