As none of you know, I’m half in the market for a new gig. Not that my current gig is terrible but…OK it’s terrible but more than that, I’m just ready for a change.
To that end I got a subscription to LinkedIn Premium, because why not, I don’t find phones or gadgets interesting anymore, so I gotta spend my undisposable income on something.
Here’s what I have found after a couple of months of using LinkedIn Premium.
1. There’s this dude called Oleg Vishnepolsky and I’m not sure if he’s real. But he’s dominating my feed and I’m fascinated by it.
2. When I signed up for LinkedIn Premium, I had a 30-day trial period. I got a lot of engagement for very little effort. I spruced up my profile, said that I was open to recruiters and actually got some hits. Nothing great but considering that I put zero effort in, I thought wow, this might actually be value for money. Then my 30 days expired, I got billed, and…crickets.
3. #2 is just an observation. Obviously LinkedIn is a tool, and you get out of it what you put into it, but…I’m not sure that LinkedIn is for old farts like me.
4. Yeah this Oleg dude. He is an “Influencer” which brings me to my other point – LinkedIn is just another dopamine farm, a novel feed that is unreloadable and keeps presenting you with new bullshit, especially from influencers like the aforementioned Oleg. His profile says he’s a CTO somewhere but he seems to literally spend his entire life posting on LinkedIn. That’s nice but doesn’t he have CTO shit to do? Entry-level kids are constantly posting their resumes with an #Oleg hashtag and he likes and comments, apparently so 250,000 recruiters will see it. I mean, great but okay.
Anyway I’m going to stick with it. At least until next March when my term is up, or until I get a new job, which certainly could happen. But I am thinking that if I do get a job, it’ll have to be through that most horrifying of methods…
…actual human interaction.
Shudder.