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The European tech job market is... not great. You're not alone in this issue, it doesn't have to do with you, companies are extremely picky.

Best advice I can give is to stop applying for vacancies and start networking.

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I'm not even in European market. I'm in a clown job market of a fringe European state.

Define "clown market."

Greece ithink they said

Small countries in the EU tend to have extremely niche job markets in tech, largely because the choice is either very specialised work or generic IT services (not dev). Developers usually have a bad time of it.

I sympathize, and I think this is a bigger problem than the skills/experience/age issues. I'd do what I can to either move to a more dynamic place, or get a remote job for a US company. I know it's hard, but it's better than investing two years to become a pro in a different stack - and still be stuck in the same socioeconomic trap.

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