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I've been buying gold over the years, converting any piece of paper I have into gold.

In the US... what if you own gold outside of the US?

Assuming the USD is running the world, yes, it would be the end. But it's not the case. Lehman brothers was 158 years old when it disapeared in 2008 in a blink of an eye. You should never say never.

Gold survived the last 1000 years, it's the safest asset you can own in life.

600k (USD) in gold. The only currency that survived 1000 years. You can't print out gold so no matter what the FED does, it won't disappear anytime soon. I'm a Software Engineer in my 30's.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Last time I switched jobs was 2.5 years ago. My domain is pretty stable in terms of technologies, I'm up to date.

I had a little bit of everything, mostly linkedin. My "conversion rate" is actually pretty good, I usually get contacted when I apply. I made it to several on-sites even though I failed at a couple of technical phone screens at the very first stage. I'd say I nailed about %50 of my all interviews. Sometimes I'd "score" %100 at a tech interview, leaving plenty of room for me to ask a lot of meaningful questions (well prepared in advanced) to my interviewers. I mean, when you nail their coding questions, answer all their technical design questions and describe your past projects in details, what else do they need? I stay pretty humble usually and try not to come up too cocky.

I feel somehow confident about all the on-sites I had and usually got a good feedback right away (during the actual interview). Though, as I said, none of them led to an offer which is pretty amazing.

Also, I went through 2 jobs from 2 friend referrals. Failed on both. I also noticed that companies are super messy sometimes. I would apply for a position and in the middle of the process they would switch me to another position thinking it would be a better fit for me. I end-up talking to a new set of people (WTF??) who haven't heard about me nor selected my application in the first place. I feel like a bag of potatoes.. So it puts me in a weird situation where they're like "well, let's talk to him at least see what's up" without really carrying too much since they're already talking to a bunch of candidates. At the end they email me saying I'm not a great fit. Like... dude...

I'm a bit speechless right now to be honest...