After spending time in multiple career-related subreddits, one Reddit user had a realization that registered with people: Reddit sometimes makes the job market look worse than it really is.

“I’ve been trying to switch careers recently and joined a bunch of subreddits — tech, healthcare, education, engineering, etc.,” the original poster wrote. “And in every single one, it’s the same thing: ‘No jobs’ ‘The market is dead’ ‘Everything’s saturated’ ‘You should’ve started 10 years ago’.”

But they pushed back on the despair. “People get hired every single day. That’s a fact,” they said. “The people who are getting jobs aren’t posting here. The ones who are stuck are the ones who are venting.”

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Their perspective resonated, especially as others chimed in with their experiences. “I got laid off at the beginning of the year and was terrified because I’m here lurking a lot,” one person commented. “Luckily, I’m pretty good at interviewing and landed a [work-from-home] job maybe two weeks after. I never posted about how fast I was able to find work, so what you say is true.”

Others said the negativity isn’t universal across fields. “Tech jobs in education, medical, and finance are booming right now. I moved companies earlier this year and did not have any trouble finding another fully remote position for a significant raise,” one person added.

Still, the thread also highlighted the brutal side of the market. Many shared long stretches of unemployment and feelings of defeat. One mid-level developer said they’d sent out over 100 applications in four weeks and heard back from only five. “I’m not the best interviewee and am a poster child for, ‘if it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.’”

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New graduates, in particular, seemed to bear the brunt of the pain. “Some have literally been unemployed for 2-3 years now,” another person said of recent tech grads. “One of [my friends] is a camp counselor at a coding camp. The other, working IT at a warehousing startup.” He described them as “Smart kids, high 90’s in HS and 3.8 and above GPA in university.”