I Finally Became an Engineer
A year of being ‘unemployed’ taught me more than any corporate job ever did. Here’s the full, unfiltered story — Demant, idiocracy, and why I’m done apologizing for telling people to fuck off.
A year of being ‘unemployed’ taught me more than any corporate job ever did. Here’s the full, unfiltered story — Demant, idiocracy, and why I’m done apologizing for telling people to fuck off.

2026 turned out to be a year of harsh realizations. From bureaucratic nightmares in Spain to the cold math of relocation, here is why walking away from a €60k offer was the only logical choice for a senior engineer.
After 18 months in the ‘cesspool’ of corporate idiocy, I went hunting for a Lead Microelectronics role in Copenhagen. What I found was a circus of ghost jobs, incompetent HR, and a vanishing technical landscape.
🎙️ Audio Version I don’t think I’m the only one who can’t find a job right now. By the time my search passed the two-year mark, I had already realized how broken the system feels. Tools like LinkedIn turned out to be little more than noise—endless scrolling, false hopes, and disappointment. ...