Are you paying well enough for the current market?

Eh idk, medicine has its own challenges. I was a premed years ago. I’m thankful I made the change to swe. Grinding leetcode is still a great investment in the long run as long as you keep skills up to date and are a competent engineer.

Tech is such an important facet of our lives these days the amount of work to do outweighs whatever was around in the early 2000s.

.NET core/C# is pretty dope though and its the most widely used in fortune 500s in the backend aside from Java. It’s much less verbose than Java and any Junior engineer can pick it up if they’ve worked with OOP based languages or even JavaScript.

Job listings in your local area

No offense OP, but that’s a lot of money for a website with poor UX and no users. Take the money offered.

It has no brand recognition. You’re not even on the market first of all.

You should sell the swag. Apparently there are people across the country who buy/collect corporate swag. Especially swag of ones that are dead startups or failed businesses.

I suspect that, like many things the right person would want but which don't have a lot of intrinsic value, connecting them to someone who would actually put cash on the barrel is probably more trouble than it's worth.

That's what eBay and internet aggregation is for.

I have sold on eBay and it's a pain in the neck especially for a random one-off sale, and I'm probably not going to get >$100 for a random box of tech swag--which is what it would have to be for it to even start being worthwhile. I also have a big stack of laserdiscs. Same thing.

Plenty of companies that pay well and have a good wlb not named Amazon

I’ve stop buying name brand on Amazon (Nike, Apple products, Hanes etc) a few years ago due to poor quality assurance and potential for counterfeit — cue joke about how Nike and counterfeit Nike are made in the same sweatshop. I would happily buy counterfeit Nike but only if it’s heavily discounted. I don’t want to be tricked into buying second hand clothes, useless junk or counterfeit products. However you bring up a good point, some of products on Amazon from Asia are just fine if you’re looking for basics like T shirts and Athletic wear. But outside of that would highly suggest people buy electronics and brand name clothing elsewhere.

i guess your comment really brings up what you should be buying on amazon. tcl roku tv for example, had one for 6 years no issues until i broke it moving. household goods ive always had good luck, as well as some basic decorations/furniture. whole foods delivery, yes please. i simply dont understand where the distaste comes from besides political feelings towards the company.