I once took an Uber and got into a conversation with the driver. He told me that he used to work in tech but was currently unemployed and struggling to find work. I told him that I experienced the same thing recently but found a contract job (eg, Infosys/Cognizant/etc) by actually answering the fly-by-night recruiter spam emails. Yeah it wasn’t the best but it paid the bills. I told him I was confident that he could find a similar job instead of driving for Uber. His response was totally dismissive “I don’t want a contract job, I want to be a full time employee.” Sometimes beggars can’t be choosers.