It likely wouldn’t be much better. It took me six months and hundreds of applications to find a software development position. From what I hear things took a major turn after LLMs got added to the mix. Not to mention, most companies use the AI pre screening and bin the ones that fail, meaning if your resume is a weird format, you could be getting binned simply for a technical fuckup.
Yeah, this is proven by the ultra Christian types who lets their kids die “because it’s what god wants”, or the abusive parents, or the ones who are absent 99% of the time, or the ones who leave their kids in the car to do dumb shit, and on and on.