For me personally it ranges from random successful highs to very depressing lows. I have a degree, but I feel I am more self taught (I barely took my degree seriously). With 9 years of experience under my belt, most times interviews are hit/miss for me. I spent time on Leetcode, but sometimes the interviews go well and I pattern match because I have seen that sort of problem. Other days I look like I have no idea what is going on.
It is exhausting, but everywhere I look people say this is the best way so far. I prefer freelancing now because I still love coding, I do it on my downtime, I do it on the weekends. It energises me. Unfortunately I am not good at solving puzzles/IQ tests under 30-60 mins.
I feel your pain. I have tried to sink my teeth into system programming, but everything seems like an information overload.
For now I been trying to use Rust as a way to get into aspects of programming I couldn't before (Raytracing, Editor ), but I do wonder if ever I can crack into system programming.
Nothing against Angular 2+ ,but I have had a horrid experience with the complexity of the framework. I do admit it was mostly my fault since I went into it blind, but coming from a more jquery/(copy paste and hope it works) mindset, I just didn't really pick up the various nuances of the framework.
But I was lucky enough to work in a different project which had React, and it somehow felt more natural to my brain (more JavaScripty I suppose). I have played around even with Svelte and other frameworks as well, but to me personally Angular always stood out as the worst. By no means my personal view on the framework dimnishes its usefulness and I know a lot of people who prefer Angular. But for me personally it wasn't the best choice.
Yes I have noticed the same and I have Firefox well integrated in my workflow, I just had to switch to a chromium based browser only to use Google Meet.
It is exhausting, but everywhere I look people say this is the best way so far. I prefer freelancing now because I still love coding, I do it on my downtime, I do it on the weekends. It energises me. Unfortunately I am not good at solving puzzles/IQ tests under 30-60 mins.