How is this even possible? 20 year olds with no experience can easily get a job after just 10 applications (in a low paid profession, but still), yet you as an experienced software engineer can't get one after over a hundred applications?

For a country like America that prides itself with "hustling", working for 12 hours, doing 2 jobs (without paid maternity leave or even paid holidays) and having the most anti-humane possible "9 to 5" system, while marriages that last for a lifetime are almost nonexistent, it's pretty unlikely that occupation is only the fourth and family the first.