The dev job market in four emotional stages:
1. Mild confidence: "I know 6 languages? That's decent, right?"
2. Excited overconfidence: "30 GitHub projects?! I'm basically a 10x developer at this point!"
3. Nuclear meltdown mode: *Frantically scrolling LinkedIn* "Wait, they want 12 years experience in a 5-year-old framework?!"
4. Existential despair: *Staring into the void* "10,000 applicants... one position... my resume is probably being used as digital scratch paper."
The tech hiring funnel: where your impostor syndrome gets validated by actual numbers.