404 Job Not Found

Verse 1

Woke up, logged in, checked the board again

Ten thousand roles, but none for mortal men

“Rockstar dev,” “must love stress”

Fifty skills required, zero checks

Pre-Chorus

I built the cloud before it had a name

Now I’m coding side quests in a browser game

Chorus

404! Career not found

Ghosted by a startup that’s shutting down

Talented and broke, it's a damn disgrace

While billionaires burn cash into space

Verse 2

Zoom interviews with kids half my age

Asking me if I "scale well under rage"

Got more uptime than their whole stack

But I’m still refreshing Greenhouse, back to back

Pre-Chorus

I could lead your team, or write your core

Instead I’m debugging my self-worth score

Chorus

Four-oh-Four! Career not found

Laid off, paid off, now I’m burnout-bound

Decades of wisdom sit on ice

While the CEO’s yacht hits Paradise

Bridge – Shouted

“Must be willing to work for free!”

“Show us passion, don’t ask for a fee!”

“10 years Go, 10 years Rust,

And a TikTok reel — or you're not one of us!”

Final Chorus

Four-oh-four! Career not found

Tech’s got talent but it ain’t sticking ‘round

Idle minds, idle hands

In the land of open-office scams

Outro

Another day without any pay!

Reboot my dignity!