I deleted my LinkedIn account, again, some number of weeks ago. It felt good then, and it feels good now.

The reason why is simple: I don't like being tricked and ripped off. My first deletion was because I was trying to swear off traditional jobs, and that's still a factor; but this time there's that extra bit.

Let's look at what's going on nowadays, eh? Fake accounts, fake posts, fake jobs; and, frankly, a fake value proposition. At what point does this get to be called open fraud? If you're posting a job-opening that isn't real, and in fact you're just trying to scrape for people's professional information, isn't that definitively a scam? Isn't pretending to be someone you're not (a human, in this case) in a business setting regarded as a crime?

All that by itself wouldn't even be all that bad if not for the kafkaesque grind that goes into making it actually function for you as the job-seeking user. So you're telling me I've got to incessantly crank out submissions to opportunities that may well not even exist, in the hundreds at least, for the chance that an automated system I have no way of knowing might filter me through to an actual human who are mazes and obstacle-courses in their own right?

As the kids say, "miss me with that shit."
(Do they still say that? Ah, who cares.)

Taking Action

Enough grousing: what matters is what to do instead!

Best I can think of is a pretty easy-going three-prong strategy:

1. Build a brand/identity by posting content
2. Work directly with human recruiters
3. Sell something directly to someone

Point 1 feeds into 2 and 3, since it gives people something to go off of with you: recruiters will be able to sell you better by knowing you better, and direct customers will be more comfortable buying from you for the same reason. If you want to learn more about this kind of strategy, you're in luck: YouTube's full of people that'll tell you how to do it. I'm not being original at all here.

The trick's in the rub, though. When they say you have to be comfortable with not being good at first and post anyway, that really is what you have to do. What's held me back is that I've felt like being open and honest in my case would be "wrong" somehow. Who wants to hear some bitter hack go on about how actually nothing makes any goddamned sense and never has to begin with?

Answer: You won't know until you start.

Your Audience

You're no more or less of a human being than anyone else, and that means you can be just as effective and valuable as anyone else. Don't sell yourself short. What I use as an example is The Insane Clown Posse: that musical group has been going for 35 years, and one of their core members is worth an estimated 15 million dollars. Two guys made rap songs about an occult circus and romantic dates with a corpse they dug up from the local cemetery, and put scores of their extended family through college.

There's nothing stopping you.
The rules are fake and you really can just do whatever.

Look; I'm still trying to be nice here; but that's only because I don't have a clear target of people who have money, like slurs, and won't require me to get a car. It's only a matter of time before I find them~

You'll find your people too, someday, but good money says you won't find 'em on fucking LinkedIn.