Work on your network. Apply for jobs that interest you. Interview. Get job.
Interviews are subjective, and what I've seen recently is the expectation is that you solve Leetcode questions within 10-15 mins with the optimum solution (yes, this was told to me my several recruiters). Sure, so basically you're asking me to memorize as many Leetcode optimum solutions as I can.
No thanks, if you want to hire Leetcode monkeys go ahead and see how that works out. On top of this, when you add concious and unconcious bias what are your chances of being hired?
That is, I think this somewhat describes me too. However, I don't know as that I can give the advice of "ignore practicing interviews."
That is to say, it's a kind of meta imposter's syndrome. "I'm not even doing the right things to make myself good enough to put myself in a position to get a better job!" Which keeps people from even trying.
That's not easy. I work remote, and live in a place where there just isn't a network available. That would leave online and I usually just hang out on HN.
Thoughts welcome!