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  • roux [he/him, they/them]M
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    6 days ago

    In the mean time, for anyone else in my shoes? What did you do to get out of the cycle of unemployment/underemployment?

    If you have a hobby that you can potentially turn into a profession and make your own hours, that would be a way to go. I'm trying to do that with web dev and after 4 months of nothing I might have actually scored a project with our local NAACP which could b ea pretty big deal for me and open the door for a lot of potential clientele.

    While I'm working on that I'm currently working part time at a 3rd party delivery contractor for Amazon so I have some money coming in. I'm hoping I can eventually quit this and do the website thing full time soonish. This is all after about 25 years and 30+ jobs and being unemployed more than employed during that time because no one wants to accommodate for neurodivergent people.