I'm hitting 6 months of unemployment and funds are running dry. My journey into becoming a Stock Marxist is going... ok I guess? I'm learning a lot and know so much more than I did in December, but the money isn't there to prove it.
So I'm looking for something to do that will not make me go insane. I had a temp job that ended in November, and before that I was working in a Software Dev role that caused my autistic self a lot of grief. My mind was in a dark place. It still is kind of there TBH.
I don't want to get back into software. The tech changes too much, the frameworks methodolies and endless meetings are frustrating, AND because everyone was told to "learn to code" I have close to 0% shot my resume gets picked out of a pile of 1000s of other applicants. I've been branching out into more data analysis/database type work and there's an AI tool I'm paying for to automate applying. I know it's not what I'm supposed to do, but I also know spending all day filling out job apps is not where I want to be either.
What other options are out there? Things I'm considering:
Rover (pet sitting)
Data Annotation (AI training)
Flipping things I can find for free or at thrift stores?
Fiverr? Help people with their WordPress sites or something...
IDK, any other ideas?
Totally agree about the endless meetings and never feeling good enough, always chasing a new technology, never satisfied.
I think its insane that we as engineers are supposed to sit in open offices and im on my way to quit my job also. Office politics, people are rewarded for being in office rather then being productive at home. And the commute, the colleagues, everything is exhausting.
I've been starting to look at how to escape the matrix and stop this madness somehow. I cant do this until im 65 and gets sick and old. I wont.