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?
Learn Arcpy, it's actually pretty simple and literally no one knows how to use it lol.
I was on their forums trying to get answers and ended up writing my own wrapper libraries for building tools using it and am the person everyone goes to for answers now. ESRI has even just straight up taken my code that I've shared and rolled it into releases... I don't even consider myself a great developer, but there's so few competent people actually using it that it's just rotting.
I've actually applied with them to help fix the mess that is arcpy, the library that runs like 90% of web map backends...
This post also 100% doxxes me, hi feds