This is silly, but also begs the sillier question why we aren't bioengineering plants to produce rocket fuel

Fluid's website is https://fluid.so and Fluid Link is available for download at https://fluid.so/fluid-link

Fluid is currently free (until tomorrow?) and Fluid Link is free to try up to 15 minutes at a time, with no restrictions on functionality. There's a discord server and in-app support chat for support questions, and videos demonstrating Installation and usage on YouTube.

Vue/React/Python are all still huge but they're commodity skills today. Differentiating will help with the jobseeking.

2. Sell or trade in the desktop for a laptop. Portability and space is your friend. Join a local Facebook "buy nothing" group, and ask for a trade or someone's spare old laptop. Any mobility improvement is a win.

3. Immediately make a free account for Salesforce's Trailhead program https://trailhead.salesforce.com/ and start learning everything you can. Badges can be added to your linkedin, and you should go heavy down the path of force.com development if you can.

4. Once you have a few badges, polish up your linkedin (and resume) and start spamming recruiters for salesforce positions.

The ERP/CRM world pays very well but almost all platforms have a stupidly high barrier to entry, EXCEPT Salesforce. You could have a $100k/yr job in a few months if you follow this path, and then branch out to Oracle or NetSuite or SAP from here.

edits (consolidating advice here for posterity):

I should add that ERP/CRM consulting is largely remote friendly and your prospective employers/consulting firms will probably not give a rip where you live. They never did for me.

Find a coworking space (NOT a chain one like WeWork) in your town. Talk to the owner and explain your situation, ask for a month or two discount while you get your bearings and attend every meetup they have or know about. Meet everyone, tell your story, share your skills. A small community will help take care of you in ways a Chamber of Commerce chapter will not.

If you are not religious, look for an Oddfellows chapter. They may be a resource to you in a similar way as a church congregation.

And if you have skills but they are outdated, you're now competing with every unemployed junior, fresh grad, and old coder on the market. Update your skill set, and ideally focus on skills that are in higher demand and with higher barrier to entry or with a captive audience/market. Differentiating will help with jobseeking.

For extra side income, attend garage/yard/rummage sales and focus on books. Books are great to flip, because you can immediately appraise the quality, scan the ISBN number to find the going rate, and only buy it to flip if it's worth enough.

All of the above was easy to implement in Rust

However it also made me very strict and opinionated about formatting. One of the main downsides of parinfer comes when you have to interact with someone else's poorly indented or opinionated (wrongly) formatting that goes against the clojure style guide. Parinfer can then ruin otherwise working code because things are out of alignment. To fix this, I set up a function to force format files on open, which mostly works but then for the longest time made me the source of a lot of white space commits. It also struggles with egregiously long files.

Thankfully I eventually got my team on board with force formatting all files and treating non standard formatting as linting errors. We also cut down the largest files one of the other devs made, and that helped a lot.

CIDER and nREPL is better tech than IEX though. I live in both and Clojure is much more enjoyable.

School is about teaching your brain how to retain information in general, so you can retain what you need to use.

I dream of a 100% tax rate on second homes, foreign ownership, and corporations owning single family homes and condos. Or even better, make it illegal. But any politician who pushes such a bill would immediately get removed from office and the law repealed.

And with Google searches the vast majority of results are going the opposite way: creating a GraphQL API from a real SQL schema.

It's terrible