It has been a while since I applied anywhere.... but they all want degrees and professional experience last time I looked :(
Idk maybe I should start applying again sometime. It's not like I have a resume to show them beyond retail/supply chain work though lol. I don't even have contributions to open-source projects to show tbh. I never finish any of my projects.
I actually have worked on a few open-source projects but I never submitted my patches... then I forget about them and they get lost to time lol. On stock OpenBSD (which I run), my desktop PC's audio is kinda broken (long story, can link you a post I made about it if you're curious) so I had to patch the OpenBSD kernel Intel HDA (corpo acronym but the last letter means "audio") driver to make it work properly (had to add a whole new mode of operation for what I think is probably broken hardware, like my motherboard manufacturer fucked it up). I'm still maintaining that patch on my own lol, I need to submit it.
It's good advice and I don't mind, I'm just maining untreated ADHD rn, maybe that's why I don't do these things
As for my own projects.... these grand and often probably ridiculous ideas for software (recent example: video game as a filesystem) come into my head and I hack on them obsessively for a while and never finish them because of the scale :(
It's pretty much the worst kind of house to have, enjoyable only by the ultra wealthy who visit every once in a while and leave it otherwise uninhabited. Having to take a fucking boat to get groceries or do anything sucks ass, saltwater-air is bad for basically everything humans make, etc etc.
Being a lighthouse keeper definitely has a certain appeal, but yeah I definitely wouldn't want it to be my lighthouse that I'm expected to pay to have maintained lol
dude that'd be fucked like what kidn of business plan would you even need, like what you're gonna row out into a storm to demand payment from every ship nearby