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I hear you with the health bit - if I weren't self employed I doubt any employer would have had the patience to sit through several years of erratic attendance,

I hear you with the health bit - if I weren't self employed I doubt any employer would have had the patience to sit through several years of erratic attendance, and it's been hard enough picking myself back up even with work to go back to, so I empathise with your position - I've been broke and hopeless before, too - serendipity usually strikes when you expect it least. Useful doesn't equate to validity - and the fact that you're able to think in such empathic terms suggests that you are more useful than you might think. Also, plenty of employers won't look at a gap and rule you out - big, autocratic miserable places will, but smaller shops usually care more about humans as people, and you might have more luck. You based in the uk? What sort of sysadmin/security experience have you got?

throwaway76931 11y ago
I've worked mostly for charities and non-profit organisations in the past - I spent about three-four years working at a charity that provided hosting and audio streaming services to other organisations to generate income. It's a pretty standard Linux sysadmin skillset - we were a LAMP CentOS shop primarily, we virtualised with OpenVZ and subsequently VMWare, nothing too out-of-the-ordinary, just general solid administration skills.
- madaxe_again 11y ago
  Those sound like totally transferable skills - and if you've experience on the security side of things, it's worth knowing that the industry is desperate for anyone who is willing to have "information security" as a core part of their role. Chin up though, as glib as it sounds - being dead never solved anything for anybody, and sometimes it takes finding yourself in a really shitty, despairing place to see the way forwards. You'll make it, no matter how grim it looks today.