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 an

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.