Your resume looks a lot like mine. Just replace the 18 by 19 and change a few details and we could be twins. It is incredibly hard to find contracts and jobs.

Your resume looks a lot like mine. Just replace the 18 by 19 and change a few details and we could be twins. It is incredibly hard to find contracts and jobs. "Normal" resumes let you slot into something at this time in your career where everybody knows what they are getting. With you, it's a risk -- at your best you will be brilliant and double their revenue, at your worst you could destroy the company in a year. Nobody wants to take on that kind of risk, even though it might be the best hiring decision they ever make, so your resume will be passed over. Every single time. It's not that you don't want to fit in to corporate life: you probably genuinely want to get a job right now so that you can have some assurance of income and stability in case you get sick, asset protection, etc. etc. It's just that, well... I predict that you just simply won't be able to, no matter how hard you try; no matter how important it is to you to keep a job or a contract. You won't even recognise what it is that you are doing that causes friction and problems. It's another universe, and you haven't lived in that universe enough to absorb its norms and culture. You are an alien. What I did after failing on the "get a job" route: I put together enough "product stuff" quickly that I was able to get a buy-out and then act in a senior role in the buying company for a while. A year in a corporate role, and you'll remember why you never wanted that life 18 years ago. So, no, this route doesn't work either and I don't really have any answers to your problem yet. Sorry. Gig platforms might work for you, because then nobody needs to know how old you are or what else you can do. Are you sure you can't scale or grow your consulting/development/training business? Just have a coffee with every single customer you've ever dealt with that remembers you and see what happens. It will be easier than trying to get a job or a long-term contract. Feel free to message me to talk further.