>building a portfolio of reliablity That sounds excessively intimidating. The issue is that if you haven't had a job in a couple months, you can get tagged as

>building a portfolio of reliablity That sounds excessively intimidating. The issue is that if you haven't had a job in a couple months, you can get tagged as unemployable. There's no point in telling people what you did six months ago if they are going to assume that you can't do anything (that you're not doing at the moment). All you have to do to get past that is subordinate everything else to being employed for the moment. It's a lesson in prioritization. You can get on the treadmill nearly as fast as you got off of it. At least if you think 6 months to a year is reasonable speed.