Ask HN: Advice for staying in the job market while homeless?
Hello HN,<p>I&#x27;ve lived as a &quot;hand to mouth&quot; freelancer for a while and can no longer keep up with rent due to clients shutting down. I have over a dozen job applications under way, but obviously progress is slow and even if I do get an offer it won&#x27;t pay off until I&#x27;m &quot;on the streets&quot;.<p>I do have good friends who will let me stay on their couches for some time. Given the circumstances I&#x27;m afraid that I&#x27;ll be stuck in this situation until my food budget is used up, at which point I don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>Frankly I feel like throwing myself into the river right now, but obviously that is not helping anyone.<p>I have a fairly niche skill set that no one wants. My specialty is building and running complex on-prem infrastructure (in the petabytes and teraflops range), though in the recent years I&#x27;ve been doing DevOps in the cloud like everyone else. I&#x27;m also contributing to a wide range of free software projects, but no potential employers seem to care about that.<p>I don&#x27;t even know what I&#x27;m asking here. A cry for help obviously, but with no room for actual advice! Probably I just want someone to say &quot;it&#x27;s going to be okay&quot; because I can&#x27;t see it myself.<p>Virtual hug, anyone?  :-(