You were disabled and realize it is not getting better, and no one seems to be able to fix the issue. You’re stuck laying down most of the day, you have enough mobility to function at home, but anything outside of home leaves you in bad shape beyond your control where you are not professionally functional. What do you do to earn a living and survive?

This is not a hypothetical for me.

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    5 months ago

    Make projects for a portfolio, throw them on a public GitHub repo and shop that around to employers.

    Make sure to have neat, commented and mostly polished code that covers a decent breadth of topics. Like authentication or low level hardware handling.

    Also try your hand at submitting contributions (and getting them accepted) to larger open source projects and point to those as well

    NGL, the employment scene for junior devs…isn’t the best rn, expect to have to put in hundreds of applications with few if any call backs for a while. BUT companies are always hiring for good hardware devs junior or not, so you might get lucky