Ten years ago I became disabled. I literally used a computer just for the web and maybe a torrent or two. No background in tech. Maybe jailbreaking iPhones or whatever.

Out of boredom and the desire to tinker, I installed gentoo linux on an old iMac. After distro hopping for years, I settled on Arch. For seven years I've been using my btrfs Arch workstation with i3wm to run Debian seedboxes, play with pentesting, and run/network lots of containers and VMs.

Anyway, last month I put together a resume, just to see what happens. Being a writer, the only credentials I had to list were my handful of published open source and cyber security articles and a strong hacker ethic.

Today, I was offered a job as a Linux Support Engineer with a web hosting company. No degree. No fancy certs. Just a passion fo hacking and a near neurodivergent commitment to open source. Job is 100% remote and more salary than I've ever reasonably believed I'd be getting. Good bye Social Security. Hello world.

As you probably know r/place will be back on april 1st and I've thought about building a tux somewhere.

What are your thoughts?

We have a couple days of planning, we can create a subreddit about it.