The time has come. I really need to sort out getting a new job now. I’ve not done any full-time paid work for ages and whilst I’ve achieved an awful lot with the time I’ve had free, the mortgage has to get paid somehow. I don’t think there’s been a single day when I didn’t actually achieve something, often several things, other then when I’ve been ill. That’s over a thousand consecutive days without ever once saying “I just can’t be bothered today. I’m going to veg out and do nothing.”
It’s a bit odd, having to write a CV at this point. I’ve done all sorts of programming and systems admin work over the last twenty years for dozens of clients and it’s all been word-of-mouth. I don’t think I’ve written a CV or that anyone has asked to see one in at least twenty years. Then I’m told I’ll need to put stuff on Linked-In. The horror.
So, if anyone knows of UNIX/Linux-based systems admin or coding work where working from home is possible, by all means get in touch. Something that relates to the environment or that directly helps to improve peoples’ lives would be a bonus. However, moving for work just isn’t feasible in the short term. We have two elderly parents who share our home and are in quite poor health. Trying to move them now, even assuming we could find somewhere suitable, would probably kill them, quite literally.