Permanently homeless despite marketable skills

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This is literally my dream!! !

My ultimate goal is to save up and buy raw wooded land and live primitively on my own land.

Have an easy part time job to buy supplies and pay taxes, but live secluded and primitive. But I also grew up country af and miss it.

To the comment about being homeless as a woman-I’ve done it multiple times and yes it’s scary. Always be armed some how and learn what to look for as far as danger-as in ppl lol.

OP- Whatever you’re doing is working bc you’ve been doing it for 16 yrs-you could always try getting a job at a lodge somewhere as maintenance if you’re handy or something like that-non customer service related. Maybe a caretaker of a property??

I did a guided kayak tour down Spokane river in coeur d alene ID one time. He didn’t talk much except explaining the rules. He unloaded the kayaks, explained how to not die lol, and only talked if he needed to-we were doing something wrong/dangerous. Otherwise he was just there to pull someone out of the water if we went upside down.

You don’t have to be able to kayak but I’m sure there are plenty of stuff like that especially in the places where you are climbing and stuff.

I don’t know but I’m super jealous of your lifestyle.

There are upsides and downsides. Biggest upside is being able to leave whenever you want. Biggest downside is being alone.

Where do you get money for this? Like for van repairs, items, food, etc?

I do my own repairs and cook my own food. I'm due for at least one major epic a year. Broke down three times on my last drive. Fuel leak and a grenaded pulley.

If this image doesn't appeal to you....

Why can’t you be a handyman or something?

C++ has changed. There is every 3 years a new standard of that. Was never a good choice for drivers and got kicked out of the Linux kernel completely. C is a constant and for several tasks and drivers still a pretty good choice. Java goes downhill and will be replaced by python more and more. Without Android phones nobody would care about that anymore. ( https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index )

I'm not surprised about any of that. Only reason Java exists is because unis needed a free compiler to give out. Never liked it. IOKit drivers are a subset of C++ and I honestly couldn't give a damn about Linux chaos. Who actually gets paid to write linux drivers anyway