[thedracle]

Now is the time to hone your skills in a highly in-demand area, with little competition.

Get Linux on your computer, study the Linux kernel, and learn about EBPF.

Write some monitoring software using EBPF, learn all about it. Learn about the Linux Kernel, and LDD.

Then apply for jobs in these areas, be ambiguous about your on-the-job experience.

Speak competently when you get the interview about the tech, the companies that are hiring for these skills are desperate to hire for them, there aren't people with these skills falling out of trees.

It's a bad time in the industry, but unemployment is something like 2.3%. There is a position out there for you.