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Sorry if what I'm about to say is rude, please file that under me being ignorant rather malicious.

Given your struggles to get a job and your very valuable experience, what's holding you back from going as a contractor / setting up your own shop?

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That is the route I am now going. Until my last breath I'm going to build a sw company and hire 100's of people. Like all companies I'll have a page on my site that says how moral and inclusive we are except that we won't be hypocrites like most (all?) other sw companies. This is my delusional dream.

What I have found is that it can be much easier to find remote work that pays fairly poorly. Usually startups and the like. There is a lot of it.

Can't afford to live in the US anymore but Mexico is working out pretty well.

I've always liked the idea of a consulting firm that specialized in hiring old people. I wonder if there's enough work to keep something like that fed if one were to specialize in 'obsolete' tech and market at a national level.

Heck, to the right client, that one i860 or C80 programmer might be worth gold. Either that, or just do a highly competent job at embedded programming generally.

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