About me - I was employed on a long-term contract, which ended in 2015. Had no idea what to do in 2016 and, as far as I was concerned, was a complete professional failure. But at least I had financial reserves (yay for unions!) I started crawling a government website to open data that should be truly open. Soon I created a bot network to open data and, for the first time in my life, felt real nice about a programming project I was doing. I created a website showing some disturbing analysis on urban life using only open data. That project caught some attention, which led me to some very interesting freelance work. Enough money so I could afford living expenses. Got diagnosed with OCD and anxiety disorder. Taking meds, doing behavioural therapy and it is working wonders.

Fallback - Anxiety is hard. Not enough freelance work. Financial reserves are dwindling. I'm already looking out for jobs. Probably won't get remote work. Definitely not wanting to go back to an open floor office and all the huge pile of anxiety it brings.