Monotoko

I sort of stumbled onto a consultancy job two years ago in cryptocurrency that's sadly just come to an end... going back into an office full time feels like a step back at this point.

I also don't really want to be anywhere near cryptocurrency for a while... and to make matters worse I live halfway around the world from my home in a country that doesn't speak English - I'm a reliable remote worker but I know that's going to put people off, how to alleviate concerns here?

I'm planning to fly home tomorrow, I rented somewhere for a month and I'm already printing business cards and trying to get myself out there on local subreddits. Perhaps other social media too?

Anything I've missed? How can I advertise myself out there? I absolutely kick ass on cloud migration and architecture (and while I know they're not everything, had the certifications to prove it).

Sysadmin stuff, troubleshooting and cloud work was my thing for a decade but I'm trying to catch up with two years worth of developments as well - I can also code but it's mostly hobby stuff.

So I'm currently in Shanghai and tried to ping 1.1.1.1, and surprisingly I got a response!

* 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=3.46 ms

* I get a 19ms response from my 4G mobile network

* I get no response from a server in Hong Kong.

I looked it up and apparently it's a APNIC research prefix, so I decided to do a traceroute and got this:

traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 gateway (172.20.0.1) 0.370 ms 0.204 ms 0.443 ms 2 27.115.97.209 (27.115.97.209) 1.166 ms 1.157 ms 1.150 ms 3 112.64.249.197 (112.64.249.197) 3.351 ms 3.350 ms 3.343 ms 4 58.247.223.18 (58.247.223.18) 4.203 ms 4.204 ms 4.197 ms 5 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 5.927 ms 5.926 ms 5.919 ms

My question is why on earth have they routed 1.1.1.1? If I go to 1.1.1.2 it goes beyond the city and fails somewhere upstream.