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Seems a number of these questions pop up every few weeks, so maybe I can get some perspective. I’m 37 and live in Europe. I fell out of society in my teens due to abuse and never managed to get a grip on the working world. After sporadic manual jobs in my late teens I had a breakdown, and I haven’t worked since.

I’ve taken courses over the years on various subjects, and even got part way through a degree from the OPen University. I read for hours a day, and have taught myself basic coding.

I’m thinking that finding work as a developer or any type of IT role after 17 years of not working will be....tough. I do have some hope remaining, or I wouldn’t be making this post.

In my situation what would you do? I have a small amount of money to live on each month, but it only covers the basics. I’ve had to summon the courage to post this, so please have some empathy when replying.

Seems a number of these questions pop up every few weeks, so maybe I can get some perspective.

I’m 37 and live in Europe. I fell out of society in my teens due to abuse and never managed to get a grip on the working world. After sporadic manual jobs in my late teens I had a breakdown, and I haven’t worked since.

I’ve taken courses over the years on various subjects, and even got part way through a degree from the OPen University. I read for hours a day, and have taught myself basic coding.

I’m thinking that finding work as a developer or any type of IT role after 17 years of not working will be....tough. I do have some hope remaining, or I wouldn’t be making this post.

In my situation what would you do? I have a small amount of money to live on each month, but it only covers the basics. I’ve had to summon the courage to post this, so please have some empathy when replying.

Some general comments I have read so far have been to read wah and twisted web. To focus on web bugs and bug bounties, how much coding knowledge is required to find something? Are there any researchers out there that dont now much about coding?

I read through some blog posts by Aaron Swartz and in one of them, which I can't find now, he wrote about wanting to be a good writer above being a good developer. If the choice had to be made and you could choose between being thought of as a good writer or a good coder, which would you choose? Why?