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Certainly sounds like it. I was all excited thinking 'hey, I need a job! I have tons of writing samples and relatively few credentials! This sounds worth looking into!' And then comes the location thing and I think, 'Do I really want to take the risk of things not working out, having spent all my money, and being trapped out in Palo Alto a long way from my nearest relative and a continent away from home?' And my enthusiasm cools.
Your website suggests that you can code. Any particular reason why you are not seeking employment in that field?
Because my best language is Haskell, and when I compare my Haskell skills to Haskellers I know who got jobs doing Haskell, I come off very badly.
Haskell programmers have a reputation for being very smart. Feels like you could learn Python or Scala, be at least a medium sized fish in that pond, and get paid twice as much as writing would get you.
You aren't saying anything I haven't told myself many times. But if I had fixed my akrasia and learned Python, do you think I'd still be busy here? Writing is at least something I don't have much problem doing.
Gotcha.