My Story as a Homeless Developer
As the author discovered, reliable transportation and a permanent residence are often prerequisites for many office jobs. However, I do know that in Iowa there are <i>many</i> other kinds of jobs, lots of which would pay a wage sufficient to get back on one&#x27;s feet, and have more lenient requirements.  Perhaps the author needs to get <i>any</i> job vs. a programming job?  Establishing a place to live, getting consistent income, and <i>then</i> going after the programming job would be a better idea perhaps?  Sucks to take a step back, but sometimes that&#x27;s the only way to go forward.<p>I have a family member going through this same thing and struggling with similar issues.  The author is right, it won&#x27;t be easy to rise above the situation they find themselves in, but the key thing is to stop making bad decisions and take small but incremental steps to improve.  Big bang &quot;remote programming job&quot; might not be in the cards.  But farm laborer could be.  Which may be a step in that direction.