[PaulHoule]

In my time as a dev I'd have times where I spent literally three days unemployed, other times I got poached by a recruiter when I was working for someone else, and other times where a job hunt has taken between 3 months and a year.

I can't say there is just one strategy that's worked for me: sometimes a side project just gets me hired, sometimes it was about interviewing better, sometimes I have worked remote, other times I have looked for something in my town.

I took this guy's course years ago

https://job-interview-answers.com/

and found it changed the way I think about interviewing completely which for me as a schizotype used to be a huge barrier.