Yeah, that was 100% his issue at the beginning. He was laid off in one of the early post-covid waves, but he certain he was worth X and not willing to consider a pay cut. And then Meta and Microsoft and Salesforce, etc., all start laying off huge waves of people with much better resumes that he...
I have no programming skills (my worst grade in college by far was for intro to programming) but I have a family member who worked as a programmer for mid-sized technology service company for like 5 years, and for a couple of smaller companies before that. He was laid off two years ago and has...
GURPS - now that is a system I haven't thought about in a long time. Most of my time was spent playing Shadowrun but I really appreciated how much flexibility they had in GURPS. Seemed like they had an extra sourcebook for absolutely everything.
I tried this a while back. I think I spent more time trying to figure out how to set up my account and pay for a month of service than I did actually playing the game.
Non dev - I usually don't mind overdone tropes but the lack of attention to simple basics (spellcheck, sentence structure) can be a deal breaker for me. It's a really low bar.