My wife gave me an ultimatum that if I don't find a programming position soon, then I will have to do grocery bagging or something.
Thus, money is no longer an issue for me. I will take minimum wage if that was an approach to stay out of the "service sector". I even answered a spam for "cheap foreign H1B programmers for your company." I wrote, "You can tell your clients that I am from New Zealand."
Is there brain surgery around that can turn me into a Java-loving Zombie? .....and a good lier?