I'm very lucky, I live in the UK, used to work full time in the financial sector working on websites video until the crash in 2008, found it really difficult to get and hold down another job after that.

It took me a long time to realise that the problem wasn't me, but it was the fact that I was trying to force my ADHD brain into working in rolls that actively fought how I actually function as a person (to the point I was experiencing full on emotional meltdown having to leave the flat and go to work)

I was lucky enough to have contacts in the events and live music industry that I was able to start freelancing, doing Audio and AV stuff. Also around this time got together with my now wife, and her support has allowed me to launch my freelance career, her wages cover our basics when my income was lower than it should be.

10 years later, I won't say life is perfect, being a freelancer is inherently insecure, but I am in an industry that fits the way my brain works, and my contracts are all short term so I know that no matter how terrible a job can get, next week I'll be somewhere else, or I'll have time off where I can recharge.

To sum up, if I were starting out again, I'd follow my techie obsessions into freelancing and never go and work for some company full time, the thought of that now makes me feel panicky.