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I was doing mechanical drafting (which mostly wound up being steel detailing), so we used tech (I had a gaming laptop at work) but it's not really a "tech" job. It took me about six years of unemployment to get that job, and I wound up saving nothing because I was too dazed from work to even wash my clothes or cook regularly. I needed around 12 hours of sleep to "recover" each day and spent a lot of the weekend just in a stupor.
I think it did give me some experiences and allow me to reflect on what I should avoid, which is unfortunately a lot of things. In the general mega, someone suggested kitchen work, but I either go completely mute or completely lock up if someone yells at me (or I feel like they are), so kitchen work is probably a complete non-starter. Which, given that at least some clients are like that, mean I can't really do client facing stuff either.