Ask HN: A plea to help me help my father

A person writes that their mother died in a car accident and they regret years of postponing visits, and that while delivering the news they learned their father was given two years to live ten months earlier. Determined not to repeat the same mistake, they want to spend the next year fulfilling their widowed father's dream of a cross‑country road trip that he sacrificed to raise them. They cannot afford to do this: the odd contract work they relied on has dried up in part because of LLM-driven changes, and their savings are insufficient, so they are urgently seeking a way to finance a year of travel while caring for their father.

They appeal for a remote, flexible job they can do while on the road, emphasizing they are an unconventional candidate with no high‑school diploma or traditional employment history but a deep, self‑taught software background. They program 12+ hours daily, have built projects across embedded assembly, bare‑metal devops, Android and web development, and can both use and craft chatbots but prefers hand‑written code. They offer a portfolio, promise to learn any required skills quickly, and ask for a chance despite an anonymized profile and resume that would be auto‑rejected. Contact info is in their profile.