well, i might be in luck. on upwork someone is looking for someone to build an app with solana using rust and anchor. i did a little training with it back in 2022, but the borrow checker was a nightmare. and they were telling me "don't use macros" and the problem was a lot easier with macros doing type coercion, stuff i wouldn't normally do in Go because it requires unsafe and reflection, something i've never been keen on doing because it can break. if i need to convert a byte slice into a slice of 64 bit integers i will just use ... shit it's been a while actually, i might be getting rusty. ahaha. anyway, the thing is, it looks like there isn't a lot of people out there certainly not on upwork who can do this and i know i can ramp up to it in a matter of a few days. having a proper contract means i will be able to plant myself in tbilisi for a month or so and rent a little apartment short term and make lots of cash and be able to do the move to bishkek comfortably. i'd rather be doing nostr or bitcoin stuff but nobody seems to be looking for anyone. so, solana it is. lol.