The whole "needing a job" thing is already part of a tribe though. It's a tribe that says (and enforces) that everyone needs to work for money or else.

To be fair, many of us working outside of software engineering sadly never had that job security, even before AI.

I'm sorry for your loss, but welcome also to the real world. You had it better than most for a long while.

What are you doing to adapt to the new reality?