Things are looking up. Sure, I have an interview with a talent agency and an insurance company, which will pay me although I don't really want to work for them; I also have an interview/training session with a psychiatric-social-work agency (in another state) which will let me work from home. And it would be, in essence, a help-desk position.

IOW, apart from doing back-end system tweaks and fulfilling requests by providers to have their files retrieved and altered, I'd be fielding calls from people saying everything from "I forgot my password" to "I spilled coffee on my keyboard and now it's all sticky" to "My computer doesn't boot and makes a clicking noise, am I screwed?"

(The answers to these questions are"Here you go, I reset it", "Go to the IT office and get a new one", and "Yes", respectively.)

This sounds like a fun job.