I’ve also been unemployed longer than I wanted to twice and had to swallow my pride and work on someone’s legacy to pay the bills. Switching the rockstar mentality with more humility and a sense that I’ve been very lucky was important.

Sounds like you could find a Scala job or a Rust job in your capital. They’re less rare than Haskell jobs.

As for advice: get obsessed, get good at something, don’t wait for people to pay you to excel at the tools you eventually want to master. I toyed around with Haskell for 10 years in my spare time before using it in production.