Economy doesn’t benefit you presently unfortunately.

Somehow before shit really hit the fan I was able to land a non developer role at a software company which only asks you to come in twice a week. Looking to move into development at the company, but from the outside software Dev roles are super flooded with applicants right now.

Whatever you do, your chances for remote work are better if you get in with a small company of 10 to 20 people.

Yea, the drying out of the skin with the alcohol reduces the amount of blood, but there is always going to be some. Cutting straight across is a very good way to avoid future issues as well.

Go to a doctor.

I am not a doctor. You should not do anything I describe herein and should consult a medical professional.

I fixed them myself a few times on each foot, trialing and erroring until I found a solution that since using it, has worked well for me in every case.

Note in less extreme cases, you can try to cut a little V in the middle-end of the nail. In my cases, it was much too bad for this to work.

I sanitize the toe and an x-acto knife with a new blade (pointed tip, triangular in shape) that has been cleaned of any foreign substances (such as the oil they sometimes come covered in) with 99% isopropyl and begin cutting a straight, vertical line on the side of the nail that has the issue, as close to the edge as I find reasonable. I go very slow and as light as I can, tracing that line over and over, as I don’t want an x-acto knife plunging into my toe itself. Eventually I make my way through the nail, but the nail is still connected under the cuticle. From this point onward, every day, I unravel cotton balls into strips and wet them thoroughly with alcohol, and then secure a strip or thick, folded pad to my toe with medical tape. The cotton should be very wet, but not dripping wet.

I found that regular bandaids were not effective due to adhesion issues and because they lack the ability to hold enough alcohol in their padding. Each day the skin around the nail will begin to die a little bit and dry out. I use sanitized forceps and the sanitized x-acto to cut a bit more and to pull on the edge of the nail each day (in an up and out fashion and occasionally away from the toe), but try not to force it too much. Eventually the nail breaks and comes off. Where it was dug into the flesh of the toe, there will be a small hole. At this time I sanitize the entire toe and the wound with alcohol. Finally, and the most important part of this process - I do the same process as previously described with the cotton, alcohol, and tape to bandage the toe every day, or twice per day as needed until the nail grows back in correctly. If this is not done, it is likely it will grow back ingrown and you will be at step 1 again.

In my experience, I had to keep it santized with alcohol and very dry. I found that taping it up wet with products such as polysporin prevented healing and would result in the nail becoming ingrown when it grew back in, as well as causing pain and increased inflamation. Using alcohol, day to day the pain lessened and it was able to grow back in normally each time. Needless to say as well, but you want to stay off of that foot as much as possible as walking on it during this process can lead to inflammation.

This process has taken me anywhere between 3 days to 2 weeks depending on how badly ingrown it was.

When it gets fixed it is great, there is almost instant relief from the pain.

I’ve been interested in this subject for a while and have a few recommendations.

Stanley Thermos. It could get hit by a fucking train and would still outlive you. Don’t recommend putting cofee/milk products etc in them though because it will make the gasket smell. Excellent water container though.

Double edged straight razor. The handle piece is virtually indestructible. I bought a package of like 500 blades for like 30 dollars and haven’t had to buy new ones for actual years. Fun fact as well, once you learn to use one it’s better for sensitive skin because you’re only dragging one razor across your skin per stroke instead of 5 or 7 or whatever the fuck the “better” ones have. Can confirm the “more blades = better” shit is just pure predatory marketing.

Buck knife. Multi tools are cool but if you tend to use the knife often, invest in a higher quality knife and stones to sharpen it. Sharpening stones (not the crap ceramic stuff they try to sell) will last a lifetime and will also keep all your kitchen knives beautiful for years. While you’re up to it, get a piece of raw leather, like the back of of an old belt, and use it as a strop to polish off the blade when you’re done sharpening, it really does make the cut smoother.

People say Mag light, but I’d personally recommend Olight as well for flashlights. The Olight Baton 4 is a ~600 lumen adjustable brightness flashlight with strobe which will blind you if you aren’t careful and its smaller than a pill bottle and comes with a reversible clip and inset magnet in case you need to stick it somewhere to keep the light steady.

A graphite metal “magic” pencil. Instead of using normal graphite, these metal bodied pencils have end pieces you screw in as a tip, are erasable, and one nib takes forever to run out, something like 5 pencils. They dont draw as dark as a regular pencil due to the hardness but for general usage they are handy.

Mighty plugs ear plugs. Want to know what it’s like to be deaf? Buy these. They aren’t too costly, completely seal the ear, and I only have to get a new package once every few years. They’re so effective I had to purchase an alarm clock built for deaf people which shakes my mattress instead of making a sound because I couldn’t hear any normal alarm clock after I started using these. This combination is unbeatable if you have awful neighbors or live on a busy street with night traffic.

Any self winding watch. Stop fucking around with button cell batteries and evolve. If it’s cheap, that’s probably better, if it gets scratched you don’t have to care. Seiko is a good brand in my experience.

If you’re into camping get a decent mid sized carving hatchet. I have a mid sized Hultafors swedish steel one. People like splitting axes because they do what they’re advertised to do, but theyre huge, heavy, and you cant carve or skin with them. A lighter smaller carving axe will do the same job splitting a log if you baton it with a medium sized stick. If you need something bigger to cut down a tree, go for a curved folding saw to bring with the hatchet. The Silky Saw Big Boy is great for that. Also buy a wool blanket. That shit will keep you warm in -35 C if you use it correctly. Also tents are neat but cumbersome, instead invest in a tarp and learn to make a lean to/other tarp configurations in combination with a ground sheet. If you expect you’ll be facing inclement or extremely wet weather, get an oilskin tarp (or make one yourself its literally just a cotton sheet which you have ran through a few dryer cycles as hot as possible, and then soaked through in a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits and hung outside until completely dry. Don’t put an open flame near it at any point in that process).

I probably have a bunch more, but can’t think of them off the top of my head.